Ice hockey world championship 1992

	Ice Hockey World Championship
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	Winner: Sweden

The A group of 56th World Ice Hockey Championships the men was from 28 April to 10 May in Prague and Bratislava in Czechoslovakia played. The other groups played in Austria , Great Britain and South Africa . A total of 32 teams took part in these world championships, which was a new record.

There have been a number of changes this year. For the first time since 1976, a world championship was held in an Olympic year. The reason for this lay mainly in the IIHF's financial considerations , which promised itself more income. Furthermore, the A group played for the first time with 12 teams. For this increase, too, financial reasons were primarily decisive. The increase required a new mode: After a preliminary round in two groups of six teams each, the four best placed in each group reach the quarter-finals and play the world champion in the knockout system. The last two in each group determine the relegated team in a direct duel. For the fifth place, the World Cup is over after the preliminary round. The final placement of the teams eliminated in the quarter-finals and the two fifth-placed teams is calculated based on their performance in the preliminary round. It was also new that there was no longer a European Championship this year . The tradition of a European continental championship, which had existed since 1910 and had not been played in a separate tournament since 1933 (previously in 1928 , 1930 and 1931 ), but as part of the World Cup games, came to an end with the 1991 World Cup .

There were also innovations in the area of ​​the C group. One of the aims of the A group increase was to make room in the C group for other teams on the waiting list. However, an unusually large number of teams registered this year. Four newcomers to the World Cup took part in Israel, Luxembourg, Greece and Turkey; In addition, there was South Africa, which appeared again in the world championships for the first time since the 1960s. So the IIHF decided to reintroduce the D group. However, it got a new name and was now called the C2 group, while the classic C group was named C1 group. Both groups played with six teams each. In the C1 group, the five teams that played in the C group last year and were not promoted played; in addition there was Australia. The four newcomers to the World Cup, South Africa (for the first time since 1966) and Spain (paused in 1990) played in the C2 group.

The dramatic political changes in Eastern Europe also had an impact on this Ice Hockey World Championship. In the winter of 1991 the old Soviet Union had split up into 12 states. The three Baltic states had previously separated . In particular, the Russian Federation was considered the legal successor to the USSR, which also took the place of the Soviet Union in the A group at the Ice Hockey World Championships. Those successor states, in which some good ice hockey was also played, should only get a chance to intervene in the action at the upcoming World Cup.

Sweden successfully defended their title and became world champions for the sixth time. After a rather weak preliminary round, the Swedes improved from the quarterfinals and defeated arch-rivals Finland 5-2 in the final . For the Finns this was the first world championship medal. Both the new Russian team and Canada experienced a disappointment, both of which failed in the quarter-finals and achieved their worst World Cup placements with 5th and 8th place respectively. The Switzerland reached 4th place the best ranking since 1953 .

Overview

competition	place	date	sub- contractor	viewers total	Games	O
A world championship	Prague , Bratislava	Apr 28, 1992 - May 10, 1992	12	249,748	39	6,404
B world championship	Klagenfurt , Villach	0Apr 2, 1992 - ?	8th		28
C1 world championship	Humberside	18 Mar 1992 - March 28 1992	6th		15th
C2 world championship	Johannesburg	21 Mar 1992 - March 28 1992	6th		15th

