Ice Hockey World Championship 1983

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	Winner: Soviet Union

The games of the 49th Ice Hockey World Championships and 60th Ice Hockey European Championships in 1983 took place in the Federal Republic of Germany , Japan and Hungary . A total of 24 teams took part, the A-WM took place for the 5th time in Germany.

The boredom in the title fight in the previous year again led to minor but significant changes in the hosting of the A-WM . After the preliminary round, the points and goals gained here should not be carried over to the final round. In this way, the aim was to prevent the dominant Soviet selection from having an unassailable point advantage at the beginning of the final round. It was hoped that this would lead to a significant increase in tension at the IIHF , which was also achieved at this tournament. This new regulation was also called "Lex Soviet Union" in specialist circles. In addition, the relegation round was reintroduced. The teams took the preliminary round points with them. In this way, they wanted to ensure that surprise successes in the preliminary round were also reflected in the final accounts.

This year's A-WM brought the USSR the 19th title win, which set the record for the Canadians, as well as the 22nd European title. But the new mode led to a long-lost tension in the title fight. Ultimately, the decision on the title was made only on the goal difference.

Overview

competition	place	date	sub- contractor	viewers total	Games	O
A world championship	Dortmund , Düsseldorf , Munich	Apr 16, 1983 - May 2, 1983 0	8th	189,555	40	4,793
B world championship	Tokyo	21 Mar 1983 - March 31 1983	8th		28
C world championship	Budapest	11th Mar 1983 - March 20 1983	8th		28

A world championship

in Dortmund, Düsseldorf and Munich, FR Germany

Preliminary round

April 16, 1983	Dortmund	USSR	-	GDR	3: 0 (0: 0.2: 0.1: 0)
		BR Germany	-	Sweden	1: 5 (1: 1.0: 2.0: 2)
	Dusseldorf	Czechoslovakia	-	Finland	4: 2 (1: 0.1: 1.2: 1)
		Canada	-	Italy	6: 0 (2: 0.1: 0.3: 0)
April 17, 1983	Dortmund	Sweden	-	Canada	3: 2 (1: 1.2: 1.0: 0)
		Czechoslovakia	-	GDR	6: 1 (1: 0.1: 1.4: 0)
	Dusseldorf	USSR	-	Finland	3: 0 (1: 0.1: 0.1: 0)
		BR Germany	-	Italy	4: 0 (1: 0.1: 0.2: 0)
April 19, 1983	Dortmund	USSR	-	Canada	8: 2 (4: 1.2: 1.2: 0)
		Italy	-	GDR	1: 3 (1: 2.0: 1.0: 0)
	Dusseldorf	Czechoslovakia	-	Sweden	4: 1 (2: 1.2: 0.0: 0)
		BR Germany	-	Finland	4: 3 (3: 2.1: 0.0: 1)
April 20, 1983	Dortmund	Sweden	-	GDR	5: 4 (1: 0.3: 2.1: 2)
		BR Germany	-	USSR	0: 6 (0: 2.0: 2.0: 2)
April 21, 1983	Dortmund	Czechoslovakia	-	Canada	1: 3 (1: 0.0: 0.0: 3)
		Finland	-	Italy	6: 2 (3: 0.0: 2.3: 0)
April 22, 1983	Dortmund	Canada	-	Finland	5: 1 (2: 1.3: 0.0: 0)
		BR Germany	-	GDR	4: 3 (1: 1.1: 1.2: 1)
April 23, 1983	Dortmund	USSR	-	Czechoslovakia	5: 1 (1: 1.1: 0.3: 0)
		Sweden	-	Italy	5: 1 (1: 1.1: 0.3: 0)
April 24, 1983	Dortmund	Sweden	-	Finland	4: 4 (0: 2.2: 1.2: 1)
		USSR	-	Italy	11: 1 (4: 1.5: 0.2: 0)
	Munich	BR Germany	-	Czechoslovakia	3: 3 (1: 0.0: 3.2: 0)
		Canada	-	GDR	5: 2 (3: 1.1: 1.1: 0)
April 25, 1983	Munich	Finland	-	GDR	4: 6 (1: 1.1: 1.2: 4)
		BR Germany	-	Canada	1: 3 (0: 0.1: 2.0: 1)
April 26, 1983	Munich	Czechoslovakia	-	Italy	11: 0 (3: 0.4: 0.4: 0)
		USSR	-	Sweden	5: 3 (1: 1.4: 2.0: 0)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	USSR	7th	7th	0	0	41: 7	+34	14: 0
2	Canada	7th	5	0	2	26:16	+10	10: 4
3	Czechoslovakia	7th	4th	1	2	30:15	+15	9: 5
4th	Sweden	7th	4th	1	2	26:21	+5	9: 5
5	BR Germany	7th	3	1	3	17:23	−6	7: 7
6th	GDR	7th	2	0	5	19:28	−9	4:10
7th	Finland	7th	1	1	5	20:28	−8	3:11
8th	Italy	7th	0	0	7th	5:46	−41	0:14

