Published 18 August 2021
Basseterre
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
COOL TRACK & FIELD FACT: Meritzer Williams is the only athlete from St. Kitts-Nevis to medal in the World Athletics U20 Championships. In 2008 in Poland, she captured the silver medal in the 200m. Click here for the video: https://bit.ly/37S9Xc4
The World Athletics U20 Championships is a biennial world championships for the sport of athletics organised by the World Athletics, contested by athletes in the under-20 athletics age category (19 years old or younger on 31 December in the year of the competition).
The competition was launched as the IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics in 1986 and renamed to IAAF World U20 Championships in November 2015. The current name was adapted with the name change of the sports governing body in 2019.
