#World U20 Championships

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U20 World Athletics Championships

Coverage of the U20 World Athletics Championships. Source link

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Italy secure stunning win against U20 Championship hosts South Africa

The World Rugby U20 Championship continued with stunning victories for Italy and Georgia and hard-fought wins for Ireland and Wales, while defending champions France were too strong for six-time champions New Zealand and England eased to victory over Fiji. Continue reading Untitled

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🇮🇷 Amirreza Masoumi is the 125Kg gold medallist of the U20 World Wrestling Championship 2024 (credits to amirrezamasoumi125)

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Karmen Bruus 🇪🇪

🥇 High Jump

2022 World Athletics Championships U20 (Cali)

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Haruna Morikawa (Japan) and Svenja Jungo (Switzerland) getting after it at the U20 World Championships

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touchstarved love interests in the olympics? yes.

this post by @enviousbug2 (sorry for the tag i'll remove it if you want) and now i have this headcanon? au? idk but they're going to the olympics, enjoy the wild amount of dates and years mentioned lolol

divider by @/cafekitsune

mhin - artistic gymnastics

they're 25 by the end of the 2024 summer olympics, born in 1999.

currently only participates on the horizontal bar event, but used to do the all-around.

participated in the olympics three times: in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

they got a bronze medal in 2020 and a silver in 2024 in the horizontal bar, but didn't get any while doing the all-around in 2016.

participated in the youth olympics in 2014 in the all-around, ended in 24th place.

did four rounds in the fig world cup! they got bronzes in 2018 and 2019 in the all-around, and silvers in the 2019 and 2020 horizontal bars!

ais - ski jumping

he's 24 by the end of the 2022 winter olympics, born in 1997.

participates in the individual large hill event for the olympics, but does normal hill on other competitions.

got a silver medal in 2018 and a gold medal in 2022, both in the olympics. those were the first olympic events he participated in.

has joined the fis world cup every year since 2014, regularly gets bronze and silver medals.

got his first gold medal when he was 20 years old, during the 2017/2018 season.

vere - figure skating

he's 25 by the end of the 2022 winter olympics, born in 1996.

currently participates in the men's singles competition, but used to be an ice dancer before his partner left figure skating.

started competing in 2010 as a junior, and in 2012 as a senior, both in the isu world championships. his first olympics were in 2018.

got a bronze in the 2018 olympics, and a silver in 2022, both in men's singles.

he has two bronze medals for his ice dancing, in 2011 and 2014. after changing to men's singles he got three silver medals and a gold, respectively in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023.

participated in the feminine categories until 2016, changed to masculine when he split off from his dance partner.

kuras - speed skating

he's 32 by the end of the 2022 winter olympics, born in 1990.

formerly an ice dancer in figure skating, currently does the 5000 metres event in speed skating.

has a bronze medal in ice dancing from the isu world championships, from 2014, and no olympic medals from figure skating.

has three silver medals in speed skating isu world cups, in 2017, 2020 and 2021. he also has two golds from the same competitions, in 2019 and 2024.

got a gold medal in his first olympics in speed skating, 2018, and a silver in 2022.

leander - athletics

he's 18 by the end of the 2024 summer olympics, born in 2006.

competed in the olympics for the first time in 2024 and got 4th place in the javelin throw.

got a silver medal in javelin in the 2023 world athletics u20 championships.

didn't always do javelin events, in the 2022 edition of the u20 championships did discus throw instead.

has practice with pole vaulting, but hasn't participated in any competitions for it.

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carter hughes

Carter Reese Hughes

Number: 86

Season: Second

Position: C

Height: 5”8

Hometown: Toronto, Ontario

S/C: R

NHL: VC

Prev Team: Regina Pats

WHL

•Drafted first overall in 2019, the first WHL player with exceptional status, and won the Jim Piggot Memorial Trophy as the league's top rookie player in her debut season. In her third year in the WHL, she won the Bob Clarke Trophy as the league's leading scorer and was given the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy as its most valuable player, before also earning the Canadian Hockey League’s Top Scorer and Player of a year honors.

NHL

• Selected 1st overall (first round) by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2022 NHL Draft.

