Arab Junior Athletics Championships

The Arab Junior Athletics Championships is an biennial international athletics competition between athletes under the age of 20 (juniors) from Arabic countries.^[1] It is organised by the Arab Athletic Association.

If was first held in 1984 – seven years after the inauguration of the senior Arab Athletics Championships.^[2] An Arab Youth Athletics Championships was launched twenty years after the junior competition.^[3]

Editions

Ed.	Year	City	Country	Dates	No. of events	No. of athletes
1st	1984	Casablanca	Morocco
2nd	1986	Cairo	Egypt
3rd	1988	Damascus	Syria
4th	1990	Latakia	Syria
5th	1992	Latakia	Syria
6th	1994	Tunis	Tunisia
7th	1996	Latakia	Syria
8th	1998	Damascus	Syria
9th	2000	Damascus	Syria
10th	2002	Cairo	Egypt
11th	2004	Damascus	Syria
12th	2006	Cairo	Egypt	1–4 November[4]
13th	2008	Rades	Tunisia	20–23 June[5]
14th	2010	Cairo	Egypt	5–8 May[6]
15th	2012	Amman	Jordan	16–19 May[7]
16th	2014	Cairo	Egypt	23–26 April[8][9]

References

1. Pan Arab Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
2. Pan Arab Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
3. Pan Arab Youth Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-03-20.
4. UAE youth team leave for Arab meet. Gulf News (2006-10-31). Retrieved on 2015-03-20.
5. Championnats Arabes sur piste Juniors Rades, 20 au 23-06-2008. Tunis Athle. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
6. 14th Arab Junior Championship from 5-8/5/2010 the Military Academy Stadium. Tunis Athle. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
7. 15th Arab Junior Championship in Athletics. Tunis Athle. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
8. Bahrain athletes shine in Arab championship. Gulf Daily News (2014-04-28). Retrieved on 2014-10-02.
9. Arab Junior Athletics Championship: Algeria competes with 17 athletes in Cairo . Algeria Press Service (2014-04-18). Retrieved on 2014-10-02.

External links

• Arab Athletics website