A world championship

in Prague and Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

Preliminary round

Group A

April 28, 1992	Prague	Sweden	-	Poland	7: 0 (1: 0, 3: 0, 3: 0)
April 28, 1992	Prague	Finland	-	Germany	6: 3 (0: 0, 2: 1, 4: 2)
April 28, 1992	Prague	United States	-	Italy	1: 0 (1: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0)
April 29, 1992	Prague	Finland	-	Poland	11: 2 (4: 0, 2: 1, 5: 1)
April 29, 1992	Prague	United States	-	Germany	3: 5 (2: 1, 0: 3, 1: 1)
April 29, 1992	Prague	Sweden	-	Italy	0: 0 (0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0)
May 1, 1992	Prague	Italy	-	Poland	7: 5 (1: 2, 3: 2, 3: 1)
May 1, 1992	Prague	Sweden	-	Germany	2: 5 (0: 1, 1: 1, 1: 3)
May 1, 1992	Prague	Finland	-	United States	6: 1 (3: 0, 2: 1, 1: 0)
May 3, 1992	Bratislava	United States	-	Poland	5: 0 (2: 0, 0: 0, 3: 0)
May 3, 1992	Bratislava	Germany	-	Italy	6: 2 (0: 0, 1: 1, 5: 1)
May 3, 1992	Bratislava	Sweden	-	Finland	1: 3 (0: 1, 1: 0, 0: 2)
May 4th 1992	Bratislava	Germany	-	Poland	11: 1 (4: 0, 4: 0, 3: 1)
May 4th 1992	Bratislava	Finland	-	Italy	6: 1 (1: 0, 4: 0, 1: 1)
May 4th 1992	Bratislava	Sweden	-	United States	4: 4 (1: 1, 3: 1, 0: 2)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Finland	5	5	0	0	32: 8	+24	10: 00
2	Germany	5	4th	0	1	30:14	+16	08: 02
3	United States	5	2	1	2	14:15	- 01	05: 05
4th	Sweden	5	1	2	2	14:12	+ 02	04: 06
5	Italy	5	1	1	3	10:18	- 08	03: 07
6th	Poland	5	0	0	5	8:41	−33	00:10

Group B

April 28, 1992	Bratislava	Canada	-	France	4: 3 (2: 0, 1: 1, 1: 2)
April 28, 1992	Bratislava	Russia	-	Switzerland	2: 2 (0: 2, 0: 0, 2: 0)
April 28, 1992	Bratislava	Czechoslovakia	-	Norway	6: 1 (2: 0, 3: 1, 1: 0)
April 30, 1992	Bratislava	Canada	-	Switzerland	1: 1 (0: 0, 1: 0, 0: 1)
April 30, 1992	Bratislava	Czechoslovakia	-	France	3: 0 (0: 0, 1: 0, 2: 0)
April 30, 1992	Bratislava	Russia	-	Norway	3: 2 (1: 1, 0: 1, 2: 0)
May 1, 1992	Bratislava	Switzerland	-	France	6: 5 (2: 1, 1: 2, 3: 2)
May 1, 1992	Bratislava	Canada	-	Norway	4: 3 (3: 1, 1: 1, 0: 1)
May 1, 1992	Bratislava	Czechoslovakia	-	Russia	2: 4 (0: 2, 2: 1, 0: 1)
May 3, 1992	Prague	Russia	-	France	8: 0 (2: 0, 2: 0, 4: 0)
May 3, 1992	Prague	Switzerland	-	Norway	3: 1 (1: 0, 1: 1, 1: 0)
May 3, 1992	Prague	Czechoslovakia	-	Canada	5: 2 (2: 1, 1: 1, 2: 0)
May 4th 1992	Prague	France	-	Norway	0: 1 (0: 0, 0: 1, 0: 0)
May 4th 1992	Prague	Russia	-	Canada	6: 4 (2: 0, 3: 0, 1: 4)
May 4th 1992	Prague	Czechoslovakia	-	Switzerland	2: 0 (0: 0, 1: 0, 1: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Russia	5	4th	1	0	23:10	+13	9: 01
2	Czechoslovakia	5	4th	0	1	18: 07	+11	8: 02
3	Switzerland	5	2	2	1	12:11	+ 01	6: 04
4th	Canada	5	2	1	2	15:18	- 03	5: 05
5	Norway	5	1	0	4th	08:16	- 08	2: 08
6th	France	5	0	0	5	08:22	−14	0:10

Play down against relegation

May 6, 1992

Prague

France

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Poland

3: 1 (1: 1, 1: 0, 1: 0)

Play-offs

Quarter finals
May 6, 1992	Prague	Finland	-	Canada	4: 3 (2: 1, 1: 0, 1: 2)
May 6, 1992	Prague	Russia	-	Sweden	0: 2 (0: 1, 0: 1, 0: 0)
May 7, 1992	Prague	Germany	-	Switzerland	1: 3 (0: 1, 1: 0, 0: 2)
May 7, 1992	Prague	Czechoslovakia	-	United States	8: 1 (4: 0, 2: 1, 2: 0)
Semifinals
May 9, 1992	Prague	Czechoslovakia	-	Finland	2: 3 n.P. (0: 0, 2: 1, 0: 1, 0: 0, 0: 1)
May 9, 1992	Prague	Sweden	-	Switzerland	4: 1 (3: 0, 0: 1, 1: 0)
3rd place match
May 10, 1992	Prague	Czechoslovakia	-	Switzerland	5: 2 (2: 0, 0: 2, 3: 0)
final
May 10, 1992	Prague	Sweden	-	Finland	5: 2 (1: 0, 3: 0, 1: 2)

