Junior Ice Hockey World Championship 1989

The games of the 13th Junior A World Championship in 1989 took place from December 26, 1988 to January 4, 1989 in Anchorage , United States . Group B was played in Canazei , Italy , and Group C in Chamonix , France .

A total of 21 teams took part. There were two more qualifying games in the run-up to the B-WM. In the case of the C-group winner from the previous year, Denmark, a player was subsequently convicted of doping. The Danes were then denied direct promotion and they had to play an additional qualification against the C-group runner-up Italy. The USSR became the new world champion for the eighth time.

World Championship

The world championship took place in Anchorage , Alaska , USA . Fire Lake acted as a sideline . The team of the USSR became the junior world champion . The team from the Federal Republic of Germany was relegated and replaced by promoted Poland .

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		3: 2	3: 5	7: 2	4: 2	9: 3	10-0	15: 0	7th	6th	0	1	51:14	12: 2
2.	Sweden	2: 3		5: 3	5: 4	3: 1	6: 2	11: 1	9-0	7th	6th	0	1	39:14	12: 2
3.	Czechoslovakia	5: 3	3: 5		2: 2	1: 5	7: 2	7: 1	11: 1	7th	4th	1	2	36:19	09: 5
4th	Canada	2: 7	4: 5	2: 2		5: 1	4: 3	7: 1	7: 4	7th	4th	1	2	31:23	09: 5
5.	United States	2: 4	1: 3	5: 1	1: 5		5: 5	12: 4	15: 3	7th	3	1	3	41:25	07: 7
6th	Finland	3: 9	2: 6	2: 7	3: 4	5: 5		9: 3	5: 3	7th	2	1	5	29:37	05: 9
5.	Norway	0:10	1: 9	1: 7	1: 7	4:12	3: 9		4: 2	7th	1	0	6th	14:56	02:12
8th.	BR Germany	0:15	0: 9	1:11	4: 7	3:15	3: 5	2: 4		7th	0	0	7th	13:66	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
Jeremy Roenick	United States	7th	8th	8th	16	0
Mike Modano	United States	7th	6th	9	15th	12
Pavel Bure	USSR	7th	8th	6th	14th	4th
Josef Beránek	Czechoslovakia	7th	4th	9	13	6th
Alexander Mogilny	USSR	7th	7th	5	12	4th
Sergei Fyodorov	USSR	7th	4th	8th	12	4th
Robert Cimetta	Canada	7th	7th	4th	11	4th
Petri Aaltonen	Finland	7th	6th	4th	10	4th
John LeClair	United States	7th	6th	4th	10	12
Andrij Sydorow	USSR	7th	5	5	10	8th
Teemu Selänne	Finland	7th	5	5	10	10

Title, promotion and relegation

World Champion USSR

Pavel Bure , Boris Bykovsky , Dmitri Khristich , Sergei Fedorov , Sergei Gomoljako , Viktor Gordijuk , Oleksandr Hodynjuk , Igor Ivanov , Alexei Ivashkin , Alyaksandr Judsin , Dmitri Yushkevich , Igor Malychin , Maxim Mikhailovsky , Alexander Mogilny , Roman Oksjuta , Stanislaw Panfilenkow , Sergei Sorokin , Sergei Subow , Andrij Sydorow , Uladsimir Zyplakou Coaching staff: Robert Cherenkov , Valentin Gurejew

Silver Sweden

Markus Åkerblom , Niklas Andersson , Jan Bergman , Stefan Claesson , Stefan Elvenes , Patrik Erickson , Niklas Eriksson , Peter Hammarström , Magnus Jansson , Pierre Johnsson , Jonas Karlsson , Patric Kjellberg , Petri Liimatainen , Torbjörn Lindberg , Stefan Örnskog , Ricard Persson , Ola Rosander , Daniel Rydmark , Tommy Söderström , Mathias Svedberg Trainer: Claes-Göran Wallin

