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Under-18 world best performances in the sport of athletics are the best marks set in competition by athletes aged 17 or younger throughout the entire calendar year of the performance. World Athletics (formerly IAAF) maintains an official list for such performances, but only in specific outdoor and indoor events.
The IAAF U18 Championships in Athletics (until 2015 known as IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics) [1] was a global athletics event comprising track and field events for competitors who were 17 or younger (youth = Under-18). The event was organized by International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It was held biennially from ...
USATF, the United States governing body, does not keep records for the youth division. This list is compiled from IAAF lists and corresponds to IAAF definitions of the age division. USATF keeps outdoor youth division records here, but the age divisions do not correspond with IAAF divisions and records mostly outdated. A youth could be in the ...
The Junior World Records in Swimming are the fastest times ever swum by a "junior" swimmer, with junior defined as the following ages (age as of December 31 of the year of the swim): girls - 18 years old or younger; boys - 18 years old or younger
The fastest ever under-18 time was set by US sprinter Erriyon Knighton in 2021, a wind-assisted 9.99 seconds. His compatriot Jelani Watkins and Thai sprinter Puripol Boonson occupy second and ...
List of world youth records in athletics. Add languages. Add links. ... List of world under-18 bests in athletics ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed 7 times indoors by two different men since 2000, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2025 with a 6.27 m mark.
She finished fifth at the 2022 IAAF World Junior Championships in Cali, Colombia in August 2022. [ 4 ] In January 2023, she set an American Under-20 record and high school all-time record clearance of 4.61m competing at the 2023 Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nevada , becoming the first American girl to go over 15 feet.