IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship 2007

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	Winner: Sweden

The 11th IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship took place from May 26th to June 2nd, 2007 in Germany . The venues were Landshut and Passau .

The Swedish team emerged as the winner of this tournament (Top Division). The Finns came second, Germany took third place. The Austrian team reached 4th place and created the tournament surprise par excellence.

Attendees

9 from Europe	Germany	Finland	Austria	Sweden	Slovakia
	Slovenia	Czech Republic	Hungary	United Kingdom
2 from Africa	Namibia	South Africa
2 from Oceania	Australia	New Zealand
1 from Asia	Japan
1 from North America	United States
1 from South America	Brazil

Preliminary round top division

Group A

May 26, 2007	Landshut 8:00 p.m.	Germany	-	Czech Republic	10-0	(2: 0.3: 0.1: 0.4: 0)
May 27, 2007	Passau 6:00 p.m.	United States	-	Czech Republic	3: 4	(2: 1.1: 0.0: 2.0: 1)
May 27, 2007	Passau 8:00 p.m.	Germany	-	Austria	8: 1	(0: 0.2: 0.1: 0.5: 1)
May 28, 2007	Passau 8:00 p.m.	Austria	-	United States	1:10	(1: 1.0: 3.0: 6.0: 0)
May 29, 2007	Passau 6:00 p.m.	Czech Republic	-	Austria	6: 4	(2: 0.3: 0.0: 2.1: 2)
May 29, 2007	Passau 8:00 p.m.	United States	-	Germany	7: 4	(3: 2.2: 0.1: 2.1: 0)

table

RF	team	Sp	S.	S2	N1	N	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Germany	3	2	0	0	1	22: 8	+14	6th
2	United States	3	2	0	0	1	20: 9	+11	6th
3	Czech Republic	3	1	0	0	1	10:17	−7	6th
4th	Austria	3	0	0	0	3	8:24	−18	0

Group B

May 27, 2007	Landshut 6:00 p.m.	Slovenia	-	Sweden	4: 3 n.p.	(0: 1.1: 0.1: 1.1: 1.0: 0.1: 0)
May 27, 2007	Landshut 8:00 p.m.	Finland	-	Slovakia	8: 4	(2: 0.1: 3.1: 0.4: 1)
May 28, 2007	Landshut 6:00 p.m.	Sweden	-	Slovakia	13: 1	(4: 1.2: 0.6: 0.1: 0)
May 28, 2007	Landshut 8:00 p.m.	Finland	-	Slovenia	1: 2	(0: 1.0: 0.0: 0.1: 1)
May 30, 2007	Landshut 12:00 p.m.	Slovakia	-	Slovenia	2: 7	(0: 3.0: 1.2: 1.0: 2)
May 30, 2007	Landshut 6:00 p.m.	Sweden	-	Finland	3: 2	(1: 0.0: 0.2: 1.0: 1)

• All games of May 30, 2007 had originally been scheduled the day before, but could not be played because some parts of the roof were leaking due to rain.

table

RF	team	Sp	S.	S2	N1	N	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Slovenia	3	2	1	0	0	13: 6	+7	8th
2	Sweden	3	2	0	1	0	19: 7	+12	7th
3	Finland	3	1	0	0	2	11: 9	+2	3
4th	Slovakia	3	0	0	0	3	7:28	−21	0

Preliminary round division I.

Group C

May 27, 2007	Passau 2 p.m.	Japan	-	Namibia	6: 3	(1: 1.2: 0.2: 1.1: 1)
May 27, 2007	Passau 4 p.m.	South Africa	-	Great Britain	1: 7	(0: 3.0: 2.1: 1.0: 1)
May 28, 2007	Passau 4 p.m.	Japan	-	South Africa	5: 3	(2: 1.0: 1.2: 1.1: 0)
May 28, 2007	Passau 6:00 p.m.	Great Britain	-	Namibia	7: 2	(0: 0.5: 1.1: 1.1: 0)
May 29, 2007	Passau 2 p.m.	Namibia	-	South Africa	8: 3	(2: 1.4: 1.1: 0.1: 1)
May 29, 2007	Passau 4 p.m.	Great Britain	-	Japan	8: 4	(3: 2.3: 0.0: 1.2: 1)

table

RF	team	Sp	S.	S2	N1	N	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Great Britain	3	3	0	0	0	22: 7	+15	9
2	Japan	3	2	0	0	1	15:14	+1	6th
3	Namibia	3	1	0	0	2	13:16	−3	3
4th	South Africa	3	0	0	0	3	7:20	−13	0

Group D

May 27, 2007	Landshut 2 p.m.	Brazil	-	Australia	6: 5	(0: 2.3: 0.2: 1.1: 2)
May 27, 2007	Landshut 4:00 p.m.	New Zealand	-	Hungary	9: 8	(3: 3.3: 3.2: 2.1: 0)
May 28, 2007	Landshut 2 p.m.	Brazil	-	New Zealand	5: 3	(2: 1.1: 0.1: 0.1: 2)
May 28, 2007	Landshut 4:00 p.m.	Hungary	-	Australia	5: 8	(1: 1.1: 1.1: 4.2: 2)
May 30, 2007	Landshut 10:00 a.m.	Hungary	-	Brazil	2: 4	(2: 1.0: 1.0: 1.0: 1)
May 30, 2007	Landshut 4:00 p.m.	Australia	-	New Zealand	13: 2	(4: 1.3: 1.4: 0.2: 0)