International

Team Canada

2023 World Championship- Gold Medal, 9 G, 8 A, 10 GP. Most Goals, Assists and Points in the tournament.

2023 U20 World Junior Championship - Captain, Gold medal, 11 G, 15 A, 7 GP

2022 World Championship- Silver Medal, 8 G, 9 A, 10 GP.

2022 IIHF World U18 Championship- Silver Medal, 8 G, 10 A, 6 GP

2022 U20 World Junior Championship -Captain, Gold medal, 10 G, 9 A, 7 GP

2021 World Junior Championship- Silver Medal, 10 G, 8 A, 7 GP

2021 World Championship- Gold Medal, 9 G, 7 A, 10 GP

2021- IIHF World U18 Championship, Gold Medal, 10 G, 8 A, 6 GP

2019 World U-17 Hockey Challenge- Bronze Medal, 5 G, 6 A, 6 GP

2019-2020

Regina Pats

71 G, 69 A, 67 GP

2020-2021

Regina Pats

15 G, 17 A, 15 GP

Assistant Captain

HV71 Jr.

3 G, 1 A, 4 GP

2021-2022

Regina Pats

86 G, 81 A, 56 GP

Captain

2022-2023

Vancouver Canucks

68 G, 62 A, 140 P, 78 GP

Received the Rookie of the Year award.

Second in most points in the whole NHL.

Signed a Contract for 13 Million dollars for three years and a 1 million dollar signing bonus.

2023-2024

Vancouver Canucks

72 G, 80 A, 162 P, 82 GP

Hart Memorial Trophy.

Personal

• Born June 8, 2004

• Daughter of Jim and Ellen Hughes

• Has Three siblings, Quinn, Jack, Luke.

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How does world juniors work and where would one watch?

This is my first season watching the nhl and I’m from nz so I suspect we wont be represented lol but I’m keen to learn more and watch some! Any recommendations on what ones to watch?

omg anon WELCOME and also ... a brief WORLD JUNIORS PRIMER for you all...

Puppy Bowl!

If you're from NZ I'm not sure you know about the Puppy Bowl -- a show run concurrent to the Super Bowl, but all the participants are puppies? It means absolutely nothing but it is adorable. The World Juniors are basically that, but also it is exactly as important as the Olympics what are you talking about. Their official name is the "IIHF U-20 World Championship," which is a pretty self-explanatory name -- it's a tournament for players 20 and under (I believe they have to be at least sixteen, but because young athletes mature physically a LOT in those four years, the vast majority are eighteen-nineteen-twenty). Tradition dictates it starts on Boxing Day, and it runs for about three weeks -- it starts with a round-robin, followed by a single-elimination tournament, a bronze-medal match, and a relegation match.

Players are selected by their national hockey administration -- for Canada, it's Hockey Canada, but all countries within the IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation) have their own. The intricacies of ~Sports Bureaucracy~ are really long and only a LITTLE relevant, but every country ices the best roster they can, which means players are often "loaned" from CHL teams, NCAA universities, European league teams, or, occasionally, the NHL. (Note: You can usually tell how good a World Junior team is by how many players have been drafted/signed by NHL teams: the Canadians, Swedes, and Americans are almost always entirely draftees or under-18s, while the other teams in the upper division might only have a handful, or even only one, drafted player.)(Second note: The quality of a team has less correlation than you might think to them winning a single-elimination tournament.)

Like I said earlier, it starts with a round-robin: there are ten teams in the main WJ (we'll get to this in a second), divided into two groups of five, who each play each other once. The worst-performing team of each group is sent to the relegation match post-tournament, and the eight other teams do a single-elimination match until one team wins gold.

Teams and Divisions

This year, the top ten teams are: Canada, the US, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Norway, Czechia, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Latvia. Because of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is banned from participating in IIHF tournaments, but when it's not it's always in the top ten (likely instead of Norway, Switzerland, or Latvia.) UNLIKE the NHL, the IIHF has multiple "divisions" of teams, and at the end of the tournament the bottom two teams play a match to avoid relegation from the official ~IIHF World U20 Championship~ to Division I, which is right under it. There is also a Division II and a Division III -- and after some sleuthing, there IS a New Zealand team in Div III!!!!!

Canada and Broadcasting

Unfortunately, the WJC is basically only popular in Canada -- essentially a Boxing Day tradition to watch the babies play and cheer for our teams' prospects, or, usually, just Team Canada. In fact, Hockey Canada has bid to host it basically every other year until 2030. Because of this (or maybe a bit of a chicken-egg situation), the WJC is... kind of hard to find online if you're outside of Canada? I know for a fact it's broadcast on TSN (one of our sports networks) without any regional blackouts, but I don't think there's anything available in NZ that will be streaming it, especially because it's not one of the IIHF top ten countries. If you're not already doing so, you'll probably have to sail the high seas for your fix. (If you don't know where to do this, you can slide into my DMs and I can send you a link!)

Who to watch?

