List of world cups and world championships for juniors and youth
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The following is a list of world cups and world championships for juniors and youth, sporting events which use one of these two names, or one with a similar meaning. <templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Tournaments which are formally defunct or where a further event is not currently planned are marked with a gray background.
Men
Women
Open
Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
Age groups | First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
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Gliding | Junior World Gliding Championships | Individuals | 25 or younger | 1999 | Felipe Levin (standard class) Tim Kuijpers (club class) |
2013 | Two years |
Sailing | ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships | Nations | Under 19's | 1971 | Ongoing | annually | |
ISAF Classes World Championship | Held in the Optimist, Splash, Zoom, RS Tera etc. | 19 or younger | Various |
Mixed
Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
Age groups | First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Badminton | BWF World Junior Championships | Nations | 19 or younger | 1992 | China (2012) | 2013 | One year |
Basketball | FIBA 3x3 U-18 World Championships | Four-member national teams of two men and two women, with three players on the court at any given time | 18 or younger | 2011 | France (2012) | Defunct | Only held in 2011 and 2012 |
Figure skating | World Junior Figure Skating Championships | Two mixed team events (pairs and ice dancing) | 13-19 (women); 13-21 (men) | 1976 | One year | ||
Sailing | ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships | Male & Female | Under 19's | 1971 | Ongoing | annually |
Notes
- ↑ Teams advance to the World Series by winning one of 10 regional competitions, five in the U.S. and five in the rest of the world. Additionally, the host league competes with its own all-star team. While each team in this competition is billed as representing its region, it is drawn from an area limited to a total population (of all ages) of no more than 20,000. (This rule is often waived for leagues in countries where baseball is not a strongly established sport.)
- ↑ Teams advance to the World Series by winning one of 9 regional competitions, five in the U.S. and four in the rest of the world. Additionally, the host league competes with its own all-star team. While each team in this competition is billed as representing its region, it is drawn from an area limited to a total population (of all ages) of no more than 20,000. (This rule is often waived for leagues in countries where baseball is not a strongly established sport.)
- ↑ Teams advance to the World Series by winning one of 10 regional competitions, five in the U.S. and five in the rest of the world. While each team in this competition is billed as representing its region, it is drawn from an area limited to a total population (of all ages) of no more than 20,000. (This rule is often waived for leagues in countries where baseball is not a strongly established sport.)
- ↑ Teams advance to the World Series by winning one of nine regional competitions, five in the U.S. and four in the rest of the world. Additionally, the host district competes with its own all-star team. While each team in this competition is billed as representing its region, it is drawn from an area limited to a total population (of all ages) of no more than 20,000. (This rule is often waived for leagues in countries where baseball is not a strongly established sport.)
- ↑ Teams advance to the World Series by winning one of 16 regional competitions, eight in the U.S. and eight in the rest of the world. While each team in this competition is billed as representing its region, it is drawn from an area limited to a total population (of all ages) of no more than 20,000. (This rule is often waived for leagues in countries where baseball is not a strongly established sport.)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 FIBA does not conduct separate 3x3 World Championships in years of the Summer Youth Olympics, held every four years in the middle of the Summer Olympics cycle. It instead officially treats the 3x3 competitions at the Youth Olympics as fully equivalent to its own World Championships.
- ↑ The first two editions of the tournament, in 2002 and 2004, involved under-19 teams (i.e., players 19 or younger). The current under-20 format was adopted in 2006.
R. ^R - One or more relay events, in which three or four competitors compete for their nation, are included for each sex.
D. ^D - Includes three Doubles events, one for men, one for women, and one for mixed doubles.