Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 1996

The 29th Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 1996 took place from January 29th to February 4th 1996 in Asiago, Italy. After 1972 ( Tarvisio ) and 1987 (also in Asiago) Italy was the host of this most important junior competition in Nordic skiing for the third time.

The most successful nation in the competitions was Russia with three gold medals and one bronze medal, which were won in the cross-country skiing competitions, ahead of the German team with two gold and one silver medal. In third place in the medal table came Finland, which won a gold and silver medal as well as three bronze medals and was able to collect the most precious metal with a total of five medals. The most successful athletes were the Russian cross-country skier Julija Tschepalowa and the German ski jumper Michael Uhrmann , each with two gold medals.

Competition venues

The ski jumping competitions and the Nordic combined jumping were held on the Trampolino del Pakstall in nearby Gallio . The cross-country skiing competitions of the specialists and combiners took place on the trails around Asiago.

Cross-country juniors

10 km classic

space	athlete	country	time
1	Per Elofsson	Sweden
2	Martin Bajčičák	Slovakia
3	Bruno Carrara	Italy

Date: January 31, 1996

30 km classic

space	athlete	country	time
1	Fabio Santus	Italy
2	Per Elofsson	Sweden
3	Martin Bajčičák	Slovakia

Date: February 4, 1996

4 × 10 km relay

space	athlete	country
1	Vitaly Denisov Mikhail Ivanov Viktor Schutkin Vladimir Wilissow	Russia
2	Mirko Penasa Bruno Carrara Cristian Saracco Fabio Santus	Italy
3	Nicklas Jacobsson Stefan Dahlsten Tobias Langberg Per Elofsson	Sweden

Date: 1996

Cross-country juniors

5 km classic

space	athlete	country	time
1	Maija Puukilainen	Finland
2	Kristina Šmigun	Estonia
3	Yulia Chepalova	Russia

Date: January 31, 1996

15 km classic

space	athlete	country	time
1	Yulia Chepalova	Russia
2	Kristina Šmigun	Estonia
3	Sanna Virtanen	Finland

Date: February 4, 1996

4 × 5 km relay

space	athlete	country
1	Marina Lajskaja Olga Schebolkina Jelena Arbutowa Julija Tschepalowa	Russia
2	Ramona Roth Isabel Klaus Sigrid Lang Lena Erhard	Germany
3	Elina Hietamäki Maija Puukilainen Salla Juntunen Sanna Virtanen	Finland

Date: 1996

Nordic combined juniors

Gundersen (normal hill K 90/10 km)

space	athlete	country
1	Todd Lodwick	United States
2	Hannu Manninen	Finland
3	Felix Gottwald	Austria

Date: February 1, 1996

Team (normal hill K90 / 3x5 km)

space	athlete	country
1	Sverre Rotevatn Preben Fjære Brynemo Kristian Hammer	Norway
2	Ludovic Roux Jean-Marc Mougel Nicolas Bal	France
3	Igor Cuznar Rolando Kaligaro Roman Perko	Slovenia

Date: February 3, 1996

Ski jumping juniors

Normal hill

space	athlete	country	Width 1	Width 2	Points
1	Michael Uhrmann	GER	103.0 m	102.0 m	266.5
2	Primož Peterka	SLO	103.5 m	098.5 m	258.5
3	Andreas Kuettel	SUI	096.0 m	098.5 m	245.0
4th	Michael Kury	AUT	096.0 m	097.5 m	240.5
5	Lars Egil Gran	NOR	097.0 m	094.5 m	234.0
6th	Alexander Lord	GER	094.5 m	096.5 m	231.5
7th	Kai Bracht	GER	095.0 m	093.5 m	230.0
8th	Jan Balcar	CZE	096.0 m	089.5 m	220.5
9	Jakub Sucháček	CZE	091.0 m	093.0 m	217.5
10	Karl-Heinz Dorner	AUT	090.5 m	093.0 m	216.0
...
13	Frank Reichel	GER	088.5 m	092.0 m	210.5
16	Martin Zimmermann	AUT	088.0 m	089.5 m	203.0
17th	Markus Eigenler	AUT	088.0 m	088.5 m	202.5
38	Rico Parpan	SUI	087.5 m	078.5 m	171.0
57	Marc Vogel	SUI	078.0 m	080.5 m	154.0
61	Christian Kryenbühl	SUI	083.5 m	080.5 m	142.0

Date: January 30, 1996

Team jumping normal hill

space	athlete	country	Width 1	Width 2	Points
1	Frank Reichel Kai Bracht Michael Uhrmann Alexander Herr	GER	87.0 m 88.5 m 92.0 m 90.0 m	90.5 m 92.0 m 98.0 m 92.5 m	861.5
2	Michael Kury Markus Eigenler Martin Zimmermann Karl-Heinz Dorner	AUT	91.5 m 87.5 m 86.5 m 92.0 m	97.5 m 92.5 m 88.5 m 93.0 m	860.0
3	Matija Stegnar Jaka Grosar Peter Žonta Primož Peterka	SLO	88.0 m 90.0 m 85.0 m 92.0 m	87.5 m 93.5 m 95.5 m 97.5 m	846.0
...
6th	Christian Kryenbühl Marc Vogel Rico Parpan Andreas Küttel	SUI	78.0 m 83.0 m 80.5 m 91.0 m	84.5 m 84.0 m 85.0 m 94.0 m	743.5

Date: February 1, 1996

Nations ranking

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Russia	3	0	1	4th
2	Germany	2	1	0	3
3	Finland	1	1	3	5
4th	Sweden	1	1	1	3
5	Italy	1	1	0	2
6th	United States	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
8th	Estonia	0	2	0	2
9	Slovenia	0	1	2	3
10	Austria	0	1	1	2
	Slovakia	0	1	1	1
12	France	0	1	0	1
13	Switzerland	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Cross-country results on www.wintersport-charts.info, accessed on May 17, 2019
• Results on the FIS website: Ski jumping , Nordic combined , accessed on May 17, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result cross-country skiing JWM 1996 men's relay on skisport365.com
2. ^ Result cross-country skiing JWM 1996 women's relay on skisport365.com
3. ↑ Result ski jumping individual , in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl, accessed on March 3, 2020 (Polish).
4. ↑ Result of the ski jumping team , in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl, accessed on March 3, 2020 (Polish).