- published: 23 May 2015
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Youth is a category of athletics in which athletes compete under the age of 18 years.
The problems of adolescence in modern times are of various kinds, ranging from obesity to depression, so here's the practice of sport is important, in particular it is to introduce young people to practice athletics.
Participate in the competitions in this class, athletes who have not completed their eighteenth birthday on 31 December of the Competicion. The IAAF provides a youth development program of athletics, named Youth Programme.
Youth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood (maturity). Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals could exist at all ages.
Around the world, the terms "youth", "adolescent", "teenager", "kid", and "young person" are interchanged, often meaning the same thing, occasionally differentiated. Youth generally refers to a time of life that is neither childhood nor adulthood, but rather somewhere in-between. Youth also identifies a particular mindset of attitude, as in "He is very youthful". The term youth is also related to being young.
Youth is an alternative word to the scientifically-oriented adolescent and the common terms of teen and teenager. Another common title for youth is young person or young people.
August 12th was declared International Youth Day by The United Nations.
The age in which a person is considered a "youth", and thus eligible for special treatment under the law and throughout society varies around the world.
Athletics may refer to: