The FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2018 took place in Kandersteg and Goms, Switzerland from 27 January to 4 February 2018. This was the 41st Junior World Championships and the 13th Under-23 World Championships in nordic skiing.

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+1).^[1]

Medal summary

Junior events

Cross-country skiing

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Junior Events
Men's junior sprint free[2]	Tom Mancini  France	2:59.77	Jørgen Lippert  Norway	2:59.87	Valerio Grond   Switzerland	3:05.34
Men's junior 10 kilometre classic[3]	Jon Rolf Skamo Hope  Norway	24:58.8	Sergey Ardashev  Russia	25:07.8	Jørgen Lippert  Norway	25:26.7
Men's junior 20 kilometre skiathlon[4]	Harald Østberg Amundsen  Norway	58:45.7	Jon Rolf Skamo Hope  Norway	59:20.4	Jørgen Lippert  Norway	59:45.8
Men's junior 4 × 5 kilometre relay[5]	Norway Harald Østberg Amundsen Jon Rolf Skamo Hope Håvard Moseby Jørgen Lippert	50:04.2	United States Luke Jager Ben Ogden Hunter Wonders Gus Schumacher	50:06.4	Russia Kirill Kilivnyuk Sergey Ardashev Yaroslav Rybochkin Alexander Terentyev	50:09.7
Ladies' Junior Events
Ladies' junior sprint free[6]	Moa Lundgren  Sweden	2:52.55	Kristine Stavås Skistad  Norway	2:54.44	Frida Karlsson  Sweden	2:54.91
Ladies' junior 5 kilometre classic[7]	Polina Nekrasova  Russia	13:58.7	Hailey Swirbul  United States	14:13.1	Anita Korva  Finland	14:24.1
Ladies' junior 10 kilometre skiathlon[8]	Frida Karlsson  Sweden	32:55.7	Lone Johansen  Norway	33:31.2	Hailey Swirbul  United States	33:31.9
Ladies' junior 4 × 3.33 kilometre relay[9]	Germany Alexandra Danner Celine Mayer Lisa Lohmann Anna-Maria Dietze	39:17.4	Russia Polina Nekrasova Hristina Matsokina Nina Dubotolkina Maya Yakunina	39:26.0	Sweden Tua Dahlgren Frida Karlsson Alicia Persson Johanna Hagström	40:04.9

Nordic combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual normal hill/10 km[10]	Ondřej Pažout  Czech Republic	22:58.3	Einar Lurås Oftebro  Norway	23:00.6	Ben Loomis  United States	23:06.6
Individual normal hill/5 km[11]	Vid Vrhovnik  Slovenia	11:28.8	Dominik Terzer  Austria	11:33.7	Jan Vytrval  Czech Republic	11:34.2
Team normal hill/4 × 5 km[12]	Austria Johannes Lamparter Florian Dagn Dominik Terzer Mika Vermeulen	56:33.0	Germany Tim Kopp Luis Lehnert Constantin Schnurr Julian Schmid	57:20.8	Norway Jens Lurås Oftebro Simen Kvarstad Andreas Skoglund Einar Lurås Oftebro	58:26.2

Ski jumping

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Junior Events
Men's individual normal hill[13]	Marius Lindvik  Norway	291.4	Constantin Schmid  Germany	282.1	Clemens Leitner  Austria	267.1
Men's team normal hill[14]	Germany Philipp Raimund Justin Lisso Cedrik Weigel Constantin Schmid	1068.5	Austria Mika Schwann Jan Hörl Maximilian Lienher Clemens Leitner	1063.7	Norway Fredrik Villumstad Jesper Ødegård Thomas Aasen Markeng Marius Lindvik	1037.0
Ladies' Junior Events
Ladies' individual normal hill[15]	Nika Križnar  Slovenia	262.6	Ema Klinec  Slovenia	248.3	Anna Odine Strøm  Norway	231.7
Ladies' team normal hill[16]	Slovenia Jerneja Brecl Nika Križnar Katra Komar Ema Klinec	733.1	Russia Ksenia Kablukova Alexandra Kustova Lidiia Iakovleva Sofia Tikhonova	622.7	France Océane Paillard Joséphine Pagnier Romane Dieu Lucile Morat	571.2
Mixed Junior Events
Mixed team normal hill[17]	Norway Silje Opseth Fredrik Villumstad Anna Odine Strøm Marius Lindvik	869.3	Germany Luisa Görlich Justin Lisso Gianina Ernst Constantin Schmid	855.0	Austria Claudia Purker Jan Hörl Sophie Mair Clemens Leitner	775.8

Under-23 events

Cross-country skiing

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Under-23 Events
Men's under-23 sprint free[18]	Erik Valnes  Norway	2:56.38	Jan Thomas Jenssen  Norway	2:56.62	Even Northug  Norway	3:02.72
Men's under-23 15 kilometre classic[19]	Mattis Stenshagen  Norway	36:28.3	Denis Spitsov  Russia	36:33.1	Ivan Yakimushkin  Russia	37:03.5
Men's under-23 30 kilometre skiathlon[20]	Denis Spitsov  Russia	1:18:14.9	Jules Lapierre  France	1:18:17.8	Ole Jørgen Bruvoll  Norway	1:18:36.4
Ladies' Under-23 Events
Ladies' under-23 sprint free[21]	Tiril Udnes Weng  Norway	2:50.24	Nadine Fähndrich   Switzerland	2:50.32	Natalya Nepryayeva  Russia	2:55.02
Ladies' under-23 10 kilometre classic[22]	Yana Kirpichenko  Russia	27:46.1	Anna Zherebyateva  Russia	28:00.0	Nadine Fähndrich   Switzerland	28:15.7
Ladies' under-23 15 kilometre skiathlon[23]	Anastasia Sedova  Russia	44:03.6	Natalya Nepryayeva  Russia	44:14.3	Yana Kirpichenko  Russia	44:40.8

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Switzerland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway (NOR)	8	6	7	21
2	Russia (RUS)	4	6	4	14
3	Slovenia (SLO)	3	1	0	4
4	Germany (GER)	2	3	0	5
5	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	2	4
6	Austria (AUT)	1	2	2	5
7	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
8	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	1	2
9	United States (USA)	0	2	2	4
10	Switzerland (SUI)*	0	1	2	3
11	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		22	22	22	66

References

External links

• jwsc2018.ch