Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1983

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	Winner: Soviet Union

The juniors' ice hockey world championship in 1983 was the seventh edition of the world championship in the under-20 age group (U20) by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF. The Soviet Union team became junior world champions for the fifth time .

The A-World Championship took place from December 26, 1982 to January 4, 1983 in Leningrad , Soviet Union . The B World Championship was held from March 14th to 20th, 1983 in Anglet , France . For the first time a C-group was played, it was played from March 3rd to 9th 1983 in Bucharest , Romania . A total of 20 teams took part in the tournaments.

World Championship

The world championship took place in the Soviet city ​​of Leningrad . U20 world champion became the host team of the USSR . The team from Norway was relegated and replaced by promoted Switzerland .

mode

Players under 20 years of age (U-20) were allowed. Eight teams took part, each of which competed once against each group opponent in a common group. World champion became the group winner. The last was relegated to the B World Championship.

Games and final table

Pl.										Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	USSR		4: 3	7: 3	5: 1	5: 3	7: 2	12: 0	10: 1	7th	7th	0	0	50:13	14: 0
2.	Czechoslovakia	3: 4		7: 7	4: 2	6: 4	5: 3	9-0	9: 2	7th	5	1	1	43:22	11: 3
3.	Canada	3: 7	7: 7		2: 5	4: 2	6: 3	4-0	13: 0	7th	4th	1	2	39:24	09: 5
4th	Sweden	1: 5	2: 4	5: 2		4: 1	4: 6	4: 2	15: 3	7th	4th	0	3	35:23	08: 6
5.	United States	3: 5	4: 6	2: 4	1: 4		4: 2	6: 5	8: 3	7th	3	0	4th	28:29	06: 8
6th	Finland	2: 7	3: 5	3: 6	6: 4	2: 4		9: 1	10: 2	7th	3	0	4th	25:29	06: 8
7th	BR Germany	0:12	0: 9	0: 4	2: 4	5: 6	1: 9		4: 2	7th	1	0	6th	12:46	02:12
8th.	Norway	1:10	2: 9	0:13	3:15	3: 8	2:10	2: 4		7th	0	0	7th	13:69	00:14

Best scorer

Abbreviations: Sp = games, T = goals, V = assists , pts = points, SM = penalty minutes; Fat: tournament best

player	team	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
Vladimír Růžička	Czechoslovakia	7th	12	8th	20th	6th
German Wolgin	USSR	7th	11	3	14th	10
Tomas Sandström	Sweden	7th	9	3	12	12
Oleg Starkov	USSR	7th	6th	6th	12	2
Dave Andreychuk	Canada	7th	6th	5	11	14th
Sergei Charin	USSR	7th	8th	2	10	2
Jali Wahlsten	Finland	7th	7th	3	10	0
Mario Lemieux	Canada	7th	5	5	10	12
Leonid Truchno	USSR	7th	4th	6th	10	13
Petr Klíma	Czechoslovakia	7th	4th	4th	8th	6th

Title, promotion and relegation

World Champion USSR	Sergei Ageikin , Ilya Bjakin , Igor Boldin , Svyatoslav Chalisow , Sergei Charin , Sergei Goloschumow , Sergei Gorbunov , Andrei Karpin , Andrei Martemjanow , Andrei Matyzin , Sergei Nemchinov , Arkadi Obukhov , Sergei Pryakhin , Yevgeny Schtepa , Valeri Shyriaiev , Oleg Starkov , Vladimir Tjurikow , Leonid Truchno , Alexander Tschornych , German Wolgin Coaching staff: Anatoli Kostryukov , Igor Tusik
Silver Czechoslovakia	Miroslav Bláha , Roman Božek , Milan Černý , Libor Dolana , Václav Fürbacher , Dominik Hasek , Ernest Hornák , Miloš Hrubeš , Jiří Jiroutek , Jiri Jonak , Vladimír Kames , Petr Klima , Ludvik Kopecký , Lumír Kotala , Jaromír Látal , Frantisek Musil , Kamil Prachař , Petr Rosol , Vladimír Růžička , Antonín Stavjaňa Coaching staff: František Pospíšil , Václav Červený
Bronze Canada	Dave Andreychuk , Paul Boutilier , Joe Cirella , Paul Cyr , Dale Derkatch , Mike Eagles , Pat Flatley , Gary Leeman , Mario Lemieux , Mark Morrison , James Patrick , Mike Sands , Brad Shaw , Gordon Sherven , Tony Tanti , Larry Trader , Sylvain Turgeon , Pat Verbeek , Mike Vernon , Steve Yzerman Trainers: Dave King

