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Article: World junior athletes to compete in worlds in Beijing
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 14, 2006
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World junior athletes to compete in worlds in Beijing
BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Athletics World Junior Championships
is to start Tuesday in Beijing with athletes from a record of 182
nations and regions participating.
As the largest sporting event held in Beijing before the 2008
Olympic Games, the 11th edition of the World Athletics Series event
draws a participation of 1,451 athletes aged of 16-19 years old,
while a total of 2,284 athletes, coaches and officials from 182
countries and regions enrolled in this competition.
The next greatest number of participating teams for the junior
worlds, which were inaugurated in Athens in 1986, was the 170