FORTY of the country's top junior athletes will be in action over the next six days as the 15th staging of the World Junior Championships will get under way at the Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene beginning today.
Some 167 countries, represented by 1,540 athletes - 829 males and 711 females - are entered for the championships, which is the second largest ever as two years ago in Barcelona, Spain, a record 1,856 athletes from 186 countries participated in those championships.
While hosts the United States will start favourites to top the six-day championships, the Jamaicans, after their medal-topping performance a year ago at the World Youth Champion-ships, will be hoping for another sterling performance at another major junior meet.