The Hong Kong Inter-School Athletics Competition, held by the Hong Kong Schools Sports Federation annually, aims to explore young talents in track and field events, to raise standards of such competitions to an international level, and to control the selection of Hong Kong representation at interport, Asian and World Competition. In order to accommodate the huge number of 245 participating schools each year, the competition is categorized into three divisions by region. There is a total of six groups: Division one, Division two and Division three (Area1- Area4), competing in 18 events in their regions separately.