List of world cups and world championships for juniors and youth
See also: list of world cups and List of world championships
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. Tournaments which are formally defunct or where a further event is not currently planned are marked with a gray background.
Men
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
Age groups | First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatics | FINA World Junior Swimming Championships | Individuals[R] | 17 or younger | 2006 | Winners in 20 events (2011) | 2013 | Two years |
| Athletics | IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics | Individuals[R] | 18-19 | 1986 | Winners in 22 events (2012) | 2014 | Two years |
| IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics | Individuals[R] | 17 or younger | 1999 | Winners in 20 events (2011) | 2013 | Two years | |
| Badminton | BWF World Junior Championships | Individuals[D] | 19 or younger | 1992 | Winners in 3 events (2012) | 2013 | One year |
| Bandy | Bandy World Championship U-21 | Nations | 21 or younger (until 2014 23 or younger) | 1990 |  Sweden (2016) |
2018 | Two years |
| Bandy World Championship U-19 | Nations | 19 or younger | 2010 | Sweden (2016) |
2018 | Two years | |
| Bandy World Championship U-17 | Nations | 17 or younger | 2011 |  Russia (2016) |
2018 | Two years | |
| Bandy World Championship U-15 | Nations | 15 or younger | 2006 | Russia (2016) |
2018 | Two years | |
| Baseball | World Junior Baseball Championship | Nations | Under-18 | 1981 |  United States (2012) |
2014 | One year through 2000, now two years |
| World Youth Baseball Championship | Nations | Under-16 | 1989 | United States (2011) |
2013 | One year through 1998, two years starting in 2001 | |
| Big League World Series | Communities[1] | 16-18 | 1968 |  Puerto Rico District 13 Little League (2015) |
2016 | One year | |
| Senior League World Series | Communities[2] | 14-16 | 1961 | West University Little League, Texas (2015) |
2016 | One year | |
| Junior League World Series | Communities[3] | 13-15 | 1981 |  Chung-Shan Junior Little League, Taichung, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) (2015) |
2016 | One year | |
| Intermediate Little League World Series | Communities[4] | 13 or younger | 2013 |  Seoul Little League, South Korea (2015) |
2016 | One year | |
| Little League World Series | Communities[5] | 13 or younger | 1947 |  Tokyo Kitasuna Little League, Japan (2015) |
2016 | One year | |
| Basketball | FIBA Under-21 World Championship | Nations | 21 or younger | 1977 |  Lithuania (2005) |
Defunct | Four years until 2005 |
| FIBA Under-19 World Championship | Nations | 19 or younger | 1977 | United States (2013) |
2015 | Four years until 2007, now two years | |
| FIBA Under-17 World Championship | Nations | 17 or younger | 2010 | United States (2012) |
2014 | Two years | |
| FIBA 3x3 U-18 World Championships | Nations | 18 or younger | 2011 |  Argentina (2013) |
2014 | Year[6] | |
| Cricket | U-19 Cricket World Cup | Nations | 19 or younger | 1988 |  India (2012) |
2014 | Two years |
| Figure skating | World Junior Figure Skating Championships | Individuals | 13-19 | 1976 | Winners in 3 events (2013) | 2014 | One year |
| Football (soccer) | FIFA U-20 World Cup | Nations | 20 or younger | 1977 |  Serbia (2015) |
2017 | Two years |
| FIFA U-17 World Cup | Nations | 17 or younger | 1985 |  Nigeria (2013) |
2015 | Two years | |
| Handball | IHF Men's Junior World Championship | Nations | 21 or younger | 1977 |  France (2015) |
2017 | Two years |
| IHF Men's Youth World Championship | Nations | 19 or younger | 2005 | France (2015) |
2017 | Two years | |
| Ice hockey | IIHF World U20 Championship | Nations | 20 or younger | 1977 | United States (2013) |
2014 | Year |
| IIHF World U18 Championships | Nations | 18 or younger | 1999 |  Canada (2013) |
2014 | Year | |
| Lacrosse | Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships | Nations | 19 or younger | 1988 | United States (2012) |
2016 | Four years |
| Rowing | Junior World Rowing Championships | Nations | 18 or younger | 1967 | Winners in 8 events (2012) | 2013 | Year |
| Rugby union | World Rugby Under 20 Championship | Nations | 20 or younger | 2008 |  New Zealand (2015) |
2016 | Year |
| Under 19 Rugby World Championship | Nations | 19 or younger | 2004 | New Zealand (2007) |
Defunct | Year | |
| Under 21 Rugby World Championship | Nations | 21 or younger | 2002 | France (2006) |
Defunct | Year | |
| Short track speed skating | World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships | Individuals and Nations | 19 or younger | 1994 |  Ren Ziwei (overall) (2016) Japan (relay) |
2017 | One year |
| Speed skating | World Junior Speed Skating Championships | Individuals and Nations | 19 or younger | 1972 | Benjamin Donnelly (allround) (2016) Russia (team sprint) South Korea (team pursuit) |
2017 | One year |
| ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating | Individuals and Nations | 19 or younger | 2008–09 | Winners in 6 events (2015–16) | 2016–17 | One year | |
| Sailing | ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships | Nations | Under 19's | 1971 | Ongoing | annually | |
| Classes World Championship | Held in the Splash, Zoom, RS Tera etc. | Various | Various | ||||
| Table tennis | World Junior Table Tennis Championships | Individuals[D] and Nations | 18 or younger | 2003 | Winners in 4 events (2012) | 2013 | One year |
| Volleyball | Men's Junior Volleyball World Championship | Nations | 21 or younger | 1977 | Russia (2011) |
2013 | Two years |
| Boys Youth Volleyball World Championship | Nations | 19 or younger | 1989 | Serbia (2011) |
2013 | Two years |
Women
Open
| Sport | Competition name | Competing entities |
Age groups | First held |
Current holder | Next | Held every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Classes World Championship | Held in the 420, Optimist, Topper, Laser 4.7 etc. | Various | 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 | ||
See also
- World championship
- List of world sports championships
- List of world championships in mind sports
- World cup competition
Notes
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.
References
- ↑ 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.)
- 1 2 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.
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