Final placement of the World Cup

Pl	team
1	Sweden
2	Finland
3	Czechoslovakia
4th	Switzerland
5	Russia
6th	Germany
7th	United States
8th	Canada
9	Italy
10	Norway
11	France
12	Poland

Relegated to group B:	Poland
Promoted to the A group:	Austria

World champion Sweden	Mikael Andersson , Peter Åslin , Arto Blomsten , Patrik Carnbäck , Joacim Esbjörs , Peter Forsberg , Johan Garpenlöv , Roger Hansson , Anders Huss , Calle Johansson , Lars Karlsson , Kenneth Kennholt , Patric Kjellberg , Jan Larsson , Petri Liimatainen , Michael Nylander , Peter Ottosson , Daniel Rydmark , Tommy Sjödin , Tommy Söderström , Fredrik Stillman , Mats Sundin Coaching staff: Conny Evensson , Curt Lundmark
Silver Finland	Ari-Pekka Siekkinen , Markus Ketterer , Sakari Lindfors - Erik Hämäläinen , Timo Jutila , Arto Ruotanen , Waltteri Immonen , Kai Rautio , Janne Laukkanen , Harri Laurila - Vesa Viitakoski , Jere Lehtinen , Hannu Järvenpää , Keijo Säilynoja , Pekka Tuomisto , Christian Ruuttu , Timo Saarikoski , Juha Riihijärvi , Rauli Raitanen , Timo Peltomaa , Jarkko Varvio , Mika Nieminen , Mikko Mäkelä Coaching staff: Pentti Matikainen
Bronze Czechoslovakia	Petr Briza , Oldřich Svoboda , Milan Hnilička - Drahomír Kadlec , Leo Gudas , Róbert Švehla , Bedřich Ščerban , Richard Šmehlík , Frantisek Musil , Jiří Jonák - Otakar Janecký , Tomas Jelinek , Ladislav Lubina , Petr Rosol , Robert Lang , Kamil Kašťák , Petr Hrbek , Richard Žemlička , Peter Veselovský , Igor Liba , Robert Reichel , Patrik Augusta Coaching staff: Ivan Hlinka , Jaroslav Walter

