The tournament, according to the association, will be used to select athletes to represent the country in this year's edition of the East and Central Africa Region (EAAR) Junior Championships.
The Open Junior Athletics Championships will be held at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium and more than 200 junior athletes are expected to battle it out in the showpiece.
One of AT information officers, Tullo Chambo, said today's event is an open showdown in which all junior athletes are free to compete.
He stated regions namely Arusha, Morogoro, Tabora, and Coast Region have registered their athletes for the showdown.
"All is set for the Open Junior Championships, it will be used to select U-20 and U-18 athletes who will enter the camp to prepare for the EAAR Championships to be hosted by our country next week," he said.
He said the selected athletes will enter camp under the tutelage of Mwinga Mwanjala and Robert Kallaghe.
Tullo, however, could not issue the number of athletes who will enter the camp and the venue of the camp.
The official disclosed all will be known after AT's executive meeting which took place in the city yesterday. By press time the meeting was in progress.
This is the second time in a row that AT is hosting the regional track and field championships and Chambo described the showdown as an opportunity for the country's junior athletes.
Initially, Rwanda was the regional championships' host but the country did not meet some of the conditions.
With Tanzania having been the championships' host last year, it was, for that matter, again awarded the opportunity to host it this year.
The championships will be used as qualification for Africa Junior Athletics Championships which will be held in Zambia next month.
This will be the third time in recent years that Tanzania is hosting the EAAR Junior Championships.
The country had earlier hosted the showdown in 2017 and last year. World Athletics (WA) is the main sponsor of the event.
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