Junior Ice Hockey World Championship
The Hockey - World Championships of the juniors are since 1977 by the International Ice Hockey Federation held annually (IIHF). Since 1999, in addition to the World Championship for U20-junior is also a world championship in the age group instead U18.
The U20 World Cup is held at the turn of the year, so the world championship title is awarded in the first days of the new year. The tournament is particularly popular in Canada. Every second to third tournament is now played in Canada, where an average of over 10,000 spectators attend the games and the finals take place in sold-out NHL stadiums. Canada is the record world champion with 18 titles, ahead of the Soviet Union and Russia with a total of 13 titles (as of 2020).
Unofficial U20 world championships were held from 1974 to 1976 (from 1970 to 1976 Canada did not take part in IIHF competitions because of a dispute with the IIHF over the admission of professional players to the men's world championship ). The first official U20 World Cup in 1977 replaced the U19 European Championship , which was continued as the U18 competition from that point on.
In 1999 the U18 European Championship became the U18 World Championship through the admission of the USA and the integration of the U18 Asia-Oceania Championship. Canada did not participate in the competition until 2002. The tournament takes place regularly in April. The record world champion is the USA with ten titles (as of 2019).
In addition to the tournaments in the top division (formerly A group), in which the world championship titles are awarded, the weaker nations play in divisions I to III (formerly B, C and D world championships) with promotion and relegation. A total of 42 (U20) and 46 (U18) national teams will take part in the World Cup tournaments in 2020.
Medal table
after 44 tournaments, the unofficial tournaments 1974 to 1976 are not included |
after 21 tournaments |
U20 world championships
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Unofficial U20 World Championships
| year | host | Final stands | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Champion | 2nd place | 3rd place | |||
| 1974 | Leningrad ( Soviet Union ) |
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|
 Finland
|
 Canada
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| 1975 | Winnipeg , Brandon ( Canada ) , Minneapolis, etc. a. ( USA ) |
Soviet Union
|
Canada
|
 Sweden
|
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| 1976 | Tampere , Turku , Pori , Rauma ( Finland ) |
Soviet Union
|
Canada
|
 Czechoslovakia
|
|
U18 world championships
| year | host | Final stands | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Champion | 2nd place | 3rd place | |||
| 1999 | Füssen , Kaufbeuren ( Germany ) |
Finland
|
Sweden
|
 Slovakia
|
|
| 2000 | Kloten , Weinfelden ( Switzerland ) |
Finland
|
 Russia
|
Sweden
|
|
| 2001 | Helsinki , Lahti , Heinola ( Finland ) |
Russia
|
 Switzerland
|
Finland
|
|
| 2002 | Trnava , Piešťany ( Slovakia ) |
 United States
|
Russia
|
 Czech Republic
|
|
| 2003 | Yaroslavl ( Russia ) |
Canada
|
Slovakia
|
Russia
|
|
| 2004 | Minsk ( Belarus ) |
Russia
|
United States
|
Czech Republic
|
|
| 2005 | Pilsen , Budweis ( Czech Republic ) |
United States
|
Canada
|
Sweden
|
|
| 2006 | Ängelholm , Halmstad ( Sweden ) |
United States
|
Finland
|
Czech Republic
|
|
| 2007 | Tampere , Rauma ( Finland ) |
Russia
|
United States
|
Sweden
|
|
| 2008 | Kazan ( Russia ) |
Canada
|
Russia
|
United States
|
|
| 2009 | Fargo , Moorhead ( USA ) |
United States
|
Russia
|
Finland
|
|
| 2010 | Minsk , Babrujsk ( Belarus ) |
United States
|
Sweden
|
Finland
|
|
| 2011 | Crimmitschau , Dresden ( Germany ) |
United States
|
Sweden
|
Russia
|
|
| 2012 | Brno , Znojmo , Břeclav ( Czech Republic ) |
United States
|
Sweden
|
Canada
|
|
| 2013 | Sochi ( Russia ) |
Canada
|
United States
|
Finland
|
|
| 2014 | Lappeenranta , Imatra ( Finland ) |
United States
|
Czech Republic
|
Canada
|
|
| 2015 | Zug , Lucerne ( Switzerland ) |
United States
|
Finland
|
Canada
|
|
| 2016 | Grand Forks ( USA ) |
Finland
|
Sweden
|
United States
|
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| 2017 | Poprad , Spišská Nová Ves ( Slovakia ) |
United States
|
Finland
|
Russia
|
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| 2018 | Chelyabinsk , Magnitogorsk ( Russia ) |
Finland
|
United States
|
Sweden
|
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| 2019 | Örnsköldsvik , Umeå ( Sweden ) |
Sweden
|
Russia
|
United States
|
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| 2021 | Plymouth , Ann Arbor ( USA ) | ||||
See also
literature
- Kevin Gibson: The Official Book of Team Canada from Eh to Zed: The World Junior Championships . Trafford, 2003, ISBN 1-4120-0162-5 , pp. 420 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ TSN turned World Junior molehill into mountain . ( theglobeandmail.com [accessed November 27, 2019]).
- ↑ Credit TSN for elevating world juniors to must-see TV . ( theglobeandmail.com [accessed November 27, 2019]).
| Unofficial World Championships for U20 Juniors | ||
| World Championships for U20 Juniors |
1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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| World Championships of the U18 Juniors |
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
