2011 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships Explained

FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2011
Host City:	Otepää, Estonia
Events:	19
Opening:	26 January
Closing:	31 January
Previous:	2010 Hinterzarten

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

Men's Junior Events
Men's junior 10 kilometre freestyle^[1]	Sindre Bjørnestad Skar	24:05.2	Markus Weeger	+16.0	Perttu Hyvärinen	+17.5
Men's junior sprint classic^[2]	Sergey Ustiugov		Sondre Turvoll Fossli		Gleb Retivykh
Men's junior 20 kilometre skiathlon^[3]	Markus Weeger	53:31.1	Konstantin Kuleev	+19.5	Perttu Hyvärinen	+19.9
Men's junior 4×5 km relay^[4]	Emil Iversen Erik Bergfall Brovold Mathias Rundgreen Sindre Bjørnestad Skar	49:10.5	Gleb Retivykh Sergey Ustiugov Konstantin Kuleev Denis Kataev	49:12.7	Sami Lahdemäki Iivo Niskanen Antti Ojansivu Perttu Hyvärinen	49:23.3
Ladies' Junior Events
Ladies' junior 5 kilometre freestyle^[5]	Ragnhild Haga	13:50.6	Kari Øyre Slind	+5.6	Heidi Weng	+8.0
Ladies' junior sprint classic^[6]	Lucia Anger		Kari Øyre Slind		Ragnhild Haga
	Heidi Weng	31:08.4	Martine Ek Hagen	+1.6	Helene Jacob	+2.1
Ladies' junior 4×3.33 km relay^[7]	Ragnhild Haga Martine Ek Hagen Heidi Weng Kari Øyre Slind	35:03.6	Elena Serokhvostova Anna Scherbinina Anna Nechaevskaya Elena Soboleva	35:26.2	Lucia Anger Theresa Eichhorn Helene Jacob Hanna Kolb	35:38.3

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

Men's individual normal hill/5 km	Marjan Jelenko	Johannes Rydzek	Kaarel Nurmsalu
	Johannes Rydzek	Marjan Jelenko	Kaarel Nurmsalu
Men's team normal hill/4×5 km	align=center colspan=3	Event cancelled^[8]

Ski jumping

Men's Junior Events
Men's junior individual normal hill^[9]	Vladimir Zografski	255.0	Stefan Kraft	251.0	Kaarel Nurmsalu	249.0
Men's junior team normal hill^[10]	Markus Schiffner Michael Hayböck Stefan Kraft Thomas Lackner	920.5	Daniel Wenig Stephan Leyhe Marinus Kraus Richard Freitag	913.0	Mats Søhagen Berggaard Sigmund Hagehaugen Espen Røe Anders Fannemel	876.0
Ladies' Junior Events
	Coline Mattel	257.5	Špela Rogelj	254.0	Yuki Ito	252.0
Ladies' junior team normal hill	align=center colspan=6	Event cancelled^[11]

Under-23 events

Cross-country skiing

Men's Under-23 Events
Men's under-23 15 kilometre free^[12]	Evgeniy Belov	35:26.3	Pavel Vikulin	35:42.4	Raul Shakirzianov	35:49.7
Men's under-23 sprint classic^[13]	Alexander Panzhinskiy		Timo André Bakken		Magnus Moholt
Men's under-23 30 kilometre skiathlon^[14]	Alex Harvey	1:13:47.9	Evgeniy Belov	1:13:48.6	Raul Shakirzianov	1:14:23.6
Ladies' Under-23 Events
	Krista Lähteenmäki	26:33.3	Mariya Guschina	27:33.3	Hilde Lauvhaug	27:35.1
Ladies' under-23 sprint classic^[15]	Kerttu Niskanen		Britt Ingunn Nydal		Jennie Öberg
	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg	41:55.5	Britt Ingunn Nydal	42:01.9	Kerttu Niskanen	42:02.9

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 minutes to her teammate, placing 9th. Norway took already their 5th medal in the games, with Hilde Lauvhaug finishing 3rd.

Medal table

External links

• Cross country results
• Ski jumping results
• Nordic combined results

Notes and References

1. Web site: Junior Men 10 km Individual Free Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
2. Web site: Junior Men Sprint Classic Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
3. Web site: Junior Men Pursuit 10 km Classic + 10 Km Free Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
4. Web site: Junior Men Relay Official Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
5. Web site: Junior Ladies 5 km Individual Free Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
6. Web site: Junior Ladies Sprint Classic Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
7. Web site: Junior Ladies Relay Official Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
8. http://www.fisnordiccombined.com/ JWM: Team-Event abgesagt
9. Web site: Men's Junior Normal Hill Individual Official Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
10. Web site: Men's Junior Normal Hill Individual Official Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
11. Web site: Cancellation in Otepää . 2011-04-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110208065933/http://berkutschi.com/en/front/news/show/1330-wjc-cancellation-in-otepaeae . 2011-02-08 . dead.
12. Web site: U23 Men's 15 km Individual Free Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
13. Web site: U23 Men's 1.4 km Sprint Classic Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
14. Web site: U23 Men's Pursuit 15 km Classic + 15 km Free Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.
15. Web site: U23 Ladies' 1.2 km Sprint Classic Results . www.fis-ski.com . . 29 January 2019.