Relegation round for places 5–8

(Points from the preliminary round also taken over)

April 27, 1983	Munich	BR Germany	-	Italy	5: 4 (1: 1.2: 2.2: 1)
		GDR	-	Finland	6: 2 (1: 0.1: 1.4: 1)
April 29, 1983	Munich	GDR	-	Italy	1: 3 (0: 0.0: 2.1: 1)
		BR Germany	-	Finland	2: 4 (0: 2.2: 0.0: 2)
May 1, 1983	Munich	Finland	-	Italy	4: 4 (1: 1.2: 3.1: 0)
		BR Germany	-	GDR	7: 3 (1: 0.2: 2.4: 1)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	BR Germany	10	5	1	4th	31:34	−3	11: 9
2	GDR	10	3	0	7th	29:40	−11	6:14
3	Finland	10	2	2	6th	30:40	−10	6:14
4th	Italy	10	1	1	8th	16:56	−40	3:17

Championship round for places 1–4

(without points from the preliminary round)

April 28, 1983	Munich	USSR	-	Sweden	4: 0 (2: 0.2: 0.0: 0)
		Canada	-	Czechoslovakia	4: 5 (1: 2.2: 3.1: 0)
April 30, 1983	Munich	Canada	-	Sweden	3: 1 (1: 0.1: 1.1: 0)
		USSR	-	Czechoslovakia	1: 1 (0: 0.1: 0.0: 1)
May 2nd 1983	Munich	Czechoslovakia	-	Sweden	4: 1 (0: 0.4: 0.0: 1)
		USSR	-	Canada	8: 2 (1: 1.3: 0.4: 1)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	USSR	3	2	1	0	13: 3	+10	5: 1
2	Czechoslovakia	3	2	1	0	10: 6	+4	5: 1
3	Canada	3	1	0	2	9:14	−5	2: 4
4th	Sweden	3	0	0	3	2:11	−9	0: 6

Final placement of the World Cup

RF	team
1	Soviet Union
2	Czechoslovakia
3	Canada
4th	Sweden
5	BR Germany
6th	GDR
7th	Finland
8th	Italy

Relegated:	Italy
Climbers	United States

Final table of the EM

(rated after the preliminary round)

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	USSR	6th	6th	0	0	33: 5	+28	12: 0
2	Czechoslovakia	6th	4th	1	1	29:12	+17	9: 3
3	Sweden	6th	3	1	2	23:19	+4	7: 5
4th	BR Germany	6th	3	1	2	16:20	−4	7: 5
5	GDR	6th	2	0	4th	17:23	−6	4: 8
6th	Finland	6th	1	1	4th	19:23	−4	3: 9
7th	Italy	6th	0	0	6th	5:40	−35	0:12

