1998 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

Due to technical limitations, performances in track races were timed to the tenth of a second, rather than the international standard to one hundredth of a second.

Runners-up Qatar took nine gold medals but success was limited to the men's events.

[1] In the men's competition, Fawzi Al-Shammari completed a 200/400 m sprint double – a feat he would repeat at the 2003 Asian Athletics Championships.

Qatari gold medallists Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari (discus) and Ahmad Hassan Moussa (decathlon) would also become Asian champions.

The 5000 m champion Souad Aït Salem was the most prominent female athlete to emerge – she would win Arab, African and Mediterranean long-distance titles in the following years.