Under-18 World Best Performances in the sport of
athletics
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are the best marks set in competition by athletes aged 17 or younger throughout the entire calendar year of the performance.
World Athletics
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(formerly IAAF) maintains an official list for such performances, but only in a specific list of outdoor events. All other records, including all indoor records, shown on this list are tracked by statisticians not officially sanctioned by the world governing body. These age category records were formerly called World Youth Bests.
Outdoor
Key:
h = hand timing
A = affected by altitude
OT = oversized track (> 200m in circumference)
X = annulled due to doping violation
Boys
Girls
Mixed
Indoor
World Athletics
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 ...
does not keep official "bests" in indoor events for the Youth division.
Boys
Girls
See also
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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 ...
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Youth (athletics)
Youth is a category of athletics in which athletes compete under the age of 18 years. Countries all around the world compete in athletics. World Youth Athletics Competitions are held every 2 years which contain the best Youth competitors in the w ...
Notes
:1. Though sometimes called "world youth records", they are not officially recognized or ratified as such by any body. World Athletics refers to them as World Youth Bests (WYB) or World Youth Best Performances instead.
References
;General
World Athletics U-18 Best Performances''9 September 2022 updated''
;Specific
{{Junior athletics
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World
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