Master teams

World Champion USSR	Vladislav Tretiak , Vladimir Myshkin - Sergei Babinow , Sinetula Bilyaletdinov , Irek Gimajew , Vladimir Zubkov , Alexei Kassatonow , Vasily Pervukhin , Sergei Starikov , Vyacheslav Fetisov , Helmut Balderis , Vyacheslav Bykov , Andrei Chomutow , Mikhail Vasilyev , Viktor Schluktow , Sergei Kapustin , Vladimir Krutov , Igor Larionow , Sergei Makarow , Alexander Malzew , Sergei Schepelew , Alexander Skworzow Coaching staff : Viktor Wassiljewitsch Tichonow , Vladimir Jursinow
Silver Czechoslovakia	Jiří Králík , Dominik Hasek - Frantisek Musil , Milan Chalupa , Miroslav Dvořák , Eduard Uvíra , Arnold Kadlec , Jaroslav Benák , Radoslav Svoboda - Igor Liba , Pavel Richter , František Černík , Oldřich Válek , vladimír růžička , dárius rusnák , Vladimír Caldr , Jiří Lála , Dušan Pašek senior , Ladislav Svozil , Vincent Lukáč , Jiří Hrdina , František Černý Coaching staff : Luděk Bukač , Stanislav Neveselý
Bronze Canada	Rick Wamsley , Mike Veisor - Doug Halward , Scott Stevens , Rick Lanz , James Patrick , Tim Watters , Brian Engblom , Craig Hartsburg - Gordon Sherven , Mike Gartner , Marcel Dionne , Michel Goulet , Dave Taylor , Dennis Maruk , Charlie Simmer , Bob Gainey , Pat Flatley , Brian Propp , Darryl Sittler , John Anderson , Paul Reinhart Coaching staff : Dave King , Jean Perron , George Kingston

Best scorer

	player	Games	Gates	Assists	Points
1.	Sergei Makarov	10	9	9	18th
2.	Vladimir Krutov	10	8th	7th	15th
3.	Jiří Lála	10	9	5	14th
4th	Igor Larionov	10	5	7th	12
	Erich Kühnhackl	10	5	7th	12

B world championship

in Tokyo, Japan

Games

March 21, 1983	Tokyo	Japan	-	Yugoslavia	3: 2 (0: 0.2: 1.1: 1)
		Norway	-	Romania	5: 3 (3: 1.2: 2.0: 0)
March 22, 1983	Tokyo	Poland	-	Norway	7: 1 (4: 1.1: 0.2: 0)
		Austria	-	Switzerland	8: 8 (2: 3.3: 2.3: 3)
		United States	-	Yugoslavia	13: 2 (1: 0.6: 0.6: 2)
March 23, 1983	Tokyo	United States	-	Romania	6: 2 (1: 0.1: 1.4: 1)
		Japan	-	Switzerland	3: 3 (1: 1.2: 1.0: 1)
March 24, 1983	Tokyo	Poland	-	Yugoslavia	12: 2 (4: 1.3: 0.5: 1)
		Austria	-	Norway	3: 2 (1: 1.2: 0.0: 1)
		Japan	-	Romania	6: 2 (2: 1.1: 0.3: 1)
March 25, 1983	Tokyo	Poland	-	Austria	5: 5 (2: 2.0: 2.3: 1)
		United States	-	Switzerland	5: 2 (0: 0.2: 0.3: 2)
March 26, 1983	Tokyo	Romania	-	Yugoslavia	7: 7 (3: 2.2: 3.2: 2)
		Japan	-	Norway	4: 5 (1: 3.2: 1.1: 1)
March 27, 1983	Tokyo	Poland	-	Switzerland	6: 4 (4: 1.1: 2.1: 1)
		United States	-	Austria	3: 3 (1: 2.1: 0.1: 1)
March 28, 1983	Tokyo	Norway	-	Yugoslavia	6: 2 (1: 2.1: 0.4: 0)
		Romania	-	Switzerland	4: 3 (2: 1.2: 1.0: 1)
		United States	-	Poland	6: 2 (0: 1.6: 0.0: 1)
		Japan	-	Austria	5: 5 (1: 1.2: 0.2: 4)
March 30, 1983	Tokyo	Austria	-	Romania	12: 2 (1: 0.6: 1.5: 1)
		Switzerland	-	Yugoslavia	4: 1 (1: 0.3: 0.0: 1)
		United States	-	Norway	8: 2 (2: 1.5: 0.1: 1)
		Japan	-	Poland	1: 2 (0: 1.1: 0.0: 1)
March 31, 1983	Tokyo	Norway	-	Switzerland	8: 1 (2: 1.4: 0.2: 0)
		Austria	-	Yugoslavia	5: 2 (2: 1.2: 1.1: 0)
		Poland	-	Romania	9: 0 (4: 0.1: 0.4: 0)
		Japan	-	United States	1:12 (0: 4.0: 2.1: 6)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	United States	7th	6th	1	0	53:14	+39	13: 1
2	Poland	7th	5	1	1	43:19	+24	11: 3
3	Austria	7th	3	4th	0	41:27	+14	10: 4
4th	Norway	7th	4th	0	3	29:28	+1	8: 6
5	Japan	7th	2	2	3	23:31	−8	6: 8
6th	Switzerland	7th	1	2	4th	25:35	−10	4:10
7th	Romania	7th	1	1	5	20:48	−28	3:11
8th	Yugoslavia	7th	0	1	6th	18:50	−32	1:13

