2002 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

After an absence in 2000, regional powers Morocco, Algeria and Qatar all returned to the tournament.

[1] Morocco topped the table with twelve gold medals, followed by Egypt which won eight titles.

[1] Morocco's Yassine Bensghir completed a men's middle-distance double and was the World Junior Champion that same year.

The men's throws saw the emergence of a new generation of athletes who would dominate regionally: Sultan Al-Hebshi and Ali Al-Zinkawi later won Asian titles in their disciplines,[3] while the Egyptian trio of Yasser Ibrahim Farag, Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly and Mohsen Mohamed Anani later won gold medals at the African Championships in Athletics in the shot put, discus and hammer throw, respectively.

Mariem Alaoui Selsouli was a medallist in both long-distance events and later won medals at the IAAF World Indoor Championships.