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 ...

is one of the core sports on the programme for the

Gymnasiade The Gymnasiade, or World Gymnasiade, or World School Sport Games, or ISF World School Sport Games is an international multi-sport event which is organised by the International School Sport Federation (ISF). It is the largest event among many o ...

, an international

multi-sport event A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of interna ...

organised by the International School Sport Federation (ISF). It has featured at all editions of the competition since 1976. An athletics competition was held the same year as the inaugural 1974 Gymnasiade, but was held separately at a different location. The event, contested by youth athletes under eighteen years old, was used as a reference point by the

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 fo ...

(IAAF) when organising its first

IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics The IAAF U18 Championships in Athletics (until 2015 known as IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics) was a global athletics event comprising track and field events for competitors who were 17 or younger (youth = Under-18). The event was orga ...

in 1999.The History of the Gymnasiade
IAAF (1999-07-08). Retrieved on 2016-07-09.

Editions

Champions

Boys track

Boys field

Girls track

Girls field

Medals

* Medals (1974-2013 / Only Gold)

References

ISF World Gymnasiade
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-07-09.
Doha Gymnasiade 2009 Athletics Results Book
ISF. Retrieved on 2016-07-09.
Gymnasiade 2013 Athletics Results
CBat. Retrieved on 2016-07-09. * https://web.archive.org/web/2016*/http://report.nat.gov.tw/ReportFront/report_download.jspx?sysId=C09000677&fileNo=001 - 2009 * https://web.archive.org/web/20180619113227/https://www.isfsports.org/file/6127/download?token=6An7FIKP - 2016 * http://www.gymnasiade2018.ma/gymnasiade2018-result/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20180713051229/http://www.gymnasiade2018.ma/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ranking.pdf * https://web.archive.org/web/20180713060634/http://www.gymnasiade2018.ma/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Gym2018-lst-Medails.pdf * http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ISF-Gymnasiade-2018-bulletin-1-amended.pdf

External links

International School Sport Federation
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