Asian U18 Athletics Championships

Asian U18 Athletics Championships
Statusactive
Genresports event
Date(s)midyear
Frequencybiennial
Inaugurated2015
Most recent2023
Organised byAAA

The Asian U18 Athletics Championships (formerly Asian Youth Athletics Championships) is a biennial, continental athletics competition for Asian athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. First held in 2015, it a youth category event open to athletes aged fifteen and seventeen.[1] The competition was the fourth continental athletics competition to be held for that age level, following in the steps of the South American, Oceanian and African events. Its first edition came at a time of rising interest in such competitions, with the first African championships being held in 2013, and the European Athletics Youth Championships scheduled for the following year.[2][3] In March 2014, the Asian Athletics Association's president Dahlan Jumaan al-Hamad cited the creation of the championships as a way of boosting the grassroots-level development of the sport in Asia and raise the importance of continental level competition among the region's countries.[1]

  1. ^ a b Avison, Ben (2014-03-04). Doha to host 2015 Asian Youth Athletics Championships Archived 2015-05-12 at the Wayback Machine. Host City. Retrieved on 2015-05-13.
  2. ^ Timetable 1st African Youth Championships[permanent dead link]. Confederation of African Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-09-14.
  3. ^ Mistrzostwa Europy dla juniorów młodszych? (in Polish). PZLA (2013-03-13). Retrieved on 2013-09-14.