2008 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships

The FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2008 took place in Mals, Italy and Zakopane, Poland from 23 February to 29 February 2008. It was the 31st Junior World Championships and the 3rd Under-23 World Championships in nordic skiing.

FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2008

Host city	Mals, Italy Zakopane, Poland
Events	20
Opening	23 February
Closing	29 February
← 2007 Planica/Tarvisio Praz de Lys-Sommand/Štrbské Pleso 2009 →

Medal summary

Junior events

Cross-country skiing

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Junior Events
Men's junior sprint free[1]	Calle Halfvarsson  Sweden		Jesper Modin  Sweden		Raul Shakirzianov  Russia
Men's junior 10 kilometre classic[2]	Hans Christer Holund  Norway	28:50.3	Alex Harvey  Canada	28:58.5	Tim Tscharnke  Germany	29:09.5
Men's junior 20 kilometre free mass start[3]	Philipp Marschall  Germany	48:29.6	Petr Sedov  Russia	48:30.1	Andrey Gridin  Kazakhstan	48:30.1
Men's junior 4 × 5 km relay[4]	Russia Andrey Feller Petr Sedov Evgeniy Garanichev Raul Shakirzianov	59:06.1	Germany Hannes Dotzler Thomas Bing Philipp Marschall Tim Tscharnke	59:06.3	Kazakhstan Gennadiy Matviyenko Vitaly Alexandrov Andrey Gridin Mark Starostin	59:41.8
Ladies' Junior Events
Ladies' junior sprint free[5]	Laure Barthélémy  France		Aurelie Dabudyk  France		Lucia Anger  Germany
Ladies' junior 5 kilometre classic[6]	Therese Johaug  Norway	14:54.0	Ingvild Flugstad Østberg  Norway	14:58.5	Lucia Anger  Germany	15:05.5
Ladies' junior 10 kilometre free mass start[7]	Therese Johaug  Norway	25:24.7	Laure Barthélémy  France	25:28.7	Lisa Larsen  Sweden	25:29.2
Ladies' junior 4 × 3.33 km relay[8]	Norway Celine Brun-Lie Therese Johaug Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Marthe Kristoffersen	41:50.1	Sweden Hanna Brodin Therese Svensson Lisa Larsen Hanna Falk	41:51.1	Finland Johanna Heinanen Kerttu Niskanen Satu Annila Krista Lähteenmäki	41:54.1

Nordic Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Normal hill/5 km[9]	Alessandro Pittin  Italy	31:37.9	Tomaz Druml  Austria	32:41.5	Janne Ryynänen  Finland	33:36.9
Normal hill/10 km[10]	Alessandro Pittin  Italy	28:31.7	Johannes Rydzek  Germany	29:37.6	Ole Christian Wendel  Norway	29:52.4
Team normal hill/4 × 5 km[11]	Germany Wolfgang Bösl Markus Förster Andreas Günter Stefan Tuss	59:32.9	Austria Dominik Dier Johannes Weiss Robert Hauser Tomaz Druml	1:00:03.1	Norway Ole Christian Wendel Truls Sønstehagen Johansen Per Sannes Heger Ole Martin Storlien	1:01:09.2

Ski jumping

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Junior Events
Men's junior individual normal hill[12]	Andreas Wank  Germany	251.5	Shohhei Tochimoto  Japan	249.5	Andreas Strolz  Austria	246.0
Men's junior team normal hill[13]	Austria Thomas Thurnbichler Michael Hayböck Florian Schabereiter Lukas Müller	981.5	Germany Tobias Bogner Felix Schoft Danny Queck Pascal Bodmer	978.5	Poland Andrzej Zapotoczny Jakub Kot Grzegorz Mietus Maciej Kot	937.0
Ladies' Junior Events
Ladies' junior individual normal hill[14]	Jacqueline Seifriedsberger  Austria	227.0	Elena Runggaldier  Italy	225.5	Katja Pozun  Slovenia	222.5

Under-23 events

Cross-country skiing

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Under-23 Events
Men's under-23 sprint free[15]	Robin Bryntesson  Sweden		Cyril Miranda  France		Nikolay Morilov  Russia
Men's under-23 15 kilometre classic[16]	Martin Jakš  Czech Republic	42:10.2	Alexey Poltoranin  Kazakhstan	42:42.5	Petter Eliassen  Norway	43:15.4
Men's under-23 30 kilometre free mass start[17]	Dario Cologna  Switzerland	1:07:22.6	Ilia Chernousov  Russia	1:07:23.4	Maurice Manificat  France	1:07:25.2
Ladies' Under-23 Events
Ladies' under-23 sprint free[18]	Vesna Fabjan  Slovenia		Ida Ingemarsdotter  Sweden		Mari Laukkanen  Finland
Ladies' under-23 10 kilometre classic[19]	Olga Tiagai  Russia	29:41.6	Aurore Cuinet  France	29:53.5	Silja Tarvonen  Finland	30:18.9
Ladies' under-23 15 kilometre free mass start[20]	Olga Tiagai  Russia	37:03.4	Silja Tarvonen  Finland	37:24.2	Elizabeth Stephen  United States	37:25.1

Medal table

All events

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	4	1	3	8
2	Norway (NOR)	4	1	2	7
3	Russia (RUS)	3	2	2	7
4	Austria (AUT)	2	3	1	6
	Sweden (SWE)	2	3	1	6
6	France (FRA)	1	4	1	6
7	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
8	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	0	2
9	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	1	2
10	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
11	Finland (FIN)	0	1	4	5
12	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	2	3
13	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
15	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		20	20	20	60

Junior events

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	4	1	3	8
2	Norway (NOR)	4	1	1	6
3	Austria (AUT)	2	3	1	6
4	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	1	4
5	France (FRA)	1	2	0	3
6	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
8	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
11	Finland (FIN)	0	0	2	2
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	2	2
13	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		14	14	14	42

Under-23 events

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	2	1	1	4
2	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
6	France (FRA)	0	2	1	3
7	Finland (FIN)	0	1	2	3
8	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
9	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		6	6	6	18