A record number of athletes are expected to compete at the IAAF July 10-14 World Youth Championships (WYC) in Donetsk, Ukraine.

More than 1,530 entries (840 boys and 713) have been received for the championships. The best attended WYC so far was two years ago in Lille, when 1,322 athletes took part. Even taking into account the fact that the final figure will be slightly lower than the entries, there is optimism that record numbers will be reached.

Athletes will represent 165 IAAF national member federations. The most attended edition in terms of different nationalities was Marrakech in 2005, when 177 countries made the trip to Morocco.