Ice Hockey World Championship 2014

The ice hockey world championships of 2014 are organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation in five different age and gender categories. A total of 27 tournaments are held in all divisions.

Tournament overview

Men's

Interior of the Minsk Arena

The 78th men's ice hockey world championship was held in 2014 in the Belarusian capital Minsk .

The application prevailed at the annual congress of the World Ice Hockey Federation IIHF on May 8, 2009 in Bern with 75 votes against those from Hungary (24 votes), Latvia (3) and Ukraine (3). Originally, five member countries applied to host the event.

Belarus had already applied to host the 2013 World Cup without success . The country hosted a world championship for the first time in 2014, the games took place in two arenas in the capital Minsk. The main venue was the Minsk Arena with 15,000 seats, which was opened in December 2009. The second arena was the Tschyschouka-Arena , construction of which began in June 2009 and offers space for 8,000 spectators.

The award of the World Cup to Belarus was at times controversial, especially after many Belarusian opposition members were arrested in December 2010. Among other things, several members of the European Parliament turned to the IIHF and asked the association to withdraw the award of the World Cup as long as there are political prisoners in Belarus. After the execution of two convicted of the terrorist attack on the Minsk metro in March 2012, the debate about a possible postponement of the World Cup flared up again. Several German politicians, including the chairwoman of the sports committee in the Bundestag, Dagmar Freitag , declared in April 2012 their support for the project to host the World Cup in another country. In contrast, the World Ice Hockey Federation IIHF said that the decision to hold the World Cup in Belarus would remain. Since there was no discussion and no vote at the IIHF association congress in Helsinki in May 2012, the World Cup took place in Belarus as planned.

Venues and dates

• Top division: May 9th to 25th, 2014 in Minsk , Belarus

• Division I.
  • Group A: April 20-26 , 2014 in Goyang , South Korea
  • Group B: April 20-26, 2014 in Vilnius , Lithuania

• Division II
  • Group A: April 9-15, 2014 in Belgrade , Serbia
  • Group B: April 5th to 11th, 2014 in Jaca , Spain

• Division III: April 6 to 12, 2014 in Kockelscheuer , Luxembourg

U20 juniors

The 37th U20 Junior Ice Hockey World Championship was held in 2013 and 2014 in the Swedish city ​​of Malmö .

Venues and dates

• Top division: December 26, 2013 to January 5, 2014 in Malmö , Sweden

• Division I.
  • Group A: December 15-21, 2013 in Sanok , Poland
  • Group B: December 9-15 , 2013 in Dumfries , Scotland

• Division II
  • Group A: December 15-21, 2013 in Miskolc , Hungary
  • Group B: January 11-17, 2014 in Jaca , Spain

• Division III: January 12-18 , 2014 in Izmir , Turkey

U18 juniors

The 16th U18 Junior Ice Hockey World Championship was held in 2014 in the Finnish cities of Lappeenranta and Imatra .

Venues and dates

• Top division: April 17-27 , 2014 in Lappeenranta and Imatra , Finland

• Division I.
  • Group A: April 13-19, 2014 in Nice , France
  • Group B: April 13-19, 2014 in Székesfehérvár , Hungary

• Division II
  • Group A: March 24-30, 2014 in Dumfries , Scotland
  • Group B: April 14-20, 2014 in Tallinn , Estonia

• Division III:
  • Group A: March 24-30, 2014 in Sofia , Bulgaria
  • Group B: February 13-15 , 2014 in İzmit , Turkey

Women

The 17th women's ice hockey world championship was only held in divisions IA to IIB and the qualification for the latter in 2014. However, it was the first time ever that World Championship games were held in the year of an Olympic ice hockey tournament.

The last placed of Hockey tournament of the Olympic Winter Games in Russian Sochi is following the world championships in the play-off against the winner of Division IA play the eighth participant of the top division the following year.

Venues and dates

• Division I.
  • Group A: April 6-12, 2014 in Přerov , Czech Republic
  • Group B: April 6-12, 2014 in Ventspils , Latvia

• Division II
  • Group A: April 6-12, 2014 in Asiago , Italy
  • Group B: March 24-30, 2014 in Reykjavík , Iceland

• Division IIB qualification: March 19-22, 2014 in Mexico City , Mexico

U18 juniors

The 7th Ice Hockey World Championship for U18 women was held in 2014 in the Hungarian capital Budapest .

Venues and dates

• Top Division: March 23-30, 2014 in Budapest , Hungary

• Division I: March 29 to April 4, 2014 in Füssen , Germany

• Division I qualification: March 18-23 , 2014 in Krynica-Zdrój , Poland

Web links

Commons : Ice Hockey World Championship 2014  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Five bids for 2014 Worlds. In: iihf.com. September 2, 2008, accessed July 5, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Belarus lands 2014 Worlds. In: iihf.com. Retrieved July 5, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Call for the suspension of the hosting rights for the Ice Hockey World Championship 2014 in Belarus. europarl.europa.eu, May 11, 2011, accessed on March 21, 2012 . 
4. Jump up ↑ Ice Hockey World Cup: Belarus as World Cup host to the test. sueddeutsche.de, March 19, 2012, archived from the original on March 22, 2012 ; Retrieved March 21, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Article at focus.de.Retrieved on April 25, 2012
6. ↑ Ice Hockey World Championship 2014 as planned in Belarus ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Handelsblatt, May 20, 2012