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The final of the 3000m steeplechase at the 2008 Championships in Poland. The World Athletics U20 Championships is a biennial world championships for the sport of athletics organised by the World Athletics, contested by athletes in the under-20 athletics age category (19 years old or younger on 31 December in the year of the competition.
On 5 April 2023 it was announced that the city had initially withdrawn as a host of the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships due to "recent political instability, social unrest and natural disasters". [1] [2] However on 14 August 2023, Lima was reinstated as host city for the event as all the issues were stabilised. [3]
World U20 Record Letsile Tebogo (BOT) 9.91: Cali, Colombia: 2 August 2022 Championship Record Letsile Tebogo (BOT) 9.91: Cali, Colombia: 2 August 2022 World U20 Leading Christian Miller (USA) 9.93: Clermont, United States: 20 April 2024
World U20 Record Armand Duplantis (SWE) 6.05: Berlin, Germany: 12 August 2018 Championship Record Armand Duplantis (SWE) 5.82: Tampere, Finland: 14 July 2018 World U20 Leading Anthony Ammirati (FRA) 5.70: Caen, France: 26 June 2022
Standing records prior to the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships World U20 Record Sergey Morgunov (RUS) 8.35: Cheboksary, Russia: 20 June 2012 Championship Record James Stallworth (USA) 8.20: Plovdiv, Bulgaria: 9 August 1990 World U20 Leading Oliver Koletzko (GER) 7.98: Tallinn, Estonia: 16 July 2021
Standing records prior to the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships World U20 Record Selemon Barega (ETH) 12:43.02: Brussels, Belgium: 31 August 2018 Championship Record Abreham Cherkos (ETH) 13:08.57: Bydgoszcz, Poland: 13 July 2008 World U20 Leading Addisu Yihune (ETH) 12:58.99: Hengelo, Netherlands: 8 June 2021
Standing records prior to the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships World U20 Record Jacko Gill (NZL) 23.00: Auckland, New Zealand: 18 August 2013 Championship Record Jacko Gill (NZL) 22.20: Barcelona, Spain: 11 July 2012 World U20 Leading Steven Richter (GER) 20.34: Mannheim, Germany: 3 July 2021
The 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships, also known colloquially by its former official title, the World Junior Championships, was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 2003), which was held from 1 to 6 August 2022 at the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero in Cali, Colombia.