Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 1998

The 31st Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1998 took place from January 21st to 25th, 1998 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Thus, after 1977 ( Sainte-Croix ) and 1985 ( Täsch ), Switzerland hosted this most important junior competition in Nordic skiing for the third time. St. Moritz, one of the most traditional winter sports locations in the Alps , where the Olympic Winter Games in 1928 and 1948 had already taken place, was selected for the Junior World Championships. After Lake Placid (1986 Junior World Championships) and Calgary in the previous year, St. Moritz was only the third Olympic city to host World Junior Championships.

The most successful nation of the competitions was Finland with two gold, one silver and two bronze medals, whereby the northern Europeans were able to succeed especially in the Nordic combined , in which they won both competitions.

Competition venues

The ski jumping competitions and the Nordic combined jumping were held on the Olympic hill , which had been modernized again especially for the Junior World Championships and on which international jumping competitions were held for the first time in six years. The cross-country skiing competitions for specialists and combiners took place on the trails in Pontresina , a few kilometers away .

Cross-country juniors

10 km freestyle

space	athlete	country	time
1	Andreas Koiser	Austria	25: 27.0 min
2	Ivan Margaroli	Italy	25: 30.6 min
3	Martin Koukal	Czech Republic	25: 45.5 min
4th	Ron Spanuth	Germany	25: 48.1 min
5	Florian Kostner	Italy	25: 48.5 min
6th	Loris Frasnelli	Italy	25: 57.0 min
7th	Johannes Eder	Austria	25: 59.8 min
8th	Axel Teichmann	Germany	26: 06.5 min
9	Tore Ruud Hofstad	Norway	26: 06.8 min
10	Bruno Debertolis	Italy	26: 24.1 min
...
23	Jürgen Pinter	Austria	26: 54.2 min
37	Alexander Black	Austria	27: 18.0 min
40	Philipp Schmider	Germany	27: 20.6 min
42	Andrea Florinett	Switzerland	27: 28.5 min
48	Gabriel Huber	Switzerland	27: 47.4 min
56	Andreas Zihlmann	Switzerland	28: 09.2 min
57	Tino Mettler	Switzerland	28: 09.8 min
58	Jan Kirchbach	Germany	28: 10.7 min

Date: January 21, 1998

30 km classic

space	athlete	country	time
1	Alexey Lushkin	Russia	1: 27: 16.9 h
2	Alexandre Nikitenko	Russia	1: 27: 17.6 h
3	Krister Trondsen	Norway	1: 27: 47.3 h
4th	Ivan Margaroli	Italy	1: 28: 23.3 h
5	Florian Kostner	Italy	1: 28.36.0 h
6th	Shunsuke Komamura	Japan	1: 28: 56.3 h
7th	Robert Whitney	United States	1: 29: 02.8 h
8th	Lauri Pyykönen	Finland	1: 29: 17.6 h
9	Lukas Havlin	Czech Republic	1: 29: 23.6 h
10	Hans Leithe	Norway	1: 29: 36.92 h
...
15th	Ron Spanuth	Germany	1: 30: 37.5 h
16	Axel Teichmann	Germany	1: 30: 45.9 h
19th	Johannes Eder	Austria	1: 31: 08.1 h
28	Andreas Koiser	Austria	1: 32: 06.4 h
36	Jan Kirschbach	Germany	1: 33: 03.7 h
38	Jens Filbrich	Germany	1: 33: 26.6 h
43	Andrea Florinett	Switzerland	1: 33: 55.4 h
46	Marc Mayer	Austria	1: 34: 09.0 h

Date: January 25, 1998

4 × 10 km relay

space	athlete	country
1	Norbert Pelc Lukas Havlin Ondrej Biman Martin Koukal	Czech Republic
2	Krister Trondsen Hans Leithe Tore Ruud Hofstad Brynjar Skjærli	Norway
3	Ivan Margaroli Florian Kostner Bruno Debertolis Loris Frasnelli	Italy

Cross-country juniors

5 km freestyle

space	athlete	country	time
1	Katrin Šmigun	Estonia	14: 03.2 min
2	Claudia Künzel	Germany	14: 04.6 min
3	Zuzana Kocumova	Czech Republic	14: 07.2 min
4th	Evi Sachsenbacher	Germany	14: 16.4 min
5	Pirjo Manninen	Finland	14: 17.7 min
6th	Laurence Rochat	Switzerland	14: 25.6 min
7th	Lina Andersson	Sweden	14: 26.4 min
9	Pia Tarvainen	Finland	14: 38.4 min
10	Jana Rehemaa	Estonia	14: 41.4 min
11	Mariana Handler	Sweden	14: 45.1 min
...
16	Mandy Kämpf	Germany	14: 55.0 min
28	Regula Hulliger	Switzerland	15: 10.0 min
30th	Isabel Klaus	Germany	15: 10.7 min
40	Flurina Bachmann	Switzerland	15: 23.2 min
42	Karin Camenisch	Switzerland	15: 26.6 min
69	Marion Walser	Liechtenstein	16: 28.2 min