Bronze Czechoslovakia

Martin Bakula , Josef Beránek , Vladimír Búřil , Zdeno Cíger , Jiří Cihlář , Radek Gardoň , Robert Holík , Petr Hrbek , Jaroslav Kameš , Roman Kontšek , Martin Maškarinec , Robert Reichel , Luboš Rob , Milan Tichý , Roman Turek , Ján Varholík , Roman Veberholík , Jiří Vykoukal , Pavol Zůbek , Peter Zůbek Trainers: Josef Vimmer , Stanislav Berger

Relegated:	BR Germany
Newcomers:	Poland

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Alexei Ivashkin	USSR
Best defender	Ricard Persson	Sweden
Best striker	Pavel Bure	USSR

All-Star Team

Attack:	Niklas Eriksson - Jeremy Roenick - Pawel Bure
Defense:	Milan Tichý - Ricard Persson
Goal:	Alexei Ivashkin

B world championship

Group B of the World Cup was held in Chamonix, France.

Qualification for the B World Championship

Before that, a qualifying tournament was played in Canazei, Italy.

December 18, 1988	Canazei	Italy	-	Denmark	3: 4 (1: 3.1: 1.1: 0)
December 20, 1988	Canazei	Italy	-	Denmark	1: 2 (1: 1.0: 1.0: 0)

qualified for the B-WM:	Denmark
qualified for the C-WM:	Italy

Games and final table

team	POLE	SUI	ROME	JPN	YUG	FRA	DAN	NED	Gates	Points
1. Poland		9: 1	13: 4	7: 2	6: 5	5: 3	4: 2	5: 3	49:20	14: 0
2. Switzerland	1: 9		2-0	9: 5	13: 1	3: 1	8: 1	9: 2	45:19	12: 2
3. Romania	4:13	0: 2		5: 1	2: 5	6: 3	9: 5	6: 2	32:31	8: 6
4. Japan	2: 7	5: 9	1: 5		8: 4	6: 2	5: 4	5: 3	32:34	8: 6
5. Yugoslavia	5: 6	1:13	5: 2	4: 8		6: 2	5: 4	5: 3	32:34	8: 6
6. France	3: 5	1: 3	3: 6	2: 6	3: 6		4: 4	7: 1	23:31	3:11
7. Denmark	2: 4	1: 8	5: 9	4: 5	3:11	4: 4		6: 1	25:42	3:11
8. Netherlands	3: 5	2: 9	2: 6	3: 5	5:10	1: 7	1: 6		17:48	0:14

Moved up and down

Promoted to the A group:	Poland
Relegated from the A group:	BR Germany
Relegated to the C group:	Netherlands
Newcomers from the C group:	Austria

Top scorer

player	country	Gates	Assists	Points
Zoran Kožić	Yugoslavia	11	7th	18th
Wojciech Tkacz	Poland	7th	8th	15th
Slawomir Wieloch	Poland	7th	7th	14th
Jacek Płachta	Poland	10	3	13
Krzysztof Niedziółka	Poland	10	3	13

All-Star Team

Attack:	Patrick Howald - Wojciech Tkacz - Jacek Płachta
Defense:	Sven Leuenberger - Andrej Brodnik
Goal:	Ionel Corciova

C world championship

The Group C tournament was held in Basingstoke, Great Britain.

Games and final table

team	AUT	ITA	PRK	GBR	BUL	Gates	Points
1. Austria		2: 2	7: 5	5: 2	7: 5	21:14	7: 1
2. Italy	2: 2		7: 4	6: 6	7: 2	22:14	6: 2
3. North Korea	5: 7	4: 7		5: 4	3: 2	17:20	4: 4
4. Great Britain	2: 5	6: 6	4: 5		3: 3	15:19	2: 6
5. Bulgaria	5: 7	2: 7	2: 3	3: 3		12:20	1: 7

Moved up and down

Moving up to the B group:	Austria
Relegated from group B:	Netherlands

Awards

Player trophies

Award	player	team
Best goalkeeper	Chong Song-Chol	North Korea
Best defender	Wolfgang Strauss	Austria
Best striker	Gerald Ressmann	Austria

Web links

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