B world championship

in Klagenfurt and Villach, Austria

Games

April 2, 1992	Klagenfurt	Netherlands	-	China	12: 2 (4: 1, 5: 1, 3: 0)
April 2, 1992	Villach	Yugoslavia	-	Romania	3: 3 (1: 1, 0: 2, 2: 0)
April 2, 1992	Klagenfurt	Austria	-	Bulgaria	18: 0 (5: 0, 7: 0, 6: 0)
April 2, 1992	Villach	Japan	-	Denmark	4: 2 (1: 0, 0: 1, 3: 1)
April 3, 1992	Klagenfurt	Yugoslavia	-	China	1: 4 (1: 1, 0: 3, 0: 0)
April 3, 1992	Villach	Austria	-	Romania	9: 0 (2: 0, 4: 0, 3: 0)
April 4, 1992	Klagenfurt	Netherlands	-	Denmark	8: 0 (1: 0, 6: 0, 1: 0)
April 4, 1992	Villach	Japan	-	Bulgaria	2: 5 (1: 0, 0: 1, 1: 4)
April 5, 1992	Klagenfurt	Austria	-	China	16: 0 (4: 0, 7: 0, 5: 0)
April 5, 1992	Klagenfurt	Japan	-	Romania	5: 1 (0: 1, 3: 0, 2: 0)
April 5, 1992	Villach	Yugoslavia	-	Denmark	2: 4 (0: 0, 2: 2, 0: 2)
April 6, 1992	Klagenfurt	Netherlands	-	Bulgaria	7: 1 (0: 0, 3: 1, 4: 0)
April 6, 1992	Klagenfurt	China	-	Romania	3: 3 (0: 0, 1: 3, 2: 0)
April 7, 1992	Klagenfurt	Yugoslavia	-	Bulgaria	1: 4 (0: 3, 1: 0, 0: 1)
April 7, 1992	Villach	Austria	-	Denmark	5: 1 (1: 1, 3: 0, 1: 0)
April 8, 1992	Klagenfurt	Netherlands	-	Romania	2: 2 (0: 0, 1: 0, 1: 2)
April 8, 1992	Klagenfurt	Japan	-	China	10: 3 (3: 0, 4: 2, 3: 1)
April 9, 1992	Klagenfurt	Denmark	-	Bulgaria	7: 1 (1: 1, 2: 0, 4: 0)
April 9, 1992	Klagenfurt	Austria	-	Japan	3: 0 (0: 0, 3: 0, 0: 0)
April 9, 1992	Villach	Netherlands	-	Yugoslavia	11: 0 (3: 0, 3: 0, 5: 0)
April 10, 1992	Klagenfurt	China	-	Bulgaria	1: 3 (0: 0, 1: 2, 0: 1)
April 10, 1992	Villach	Denmark	-	Romania	4: 2 (0: 2, 1: 0, 3: 0)
April 11, 1992	Klagenfurt	Japan	-	Yugoslavia	6: 0 (2: 0, 2: 0, 2: 0)
April 11, 1992	Klagenfurt	Austria	-	Netherlands	8: 3 (5: 1, 0: 0, 3: 2)
April 12, 1992	Villach	Denmark	-	China	5: 2 (1: 1, 2: 1, 2: 0)
April 12, 1992	Klagenfurt	Japan	-	Netherlands	3:10 (1: 5, 1: 3, 1: 2)
April 12, 1992	Villach	Romania	-	Bulgaria	2: 0 (0: 0, 0: 0, 2: 0)
April 12, 1992	Klagenfurt	Austria	-	Yugoslavia	14: 0 (3: 0, 3: 0, 8: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Austria	7th	7th	0	0	73: 04	+69	14: 00
2	Netherlands	7th	5	1	1	53:16	+37	11: 03
3	Japan	7th	4th	0	3	30:24	+ 06	08: 06
4th	Denmark	7th	4th	0	3	23:24	- 01	08: 06
5	Bulgaria	7th	3	0	4th	14:38	−24	06: 08
6th	Romania	7th	1	3	3	13:26	−13	05: 09
7th	People's Republic of China	7th	1	1	5	15:50	−35	03:11
8th	Yugoslavia	7th	0	1	6th	07:46	−39	01:13

Promoted to the A group:	Austria
Relegated from the A group:	Poland
Relegated to the C group:	Yugoslavia
Newcomers from the C group:	Great Britain

A-group promotion team

Promoted to the A group Austria

Claus Dalpiaz , Brian Stankiewicz , Michael Suttnig - James Burton , Konrad Dorn , Herbert Hohenberger , Engelbert Linder , Giuseppe Mion , Michael Shea , Erich Solderer , Martin Ulrich - Christian Dolinar , Friedrich Ganster , Wayne Groulx , Werner Kerth , Martin Lindner , Manfred Mühr , Rick Nasheim , Christian Perthaler , Gerhard Puschnik , Andreas Pušnik , Ken Strong , Peter Znenahlik Head trainer: Ken Tyler