There's basically two routes for this: one, pick the team you think is going to win, or two, go look up what prospects your NHL team has that are playing at the WJC and watch them (Note: neither the Avs nor the Oilers have any WJC prospects this year!) The IIHF website has the game schedule listed, including time-zone adjusted start times -- they're all staggered, so if you have a lot of free time you might be able to watch more than one!

Personally, as both a Canadian and a Leafs fan -- both WJC-chosen Leafs prospects are Team Canada players, including their captain Fraser Minten -- I would recommend Team Canada (unashamed homer bias here.) They're usually one of the favourites to win, and they're almost entirely either drafted or not yet eligible, so you can see either your prospects or you can look at Celebrini and hope (if your team is bad) that he's coming to you one day. The Americans are generally considered Thee tournament favourites, if you prefer your teams highly touted.

To me, the WJC has twofold appeal: one, junior hockey is, for lack of a better term, messier than high-level hockey? Pucks are more likely to bounce in silly ways, rushes can get crazy, and you can get both a super high amount of shots and a super high amount of goals. Hormonal teenagers playing super high-stakes hockey for the first times in their lives and they can get really, really into it! The passion a kid has scoring a medal-winning goal in front of a sold-out crowd is absolutely unrivalled by all but the Cup Finals. (OMGGGGG THIS IS YOUR FIRST HOCKEY SEASON TOO... ok don't let me start talking about nhl playoffs because THIS is the puppy bowl that is the super bowl. but worse! i mean better but it's worse (for your cardiovascular health.))

Two, that these guys are still so young, and that at least a few of them have long, illustrious, potentially-Hall-of-Fame NHL careers ahead of them. For a lot of young stars, the World Juniors is an important part of their Lore. Watching someone become something as an adult after you've seen him as a junior is... magical? World Junior hockey is diamond-in-the-rough hockey. There's no polish, but it's the rawness of the million-dollar stone that sells it.

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Some world info on the devils that is playing in the world this won’t go in order of events.

Nico Hischier just set a new personal best in points at Worlds! 🫡 His primary assist on Kevin Fiala's PPG was his 10th point of the tournament (6GP), passing his 9 from 2019.

What an outlet pass out of the zone for Luke, he springs his teammates right out of there! From the far blueline sends the pass on the diagonal

USA takes a 1-0 lead on Kahzakstan.

Simon Nemec leads all Slovak defensemen through their five games with six points (1g-5a). His six points also tie a career-high at the tournament he set in 2022 (1g-5a, 8 GP).

Nico Hischier is currently the leading scorer among all forwards at this year's World Championship with nine points in five games (5g-4a). And he's second overall in the tournament scoring behind only his teammate Roman Josi’s 10 points. Just Nico being Nico. 🫡

Our Dawson seals the victory for Canada! Mercer once again on the ice for Canada defending a one-goal lead in the final moments the game. His second empty-netter of the tournament. Are we up?! Nico Hischier has a three-point game (1g-2A) going for Switzerland… all before the 4-minute mark of the second period. He’s factored in on 3 of the 4 Swiss goals against Denmark.

“My brother Jack was really disappointed he couldn’t come. It’s something he really wanted to do.” - Luke Hughes at Worlds Jack, of course, is recovering from surgery.

Ondrej Palat sets up Tomasek for Czechia’s fourth goal of the game against Austria.

Czechia getting a big boost on their Worlds roster as Martin Necas is on his way, less than 24 hours after the Hurricanes were eliminated from the playoffs. Czechia is hosting this year’s tournament.

The big man is back! Kurtis MacDermid re-ups with #NJDevils  on a three year deal!

Yesterday was a big day for our Simon Nemec. He etched his name in the IIHF history books. And all as a U20 player.

Big day for Nico Daws! Played his first game of Worlds, backstopping Canada to a 4-1 win over Norway *and* earning an assist on Canada’s 4th goal *and* gets a little kiss on the forehead! 😅 Way to go, Dawsy!

Your friend and mine, Luke Hughes with another point at the World Championship today. Secondary assist on Matt Boldy's first goal of the game.

We have re-signed forward Samuel Laberge to a one-year, two-way contract.

#NEWS: We have re-signed forward Brian Halonen to a two-year, two-way contract.

Akira Schmid posts a shutout for @SwissIceHockey against Great Britain. His first Worlds start. 15 saves. Nico Hischier with a goal and Jonas Siegenthaler with an assist. #NJDevils  reported for duty!