Relegated:	Norway
Newcomers:	Switzerland

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Dominik Hašek	Czechoslovakia
Best defender	Ilya Bjakin	USSR
Best striker	Tomas Sandström	Sweden

All-Star Team

Attack:	German Wolgin - Vladimír Růžička - Tomas Sandström
Defense:	Simo Saarinen - Ilja Bjakin
Goal:	Matti Rautianen

B world championship

in Anglet, France

Preliminary round

Group A team AUT JPN NED ITA Gates Pt. 1. Japan  6: 3 4: 5 12: 2 22:10 4: 2 2. Austria  3: 6 8: 4 7: 3 18:13 4: 2 3. Netherlands  5: 4 4: 8 11: 6 20:18 4: 2 4. Italy  2:12 3: 7 6:11 11:30 0: 6

Group B team SUI POLE FRA DAN Gates Pt. 1. Switzerland  6: 2 6: 5 10: 1 22: 8 6-0 2. Poland  2: 6 6: 3 10: 2 18:11 4: 2 3. France  5: 6 3: 6 11: 3 19:15 2: 4 4. Denmark  1:10 2:10 3:11 6:31 0: 6

Championship and relegation round

Championship round for places 1–4 team SUI JPN POLE AUT Gates Pt. 1. Switzerland 1: 4 (6: 2) 6: 2 13: 8 4: 2 2. Japan 4: 1 3: 5 (6: 3) 13: 9 4: 2 3. Poland (2: 6) 5: 3 6: 3 13:11 4: 2 4. Austria 2: 6 (3: 6) 3: 6 8:18 0: 6

Relegation round to place 5-8 team FRA NED DAN ITA Gates Pt. 1. France 10: 3 (11: 3) 3: 3 24: 9 5: 1 2. Netherlands 3:10 6: 6 (11: 6) 20:22 3: 3 3. Denmark (3:11) 6: 6 5: 4 14:21 3: 3 4. Italy 3: 3 (6:11) 4: 5 13:19 1: 5

Final placements

Pl.	team
1	Switzerland
2	Japan
3	Poland
4th	Austria
5	France
6th	Netherlands
7th	Denmark
8th	Italy

Moved up and down

Promoted to the A group:	Switzerland
Relegated from the A group:	Norway
Relegated to the C group:	Italy
Moving up to the B group:	Romania

Top scorer

player	country	Gates	Assists	Points
Christophe Ville	France	7th	4th	11
Franck Ganis	France	5	5	10
Marian Guzy	Poland	8th	1	9

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Witold Zameta	Poland
Best defender	Christian Heinrich	Austria
Best striker	Christophe Ville	France

C world championship

in Bucharest, Romania

Games and final table

team	ROME	BUL	HUN	OUT	Gates	Pt.
1. Romania		4: 1	9: 3	10: 2	49: 9	12: 0
2. Bulgaria	2: 8		1: 3	4: 1	16:18	06: 6
3. Hungary	0: 8	2: 4		7: 5	21:30	06: 6
4. Australia	1:10	0: 4	3: 6		12:41	00:12

Normal font 1st round, italics 2nd round

Moved up and down

Moving up to the B group:	Romania
Relegated from group B:	Italy

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Konstantin Mikhailov	Bulgaria
Best defender	Dumitru Dima	Romania
Best striker	Cristian Udrea	Romania

Web links

• The Junior World Championship at hockeyarchives.info (French)