• All games of May 30, 2007 had originally been scheduled the day before, but could not be played because some parts of the roof were leaking due to rain.

table

RF	team	Sp	S.	S2	N1	N	Gates	TD	Pts.
1	Brazil	3	3	0	0	0	15:10	+5	9
2	Australia	3	2	0	0	1	26:13	+13	6th
3	New Zealand	3	1	0	0	2	14:26	−12	3
4th	Hungary	3	0	0	0	3	15:21	−6	0

Qualifying games for 4th place in groups A and B.

Qualifying games for 4th place in groups A and B.
May 30, 2007	Landshut 8:00 p.m.	Slovakia	-	Brazil	7: 4	(2: 1.3: 0.0: 3.2: 0)
May 30, 2007	Passau 8:00 p.m.	Austria	-	Great Britain	6: 5 a.d.	(0: 1.1: 0.2: 1.2: 3.1: 0)

• Slovakia and Austria remain in the top division, Brazil and Great Britain in division I.

Play-Offs Top Division

Quarter finals
May 31, 2007	Landshut 2 p.m.	Sweden	-	Czech Republic	6: 2	(3: 1.1: 1.0: 0.2: 0)
May 31, 2007	Landshut 4:00 p.m.	United States	-	Finland	4: 7	(0: 2.3: 0.0: 1.1: 4)
May 31, 2007	Landshut 6:00 p.m.	Slovenia	-	Austria	1: 2 a.d.	(0: 0.0: 1.0: 0.1: 0.0: 1)
May 31, 2007	Landshut 8:00 p.m.	Germany	-	Slovakia	10: 2	(5: 0.0: 1.2: 1.3: 0)
Placement games
June 1, 2007	Landshut 2 p.m.	Czech Republic	-	United States	7: 8 a.d.	(2: 1.2: 1.1: 2.2: 3.0: 1)
June 1, 2007	Landshut 4:00 p.m.	Slovakia	-	Slovenia	0: 9	(0: 2.0: 1.0: 2.0: 4)
Semifinals
June 1, 2007	Landshut 6:00 p.m.	Austria	-	Finland	5: 6	(0: 1.3: 1.0: 2.2: 2)
June 1, 2007	Landshut 8:00 p.m.	Germany	-	Sweden	2: 5	(1: 2.1: 2.0: 0.0: 1)
3rd place match
June 2, 2007	Landshut 6:00 p.m.	Germany	-	Austria	6: 3	(2: 0.3: 0.1: 0.0: 3)
final
June 2, 2007	Landshut 8:00 p.m.	Finland	-	Sweden	3: 4 a.d.	(1: 1.1: 0.0: 1.1: 1.0: 1)

• Honors of the IIHF:
  • Best goalkeeper: Pontus Sjogren
  • Best defender: Aki Tuominen
  • Best striker: Michael Wolf
  • Most Valuable Player (MVP): Gasper Kroselj

Play-Offs Division I

Quarter finals
May 31, 2007	Passau 2 p.m.	Australia	-	Namibia	5: 3	(1: 2.2: 1.1: 0.1: 0)
May 31, 2007	Passau 4 p.m.	Japan	-	New Zealand	4: 5	(0: 1.0: 1.2: 1.2: 2)
May 31, 2007	Passau 6:00 p.m.	Great Britain	-	Hungary	3: 4	(1: 1.1: 0.0: 2.1: 1)
May 31, 2007	Passau 8:00 p.m.	Brazil	-	South Africa	9: 3	(2: 0.3: 1.2: 0.2: 2)
Placement games
June 1, 2007	Passau 2 p.m.	Japan	-	Namibia	7: 6	(4: 2.1: 1.2: 2.0: 1)
June 1, 2007	Passau 4 p.m.	Great Britain	-	South Africa	11: 2	(1: 0.4: 0.2: 0.4: 2)
Semifinals
June 1, 2007	Passau 6:00 p.m.	Australia	-	New Zealand	3: 7	(1: 1.0: 1.1: 1.1: 4)
June 1, 2007	Passau 8:00 p.m.	Brazil	-	Hungary	7: 2	(1: 0.3: 0.1: 0.2: 2)
3rd place match
June 2, 2007	Passau 4 p.m.	Australia	-	Hungary	5: 6	(2: 2.0: 0.1: 3.2: 1)
final
June 2, 2007	Passau 6:00 p.m.	New Zealand	-	Brazil	4: 5 a.d.	(1: 0.2: 1.1: 2.0: 1.0: 1)

Final placements

RF	team
1	Sweden
2	Finland
3	Germany
4th	Austria
5	Slovenia
6th	United States
7th	Czech Republic
8th	Slovakia
9	Brazil
10	New Zealand
11	Hungary
12	Australia
13	Great Britain
14th	Japan
15th	Namibia
16	South Africa

Web links

• Official website for the Inline Hockey World Championship 2007
• Website of Inline-Hockey Deutschland