World Junior Speed Skating Championships Explained

World Junior Speed Skating Championships
Status:	active
Genre:	sports event
Date:	January–February
Frequency:	annual
Location:	various
Organised:	ISU

In 1971, the ISU congress decided to hold a World Junior Speed Skating Championships. After two test-championships (1972 and 1973), where only a boys' competition was held in the 1972 edition, the first official championship was introduced in Cortina d'Ampezzo. In this championship boys and girls could enter. Since this championship the World Junior Speed Skating Championships are held every year.

The distances the boys have to skate in a championship were the 500m, 1500m, 3000m, and the 5000m. In 2015 the 1000 metres replaced the 3000m as part of the allround competition. Girls have the 500m, 1000m, 1500m and the 3000m on the programme. In 2002 the team pursuit was added to the allround competition and the 2009 edition saw the introduction of medals for the individual distances. In 2015 the team sprint and mass start events were added. The 2021 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Summary

World Junior Speed Skating Championships
Number	Year	City	Country	Events
align=center	-				1
align=center	-				2
1				2
2				2
3				2
4				2
5				2
6				2
7				2
8				2
9				2
10				2
11				2
12				2
13				2
14				2
15				2
16				2
17				2
18				2
19				2
20				2
21				2
22				2
23				2
24				2
25				2
26				2
27				2
28				2
29				4
30				4
31				4
32				4
33				4
34				4
35				4
36				12
37				12
38				12
39				12
40				12
41				12
42				16
43				16
44				16
45				16
46				16
47				16
	2021^[1]	Hachinohe		0
48				16
49				16
50				16

List of medallists (boys)

Year	Location	bgcolor=gold	Gold	bgcolor=silver	Silver	bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
1972			Nikolay Kuzmenko
1973			Nikolaj Kuzmenko
1974				Jan Miętus
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980				Sergej Berezin
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000	Seinäjoki
2001
2002				Remco olde Heuvel
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010				Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu
2011
				Simen Spieler Nilsen
				Andrea Giovannini
				Emery Lehman
				Marcel Bosker
				Marcel Bosker
				Tyson Langelaar
				Francesco Betti
2021	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
				Emil Pedersen Matre
				Tim Prins
				Finn Elias Haneberg

List of medallists (girls)

Year	Location	bgcolor=gold	Gold	bgcolor=silver	Silver	bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
1973	Assen	Sylvia Burka	Froukje Jongsma	Kay Lunda
1974		Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Tatyana Fradina	Tatyana Timoshina
1975		Heike Lange	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Pietje Postma
1976		Liz Appleby	Beth Heiden	Katrin Lorenz
1977		Kim Kostron	Beth Heiden	Bjørg Eva Jensen
1978	Montreal	Beth Heiden	Bjørg Eva Jensen	Ines Bautzmann
1979		Beth Heiden	Bjørg Eva Jensen	Ria Visser
1980		Bjørg Eva Jensen	Sarah Docter	Ria Visser
1981		Sarah Docter	Elke Wirsing	Yvonne van Gennip
1982		Angela Stahnke	Yvonne van Gennip	Seiko Hashimoto
1983		Angela Stahnke	Seiko Hashimoto	Sjouke Hoffmann
1984		Angela Stahnke	Galina Voilochnikova	Song Hwa-son
1985		Cornelia Dick	Ljudmila Tuberozova	Monique Garbrecht
1986		Monique Garbrecht	Anja Ulbricht	Ljudmila Tuberozova
1987		Monique Garbrecht	Anja Ulbricht	Silke Luding
1988		Emi Tanaka	Claudia Pechstein	Shiho Kusunose
1989		Ulrike Adeberg	Anke Baier	Sandra Zwolle
1990		Ulrike Adeberg	Anke Baier	Takako Tetsuda
1991		Anke Baier	Svetlana Bazhanova	Sabine Völker
1992		Nami Nemoto	Sabine Völker	Tatyana Trapeznikova
1993		Franziska Schenk	Mie Shimizu	Maki Tabata
1994		Mie Shimizu	Anni Friesinger	Marianne Timmer
1995			Anni Friesinger	Chris Scheels
1996		Anni Friesinger	Renate Groenewold	Aki Tonoike
1997		Kirstin Holum	Baek Eun-bi	Kanae Kobayashi
1998		Aki Tonoike	Catherine Raney	Frijke Schaafsma
1999		Helen van Goozen	Yuri Obara	Keiko Taguchi
2000		Frédérique Ankoné	Wieteke Cramer	Heike Hartmann
2001		Frédérique Ankoné	Heike Hartmann	Elma de Vries
2002		Elma de Vries		Judith Hesse
2003		Shannon Rempel	Eriko Ishino	Maria Lamb
2004		Eriko Ishino	Ireen Wüst	Shannon Rempel
2005		Ireen Wüst	Annette Gerritsen	Lee Sang-hwa
2006		Kim Yoo-rim	Martina Sáblíková	Lee Ju-yeon
2007		Noh Seon-yeong	Laurine van Riessen	Fu Chunyan
2008		Marrit Leenstra		Justine L'Heureux
2009				Katarzyna Woźniak
2010				Karolína Erbanová
2011				Lotte van Beek
				Kim Bo-reum
				Kaitlyn McGregor
				Elizaveta Kazelina
				Elizaveta Kazelina
				Park Ji-woo
				Sanne in 't Hof
				Elisa Dul
2021	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
				Park Chae-won
				Jade Groenewoud
				Meike Veen

See also

• ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating
• List of world cups and world championships for juniors and youth

Notes

1. The 2021 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

• Medal Winners in World Junior Championships