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The USA has won six of the past seven short relay titles and the past four straight and will yet again arrive looking tough to unseat.

The USA has won this title at the past six editions of the IAAF World U20 Championships and with a formidable quartet, headed by teen sprint sensation Candace Hill, they should make it a magnificent seven in a row in Byd...

A US quartet has won this event at 15 of the 17 previous championships; with Kahmari Montgomery and Wilbert London, two of the season's five fastest 400m specialists entered, there's little to suggest that a 16th title i...

Michaela Hruba was narrowly beaten in a brilliant final two years ago by Morgan Lake; this year the Czech jumper is set to go head-to-head with the talented Ukrainian Yuliya Levchenko for the title in Bydgoszcz.

Twenty years have passed since this title was won by an Australian - Paul Burgess taking gold at the 1996 championships in Sydney - but in world U20 leader Kurtis Marschall, the Aussies have every reason to believe that ...

The primary focus here falls on two women: Venezuela's Robeilys Peinado, the season's most consistent, and Wilma Murto of Finland, who set a world U20 record* of 4.71m indoors earlier this year.

Jo Pavey on her "race against time" to qualify for Rio, and becoming the oldest woman to run for Britain at the Games.

Maykel Masso of Cuba, the world U18 champion last year at 16, will start as a strong favourite to add the world U20 title to his collection in Bydgoszcz.

The past nine editions of the women's long jump at the World U20 Championships have seen a different nationality take gold. And in what looks a wide-open event in Bydgoszcz, it's anyone's guess where the title will be he...

Cuba has won more world U20 triple jump titles than any other country; in Bydgoszcz the Caribbean island nation will be looking to add a fourth through world U20 leader Davisleidis Velazco, the only U20 athlete to have j...

Sweden's former 1500m world champion Abeba Aregawi is cleared to take part in the Rio Olympics despite failing a drug test.

Italian sports agent Federico Rosa, who managed disgraced former Kenyan Olympic athlete Rita Jeptoo, is charged in Kenya with doping offences.

The question heading into this event is not who will win, but how far will Konrad Bukowiecki win the title by?

With the four longest throws in the world this year by an U20 athlete, Germany's Clemens Prufer appears to have the gold medal at his mercy.

Montenegro has claimed only one medal at the World U20 Championships, but the tiny Balkan nation - in terms of size and athletics stature - could claim their second title in Bydgoszcz courtesy of a discus thrower who is ...

With the six longest throws in the world by an U20 athlete this year, Hungary's Bence Halasz looks poised to add the world U20 crown to the European title he won in this age category last year.

Since the women's hammer was added to the programme at the 1998 edition of these championships, Cuba has yet take a gold medal in nine editions. But with world U20 leader Ayamey Medina donning their colours in Bydgoszcz,...

The winner of the men's javelin in Bydgoszcz will likely land their country's first ever gold medal in the event at the IAAF World U20 Championships.

European athletes have taken gold in the women's javelin at the past eight editions of the World U20 Championships, but with world U18 champion Haruka Kitaguchi slated to compete in Bydgoszcz, this year's title could be ...

It has been 16 years since one nation took two decathlon medals at the IAAF World U20 Championships, but there's a good chance of that happening in Bydgoszcz. The only question is whether it will be Germany or Cuba who a...

The silver medallists from two of the biggest age-group championships last year will go head-to-head in the heptathlon as they look to secure their first major title.

Not since 2000 has the United States been beaten in the 4x400m relay at the World U20 Championships. While they begin as the gold medal favourites, this streak might come to a halt in Bydgoszcz.