The 1984 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the inaugural edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place in Casablanca, Morocco from 21–23 July.QUARANTE ANS D'HISTOIRE DE L'ATHLETISME ALGERIEN. Algeriathle. Retrieved on 2015-02-22. A total of 38 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 16 for women.Pan Arab Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22. The competition was scheduled to be held in the years between the biennial Arab Athletics Championships for senior athletes.Arab Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.

The junior programme featured two unusual variations in a 30 km road race and a 15 km road walk. No other junior championship has featured these distances. Similar to the European Athletics Junior Championships, the steeplechase was contested over a distance of 2000 m, as opposed to the usual 3000 m at senior events. The establishment of the Arab Junior Championships pre-dated both the Asian Junior Athletics Championships and the African Junior Athletics Championships, as well as the World Junior Championships in Athletics, making it the first competition of its type for the countries involved.African Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.Asian Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.World Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.

The hosts, Morocco, topped the table with eleven gold medals, nine of them from the women's section. Algeria was second, with eight gold medals, and Tunisia rounded out the top three with seven golds. Several athletes achieved individual doubles. Mustapha Kamel Selmi completed a men's sprint double and was later a 1988 Olympian. Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama won a long-distance double and would go on to win many senior medals in senior Asian competition. Fadhel Khayati won both men's hurdles events and went on to represent Tunisia at the 1992 Olympics. On the women's side, Yasmina Azzizi established herself with a heptathlon/100 metres hurdles double; she dominated the former event at regional level later in the decade. Middle-distance doubles were achieved in both the men's and women's sides, but the winners Sabih Ayman and Mounir Allaoui, were not successful at senior level.

The event was part of a flourish of athletics championships in the mid-1980s in Casablanca, Morocco's largest city. The 1983 Maghreb Athletics Championships and Mediterranean Games were held there the previous year,Mediterranean Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-21.Maghreb Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-20. and the 1985 Pan Arab Games came the year after.Pan Arab Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-21.

Medal summary

Men 100 metres 10.68 10.78 10.86200 metres 21.81 21.89 22.34400 metres 47.88 48.52 49.34800 metres 1:49.51 1:49.93 1:50.291500 metres 3:49.28 3:50.03 3:50.645000 metres 15:21.29 15:25.47 15:28.21110 m hurdles 14.88 14.93 15.19400 m hurdles 51.61 53.25 53.722000 metres steeplechase 5:47.33 5:47.34 5:54.304×100 m relay 42.36 42.52 42.764×400 m relay 3:10.18 3:15.46 3:15.4630 km road race 1:42:00 1:45:02 1:45:1715 km walk 1:17:38 1:18:02 1:18:53High jump 2.10 m 2.07 m 2.04 mPole vault 4.40 m 4.40 m 4.30 mLong jump 7.59w m 7.52 m 7.46 mTriple jump 15.58 m 15.46 m 15.42 mShot put 15.05 m 13.70 m 13.47 mDiscus throw 45.72 m 42.38 m 41.20 mHammer throw 54.10 m 53.22 m 50.70 mJavelin throw 69.56 m 58.50 m 58.40 mDecathlon 6201 pts 6066 pts 6034 pts

Women 100 metres 12.49 12.64 12.66200 metres 25.97 26.21 26.21400 metres 57.34 58.92 59.19800 metres 2:10.29 2:10.30 2:10.401500 metres 4:30.39 4:36.59 4:37.903000 metres 9:55.82 10:23.00 10:36.59100 m hurdles 15.19 15.54 15.83400 m hurdles 64.24 65.25 80.554×100 m relay 48.38 49.52 49.784×400 m relay 3:58.84 4:03.40 4:07.28High jump 1.53 m 1.53 m 1.45 mLong jump 5.80 m 5.44w m 5.41 mShot put 11.51 m 10.64 m 10.16 mDiscus throw 41.72 m 41.64 m 29.12 mJavelin throw 38.80 m 32.26 m 30.32 mHeptathlon 3269 pts 3127 pts 3122 pts

Medal table

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