The IAAF U18 Championships in Athletics (until 2015 known as IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics) was a global
athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competi ...
event comprising
track and field
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events for competitors who were 17 or younger (
youth
Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood ( maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as being a young adult. You ...
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Under-18). The event was organized by
International Association of Athletics Federations
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for ...
(IAAF). It was held biennially from 1999 to 2017.
The name change and cancellation
In the 206th IAAF Council Meeting, held after the
2016 Summer Olympics
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, the council decided to conclude the world championship for under-18 athletes after the 2017 event. The decision was made with the intention of improving under-18 competitions at continental level instead. The competition was renamed to the IAAF World U18 Championships in November 2015, though ultimately only the 2017 competition used this title.
The competition was the under-18 counterpart to the
World U20 Championships, which are for athletes who are 19 years of age or under in the year of competition.
Editions
Championships records
Key:
Boys
Girls
All-time medal table
*''Correct as of 2017 edition''
;Notes
Independent Athletes were not included in the official medal table.
See also
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Youth (athletics)
Youth is a category of athletics in which athletes compete under the age of 18 years. Countries all around the world compete in athletics. World Youth Athletics Competitions are held every 2 years which contain the best Youth competitors in the w ...
*
World Para Athletics Junior Championships
The World Para Athletics Junior Championships are a biennial Paralympic athletics event organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). It features athletics events contested by athletes with phys ...
References
External links
Official IAAF WU18Ch sitefrom GBR Athletics
{{Records in athletics
Under-18 athletics competitions
Recurring sporting events established in 1999
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2017
U18
World youth sports competitions
Defunct athletics competitions
Biennial athletics competitions
World Youth Championships