Ascent and descent

B world champion 1983:	United States
Promoted to the A group:	United States
Relegated from the A group:	Italy
Relegated to the C group:	Romania, Yugoslavia
Newcomers from the C group:	Netherlands, Hungary

C world championship

in Budapest, Hungary

Games

March 11, 1983	Budapest	Denmark	-	France	5: 2 (2: 0.3: 0.0: 2)
		Netherlands	-	Bulgaria	7: 2 (2: 1.0: 1.5: 0)
		China	-	North Korea	5: 2 (2: 2.0: 0.3: 0)
		Hungary	-	Spain	17: 2 (5: 0.5: 1.7: 1)
March 12, 1983	Budapest	Hungary	-	France	3: 1 (1: 0.2: 1.0: 0)
		Netherlands	-	North Korea	11: 1 (4: 1.2: 0.5: 0)
March 13, 1983	Budapest	Denmark	-	Spain	4: 0 (1: 0.3: 0.0: 0)
		China	-	Bulgaria	5: 1 (3: 0.1: 1.1: 0)
March 14, 1983	Budapest	Hungary	-	North Korea	14: 1 (0: 0.9: 0.5: 1)
		Netherlands	-	France	10: 0 (3: 0.2: 0.5: 0)
		Denmark	-	Bulgaria	4: 5 (1: 3.0: 1.3: 1)
		China	-	Spain	5: 0 (1: 0.1: 0.3: 0)
March 15, 1983	Budapest	France	-	North Korea	24: 1 (8: 0.7: 1.9: 0)
		Hungary	-	Netherlands	5:12 (1: 5.1: 6.3: 1)
March 16, 1983	Budapest	China	-	Denmark	6: 1 (2: 1.4: 0.0: 0)
		Bulgaria	-	Spain	4: 4 (0: 0.2: 1.2: 3)
March 17, 1983	Budapest	Netherlands	-	China	12: 1 (5: 0.4: 1.3: 0)
		France	-	Spain	7: 1 (1: 0.3: 1.3: 0)
		Bulgaria	-	North Korea	4: 5 (1: 1.1: 2.2: 2)
		Hungary	-	Denmark	0: 4 (0: 0.0: 2.0: 2)
March 19, 1983	Budapest	Hungary	-	Bulgaria	7: 2 (1: 0.4: 1.2: 1)
		Netherlands	-	Spain	16: 2 (4: 1.7: 0.5: 1)
		Denmark	-	North Korea	6: 3 (3: 1.3: 2.0: 0)
		China	-	France	3: 3 (1: 0.1: 0.1: 3)
March 20, 1983	Budapest	Spain	-	North Korea	8: 2 (2: 0.3: 2.3: 0)
		Netherlands	-	Denmark	10: 0 (2: 0.4: 0.4: 0)
		France	-	Bulgaria	4: 2 (1: 1.2: 0.1: 1)
		Hungary	-	China	4: 3 (2: 1.1: 1.1: 1)

Closing table

RF	team	Sp	Sg	U.N	NL	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Netherlands	7th	7th	0	0	78:11	+67	14: 0
2	Hungary	7th	5	0	2	50:25	+25	10: 4
3	People's Republic of China	7th	4th	1	2	28:23	+5	9: 5
4th	Denmark	7th	4th	0	3	24:26	−2	8: 6
5	France	7th	3	1	3	41:25	+16	7: 7
6th	Bulgaria	7th	1	1	5	20:36	−16	3:11
7th	Spain	7th	1	1	5	17:55	−38	3:11
8th	North Korea	7th	1	0	6th	15:72	−57	2:12

Ascent and descent

C world champion 1983:	Netherlands
Moving up to the B group:	Netherlands Hungary
Relegated from group B:	Romania, Yugoslavia

See also

• Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1983