Date: January 21, 1998

15 km classic

space	athlete	country	time
1	Hilde Glomsås	Norway	48: 25.6 min
2	Marina Lajskaia	Russia	48: 56.0 min
3	Katrin Šmigun	Estonia	49: 17.5 min
4th	Pirjo Manninen	Finland	49: 25.7 min
5	Lina Andersson	Sweden	49: 29.7 min
6th	Zuzana Kocumova	Czech Republic	49: 43.6 min
8th	Steffi Völkel	Germany	49: 53.5 min
10	Evi Sachsenbacher	Germany	50: 08.1 min
11	Claudia Künzel	Germany	50: 17.0 min
12	Elena Kolomina	Kazakhstan	50: 25.4 min
...
38	Regula Hulliger	Switzerland	53: 01.5 min
49	Karin Camenisch	Switzerland	53: 55.1 min
53	Marion Walser	Liechtenstein	54: 14.3 min
68	Saskia Boesch	Switzerland	55: 32.9 min

Date: January 25, 1998

4 × 5 km relay

space	athlete	country
1	Lina Andersson Jenny Olsson Anna-Karin Strömstedt Mariana Handler	Sweden
2	Krista Uusitalo Jenni Suikka Piia Tarvainen Pirjo Muranen	Finland
3	Marina Lajskaia Denisova Ludmila Boltneva Tatjana Vodolazova Olga Rotschewa	Russia

Date: January 1998

Nordic combined juniors

Gundersen (normal hill K 95/10 km)

space	athlete	country
1	Hannu Manninen	Finland
2	Samppa Lajunen	Finland
3	David Kreiner	Austria

Date: January 22, 1998

Team (normal hill K95 / 4x5 km)

space	athlete	country
1	Mikko Keskinarkaus Jaakko Tallus Samppa Lajunen Hannu Manninen	Finland
2	Gorazd Robnik Jure Kosmač Marko Šimic Igor Cuznar	Slovenia
3	Christoph Engel Lucas Vonlanthen Roger Kamber Andy Hartmann	Switzerland

Date: January 23, 1998

Ski jumping juniors

Normal hill

space	athlete	country	Width 1	Width 2	Points
1	Wolfgang Loitzl	Austria	94.5 m	93.0 m	231.5
2	Kazuhiro Nakamura	Japan	93.5 m	89.0 m	219.0
3	Matti Hautamäki	Finland	89.5 m	92.5 m	216.0
4th	Michael Wagner	Germany	89.5 m	92.0 m	214.5
5	Choi Heung-chul	South Korea	90.0 m	89.5 m	211.0
6th	Arne Sneli	Norway	90.0 m	89.5 m	210.0
7th	Blaž Vrhovnik	Slovenia	89.5 m	88.0 m	205.5
8th	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	90.0 m	85.0 m	201.0
9	Miha Rihtar	Slovenia	91.5 m	83.0 m	198.0
	Choi Seou	South Korea	88.5 m	85.0 m	198.0
...
13	Frank Loeffler	Germany	84.5 m	83.0 m	185.0
19th	Wilfried Eberharter	Austria	83.5 m	80.5 m	175.5
20th	Martin Koch	Austria	86.0 m	80.0 m	175.0
23	Georg Späth	Germany	83.0 m	78.5 m	171.5
24	Werner Kladler	Austria	86.5 m	75.5 m	170.0
26th	Marcel Schaffrath	Germany	81.5 m	80.5 m	168.5

Date: January 24, 1998

Team jumping normal hill

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Frank Löffler Georg Späth Stefan Pieper Michael Wagner	Germany ´	787.5
2	Homare Kishimoto Keita Umezaki Kazuki Nishishita Kazuhiro Nakamura	Japan	747.5
3	Pekka Salminen Hannu Alakunnas Jani Mylläri Matti Hautamäki	Finland	741.0

Date: January 22, 1998

Nations ranking

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Finland	2	2	2	6th
2	Austria	2	0	1	3
3	Russia	1	2	1	4th
4th	Germany	1	1	0	2
5	Norway	1	0	1	2
6th	Estonia	1	0	1	2
7th	Sweden	1	0	0	1
8th	Japan	0	2	0	2
9	Italy	0	1	0	1
9	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
11	Czech Republic	0	0	2	2
12	Switzerland	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Results on the FIS website: cross-country skiing , ski jumping , Nordic combined

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result JWM relay men
2. ^ Result JWM relay women