C1 world championship

in Humberside, UK

Games

March 18, 1992	Humberside	North Korea	-	Belgium	4: 5 (0: 3, 2: 1, 2: 1)
March 18, 1992	Humberside	Hungary	-	South Korea	10: 6 (4: 2, 4: 2, 2: 2)
March 18, 1992	Humberside	Great Britain	-	Australia	10: 2 (3: 0, 5: 2, 2: 0)
March 19, 1992	Humberside	Hungary	-	Belgium	3: 1 (2: 0, 0: 0, 1: 1)
March 19, 1992	Humberside	North Korea	-	Australia	8: 3 (4: 2, 2: 1, 2: 0)
March 19, 1992	Humberside	Great Britain	-	South Korea	15: 0 (5: 0, 4: 0, 6: 0)
March 21, 1992	Humberside	South Korea	-	Australia	5: 5 (2: 2, 1: 1, 2: 2)
March 21, 1992	Humberside	North Korea	-	Hungary	4: 1 (1: 0, 1: 0, 2: 1)
March 21, 1992	Humberside	Great Britain	-	Belgium	7: 3 (3: 1, 2: 1, 2: 1)
March 22, 1992	Humberside	Hungary	-	Australia	1: 8 (0: 4, 0: 2, 1: 2)
March 22, 1992	Humberside	Belgium	-	South Korea	6: 4 (3: 2, 1: 1, 2: 1)
March 22, 1992	Humberside	Great Britain	-	North Korea	16: 2 (4: 0, 8: 1, 4: 1)
March 24, 1992	Humberside	North Korea	-	South Korea	7: 3 (3: 2, 1: 0, 3: 1)
March 24, 1992	Humberside	Australia	-	Belgium	6: 2 (2: 1, 2: 0, 2: 1)
March 24, 1992	Humberside	Great Britain	-	Hungary	14: 3 (3: 0, 6: 0, 5: 3)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Great Britain	5	5	0	0	62:10	+52	10: 00
2	North Korea	5	3	0	2	25:28	- 03	06: 04
3	Australia	5	2	1	2	24:26	- 02nd	05: 05
4th	Hungary	5	2	0	3	18:33	−15	04: 06
5	Belgium	5	2	0	3	17:24	- 07th	04: 06
6th	South Korea	5	0	1	4th	18:43	−25	01: 09

Moving up to the B group:	Great Britain
Relegated from group B:	Yugoslavia

C2 world championship

in Johannesburg, South Africa

Games

March 21, 1992	Johannesburg	South Africa	-	Luxembourg	23: 0 (6: 0, 10: 0, 7: 0)
March 21, 1992	Johannesburg	Greece	-	Turkey	15: 3 (7: 0, 3: 2, 5: 1)
March 22, 1992	Johannesburg	Spain	-	Israel	23: 4 (8: 1, 9: 0, 6: 3)
March 22, 1992	Johannesburg	South Africa	-	Turkey	18: 1 (5: 0, 7: 0, 6: 1)
March 23, 1992	Johannesburg	Greece	-	Luxembourg	9: 5 (3: 3, 4: 2, 2: 0)
March 24, 1992	Johannesburg	Israel	-	Turkey	8: 2 (1: 1, 2: 0, 5: 1)
March 24, 1992	Johannesburg	Spain	-	Greece	10: 1 (3: 0, 1: 0, 6: 1)
March 25, 1992	Johannesburg	South Africa	-	Israel	5: 1 (4: 0, 0: 0, 1: 1)
March 25, 1992	Johannesburg	Spain	-	Luxembourg	31: 0 (8: 0, 11: 0, 12: 0)
March 26, 1992	Johannesburg	Luxembourg	-	Turkey	10: 5 (2: 3, 5: 0, 3: 2)
March 26, 1992	Johannesburg	South Africa	-	Greece	9: 4 (3: 1, 3: 2, 3: 1)
March 27, 1992	Johannesburg	Greece	-	Israel	7: 4 (0: 2, 4: 0, 3: 2)
March 27, 1992	Johannesburg	Spain	-	Turkey	38: 0 (13: 0, 14: 0, 11: 0)
March 28, 1992	Johannesburg	South Africa	-	Spain	0:12 (0: 3, 0: 5, 0: 4)
March 28, 1992	Johannesburg	Israel	-	Luxembourg	5: 5 (2: 2, 1: 1, 2: 2)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Spain	5	5	0	0	114: 5	+109	10-0
2	South Africa	5	4th	0	1	55:18	+ 37	8: 2
3	Greece	5	3	0	2	36:31	+ 5	6: 4
4th	Israel	5	1	1	3	22:42	- 20	3: 7
5	Luxembourg	5	1	1	3	20:73	- 53	3: 7
6th	Turkey	5	0	0	5	11:89	- 78	0:10

The C1 and C2 groups were merged in 1993.

See also

• Women's Ice Hockey World Championship 1992
• Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1992
• European U18 ice hockey championship 1992