World Junior Speed Skating Championships
In 1971, the ISU congress decided to hold a World Junior Speed Skating Championships. After two test-championships (1972 and 1973), where only boys were allowed to skate, the first official championship was introduced in Cortina d'Ampezzo. In this championship boys and girls could enter. Since this championship the World Junior Speed Skating Championships are held every year.
The distances the boys have to skate in a championship were the 500m, 1500m, 3000m, and the 5000m. In 2015 the 1000 metres replaced the 3000m as part of the allround competition. Girls have the 500m, 1000m, 1500m and the 3000m on the programme. In 2002 the team pursuit was added to the allround competition and the 2009 edition saw the introduction of medals for the individual distances. In 2015 the team sprint and mass start events were added.
History medallists boys
Year | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
1972 | Lisleby | Yuri Kondakov | Nikolay Kuzmenko | Terje Andersen |
1973 | Assen | Jan Heida | Nikolaj Kuzmenko | Kay Stenshjemmet |
1974 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Manfred Winter | Jan de Vries | Jan Miętus |
1975 | Strömsund | Masayuki Kawahara | Jan de Vries | Joop Pasman |
1976 | Madonna di Campiglio | Lee Young-ha | Eric Heiden | Jan de Vries |
1977 | Inzell | Eric Heiden | Jan Junell | Hilbert van der Duim |
1978 | Montreal | Eric Heiden | Vitaliy Zazerskiy | Tom Erik Oxholm |
1979 | Grenoble | Tomas Gustafson | Andreas Ehrig | Craig Kressler |
1980 | Assen | Tomas Gustafson | Craig Kressler | Sergej Berezin |
1981 | Elverum | Bjørn Nyland | Jean Pichette | Jörg Mademann |
1982 | Innsbruck | Geir Karlstad | Igor Zhelezovski | Jean Pichette |
1983 | Sarajevo | Andrej Bobrov | Viatsjeslav Vidov | Hansjörg Baltes |
1984 | Assen | Valeri Guk | Alexandr Klimov | Bronislav Snetkov |
1985 | Røros | Valeri Guk | Ildar Garaev | Bronislav Snetkov |
1986 | Sainte-Foy | Bronislav Snetkov | Ildar Garaev | Takuya Nakamura |
1987 | Strömsund | Masahiko Omura | Naoki Kotake | Michael Spielmann |
1988 | Seoul | Michael Spielmann | Cor-Jan Smulders | Naoki Kotake |
1989 | Kiev | Andrej Anufrienko | Rintje Ritsma | Naoki Kotake |
1990 | Obihiro | Falko Zandstra | Ådne Søndrål | Arjan Schreuder |
1991 | Calgary | Falko Zandstra | Sergey Baryshev | Keiji Shirahata |
1992 | Warsaw | Jeroen Straathof | Hiroyuki Noake | Jakko Jan Leeuwangh |
1993 | Baselga di Pinè | Brian Smith | Ids Postma | Keiji Shirahata |
1994 | Berlin | Jan Bos | Marco Kramer | Shinya Tanaka |
1995 | Seinäjoki | Bob de Jong | Mark Knoll | Yusuke Imai |
1996 | Calgary | Bob de Jong | Mark Knoll | Mitsuru Watanabe |
1997 | Butte | Jelmer Beulenkamp | André Vreugdenhil | Gijs Buitelaar |
1998 | Roseville | Dmitry Shepel | Mark Tuitert | Bjarne Rykkje |
1999 | Geithus | Mark Tuitert | Yuri Solinger | Choi Jae-bong |
2000 | Seinäjoki | Johan Röjler | Takaharu Nakajima | Jan Friesinger |
2001 | Groningen | Shingo Doi | Mun Jun | Yeo Sang-yeop |
2002 | Collalbo | Beorn Nijenhuis | Ivan Skobrev | Remco olde Heuvel |
2003 | Kushiro | Remco olde Heuvel | Robert Lehmann | Lee Seung-hwan |
2004 | Roseville | Justin Warsylewicz | Sven Kramer | Yeo Sang-yeop |
2005 | Seinäjoki | Sven Kramer | Wouter olde Heuvel | Håvard Bøkko |
2006 | Erfurt | Håvard Bøkko | Wouter olde Heuvel | Shingo Hashibami |
2007 | Innsbruck | Sjoerd de Vries | Tim Roelofsen | Trevor Marsicano |
2008 | Changchun | Jan Blokhuijsen | Koen Verweij | Berden de Vries |
2009 | Zakopane | Koen Verweij | Jonathan Kuck | Brian Hansen |
2010 | Moscow | Koen Verweij | Brian Hansen | Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu |
2011 | Seinäjoki | Sverre Lunde Pedersen | Simen Spieler Nilsen | Kristian Reistad Fredriksen |
2012 | Obihiro | Sverre Lunde Pedersen | Thomas Krol | Simen Spieler Nilsen |
2013 | Collalbo | Seo Jeong-su | Simen Spieler Nilsen | Andrea Giovannini |
2014 | Bjugn | Patrick Roest | Willem Hoolwerf | Emery Lehman |
2015 | Warsaw | Patrick Roest | Kim Min-seok | Marcel Bosker |
2016 | Changchun | Benjamin Donnelly | Kim Min-seok | Marcel Bosker |
2017 | Helsinki | Chris Huizinga | Allan Dahl Johansson | Tyson Langelaar |
2018 | Salt Lake City |