2011 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships
# 2011 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships

The 2011 FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships were held in Otepää, Estonia from 26 January to 31 January 2011. It was the 34th Junior World Championships and the 6th Under-23 World Championships in nordic skiing.

## Medal summary

### Junior events

**Cross-country skiing**

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Men's Junior Events |||||||
| Men's junior 10 kilometre freestyle | Sindre Bjørnestad Skar Norway | 24:05.2 | Markus Weeger Germany | +16.0 | Perttu Hyvärinen Finland | +17.5 |
| Men's junior sprint classic | Sergey Ustiugov Russia | | Sondre Turvoll Fossli Norway | | Gleb Retivykh Russia | |
| Men's junior 20 kilometre skiathlon | Markus Weeger Germany | 53:31.1 | Konstantin Kuleev Russia | +19.5 | Perttu Hyvärinen Finland | +19.9 |
| Men's junior 4×5 km relay | Norway Emil Iversen Erik Bergfall Brovold Mathias Rundgreen Sindre Bjørnestad Skar | 49:10.5 | Russia Gleb Retivykh Sergey Ustiugov Konstantin Kuleev Denis Kataev | 49:12.7 | Finland Sami Lahdemäki Iivo Niskanen Antti Ojansivu Perttu Hyvärinen | 49:23.3 |
| Ladies' Junior Events |||||||
| Ladies' junior 5 kilometre freestyle | Ragnhild Haga Norway | 13:50.6 | Kari Øyre Slind Norway | +5.6 | Heidi Weng Norway | +8.0 |
| Ladies' junior sprint classic | Lucia Anger Germany | | Kari Øyre Slind Norway | | Ragnhild Haga Norway | |
| Ladies' junior 10 kilometre skiathlon | Heidi Weng Norway | 31:08.4 | Martine Ek Hagen Norway | +1.6 | Helene Jacob Germany | +2.1 |
| Ladies' junior 4×3.33 km relay | Norway Ragnhild Haga Martine Ek Hagen Heidi Weng Kari Øyre Slind | 35:03.6 | Russia Elena Serokhvostova Anna Scherbinina Anna Nechaevskaya Elena Soboleva | 35:26.2 | Germany Lucia Anger Theresa Eichhorn Helene Jacob Hanna Kolb | 35:38.3 |

**Cross-country skiing**

**Notes**

* Ladies' junior 5 km freestyle: The Norwegians were sovereign in the race, conquering the top four places.
* Men's junior 10 km freestyle: Norway continued it superb performances with Skar taking the victory by over 15 seconds. Finland's Perttu Hyvärinen did a great job on the last lap by rising from 6th to 3rd place and grabbing the medal.

**Nordic combined**

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men's individual normal hill/5 km | Marjan Jelenko | Johannes Rydzek | Kaarel Nurmsalu |
| Men's individual normal hill/10 km | Johannes Rydzek | Marjan Jelenko | Kaarel Nurmsalu |
| Men's team normal hill/4×5 km | Event cancelled | Event cancelled | Event cancelled |

**Ski jumping**

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Men's Junior Events |||||||
| Men's junior individual normal hill | Vladimir Zografski Bulgaria | 255.0 | Stefan Kraft Austria | 251.0 | Kaarel Nurmsalu Estonia | 249.0 |
| Men's junior team normal hill | Austria Markus Schiffner Michael Hayböck Stefan Kraft Thomas Lackner | 920.5 | Germany Daniel Wenig Stephan Leyhe Marinus Kraus Richard Freitag | 913.0 | Norway Mats Søhagen Berggaard Sigmund Hagehaugen Espen Røe Anders Fannemel | 876.0 |
| Ladies' Junior Events |||||||
| Ladies' junior individual normal hill | Coline Mattel France | 257.5 | Špela Rogelj Slovenia | 254.0 | Yuki Ito Japan | 252.0 |
| Ladies' junior team normal hill | Event cancelled | Event cancelled | Event cancelled | Event cancelled | Event cancelled | Event cancelled |

### Under-23 events

**Cross-country skiing**

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Men's Under-23 Events |||||||
| Men's under-23 15 kilometre free | Evgeniy Belov Russia | 35:26.3 | Pavel Vikulin Russia | 35:42.4 | Raul Shakirzianov Russia | 35:49.7 |
| Men's under-23 sprint classic | Alexander Panzhinskiy Russia | | Timo André Bakken Norway | | Magnus Moholt Norway | |
| Men's under-23 30 kilometre skiathlon | Alex Harvey Canada | 1:13:47.9 | Evgeniy Belov Russia | 1:13:48.6 | Raul Shakirzianov Russia | 1:14:23.6 |
| Ladies' Under-23 Events |||||||
| Ladies' under-23 10 kilometre free | Krista Lähteenmäki Finland | 26:33.3 | Mariya Guschina Russia | 27:33.3 | Hilde Lauvhaug Norway | 27:35.1 |
| Ladies' under-23 sprint classic | Kerttu Niskanen Finland | | Britt Ingunn Nydal Norway | | Jennie Öberg Sweden | |
| Ladies' under-23 15 kilometre skiathlon | Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Norway | 41:55.5 | Britt Ingunn Nydal Norway | 42:01.9 | Kerttu Niskanen Finland | 42:02.9 |

**Cross-country skiing**

**Notes**

* Ladies under-23 10 km freestyle: In extremely cold weather at -20 degrees Celsius, Krista Lähteenmäki, 20, lead from start to finish to take gold by a crushing 1- minute deficit to the second placed Maria Guschina. Although only 20 years old the finn had already placed 8th in the 2010–11 Tour de Ski. The defending champion Kerttu Niskanen, also a finn, lost over 1+1⁄2 minutes to her teammate, placing 9th. Norway took already their 5th medal in the games, with Hilde Lauvhaug finishing 3rd.

### Medal table

* Host nation (Estonia)

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Norway | 6 | 7 | 5 | 18 |
| 2 | Russia | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 3 | Germany | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | Finland | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | Slovenia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Austria | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Bulgaria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Estonia* | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 entries) | Totals (12 entries) | 19 | 19 | 19 | 57 |
