State Youth Challenge
- The State Youth Challenge is the category for youth runners aged 15 to 24 years old and has three (3) distance categories – Full Marathon, ASICS Half Marathon and Pantai KL 10KM.
- All State Youth Challenge participants will be able to represent a Malaysian state of their choice.
- All participants must be Malaysian citizens but are allowed to compete even if they reside overseas.
- All State Youth Challenge participants are still required to pay the standard participation fees to compete.
- Runners in these categories are eligible for the State Youth Challenge – Individual, Foreign Residents, PIN Codes, Standard Chartered Bank staff, GBS staff, and Run For A Reason (RFAR) participants
- Runners in the following categories are not eligible to compete in State Youth Challenge – Corporate Challenge Run Club Challenge, and the Kids Dash.
- State Youth Challenge athletes who successfully complete the race by the respective cut-off times will receive their respective finisher entitlements.
- The prize money won will go to the state athletic associations for their Youth programmes.
- There are a total of six (6) categories. The prizes are each category are:
- Winning state – RM2,000
- 2nd place – RM1,300
- 3rd place – RM700