#MensWorlds goal-scoring leaders:

1. Oliver Kapanen, FIN - 5

2. Connor Bedard, CAN - 4

3. Nico Hischier, SUI - 3

Nemo! 🎯

Simon Nemec unleashes a bomb on the Slovak power play and puts Slovakia up 3-1 on the USA.

What a shot!

Hattrick for Nico Hischier against Austria - well done!

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Evgeni Malkin

IIHF World U20 Championship: Sweden v Russia

Russia defeated Sweden 5-1

11/26/2005

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Watch: U20 World Athletics Championships

Coverage of the U20 World Athletics Championships. Source link

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U20 Championship heavyweights headline match-day two

Ahead of Thursday’s action in Paarl and Stellenbosch, we bring you teams news from each of the 12 nations competing at the World Rugby U20 Championship 2023. Continue reading Untitled

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Wrestling highlights of the U20 World Wrestling Championship 2024 (credits to UWW)

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Torrie Lewis 🇦🇺

🥈 200 metres

2024 World Athletics Championships U20 (Lima)

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USA Olympic Women's Freestyle Wrestling Squad

Finally, wrestling starts this week! August 5th, we will be getting the start of all the wrestling competition. Best combat sport at the Olympics imo. Excited to see everyone compete. Here is a quick run through of the American women's squad.

Just some context: the team to beat is Japan. The Japanese women's team won 4 of the 6 gold medals available for freestyle wrestling at the 2020 games. The only two Japanese wrestlers who did not medal at all lost to Tamyra Mensah-Stock (who won gold for the US) in the opening round and lost in the final round of the repechage for bronze. That is the level of domination the US team (and the world) was up against.

Sarah Hildebrandt - 50 kg -Hildebrandt is a returning Olympic wrestler. She walked away with a bronze at the 2020 Olympics and is a regular on the podium at the world championships, winning 2 bronze and 2 silver over the years. Unfortunately for Hildebrandt, the field has been dominated by Yui Susaki (arguably the best female wrestler on the planet) since like 2017.

Dom Parrish - 53 kg - This will be Dom Parrish's first Olympics! She won gold at the world championships back in 2022 but went out in the first round of the 2023 world championships. The odds on favorite should be 20 year old Akari Fujinami. She won gold at the 2021 and 2023 world championships and is looking like another blue chip Japanese generational star in women's wrestling.

Helen Maroulis - 57 kg - Helen Maroulis is a veteran of the Olympic games and the first woman in American history to bring home gold for freestyle wrestling back in 2016. She did it in hyper impressive fashion, beating Saori Yoshida - the 2nd best credentialed female wrestler of all time - to do it. Sadly, Maroulis had a bunch of health issues that hindered her 2nd attempt in 2020 (she took bronze) and hasn't reached the same heights since. The favorite has to be 3x world champion Tsugumi Sakurai, another 20 year old phenom who is coming off winning the 2021, 2022, and 2023 gold medals at worlds.

Kayla Miracle - 62 kg - Miracle is looking to overwrite her 2020 experience. A medal hopeful for the US in Tokyo, she ended up losing in the first round of the competition. She's since won a silver medal at the 2021 and 2023 world championships, signalling more comfort in international competition. The favorite at 62 kg has to be Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan. She was the silver medalist at the 2020 Olympic games and is a 3x world champion.

Amit Elor - 68 kg - Japan is not the only country with young phenoms on the docket. 20 year old Amit Elor is the future of USA wrestling. She's won 7 gold medals at the world level (3 at the jr level, 2 at the U23 level, and 2 at the senior level). She's the odds on favorite to win at this weight class. She hasn't lost on the mat since 2019. She's only given up like 6 points at the senior level through 2 world championships. The main thing for Elor is that she's competing down in weight (she's normally 72 kg). There is some real talent at the weight class (Nonoka Ozaki, Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu, Blessing Oborududu, etc).

Kennedy Blades - 76 kg - I called Elor the future of USA wrestling but so is Kennedy Blades. 20 year old Blades beat out Adeline Gray (6x world champion, 2020 Olympic silver medalist, and most experienced American wrestler) to earn a spot on this roster. Only reason she didn't make the games in 2020 (when she was 17!) is because she lost in the finals of qualification to Tamyra Mensah-Stock, who won a gold medal. Blades was a gold medalist at the u20 world championships and a silver medalist at the U23 world championships. I imagine the favorite for this field would be 2023 champion, Yuka Kagami.

Back later with the guys freestyle team.

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Finnish 4x400m team 🇫🇮

Veera Mattila, Katriina Wright, Aada Aho and Ronja Koskela

2022 World Championships U20 (Cali)