Latvian U20 national ice hockey team
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| Association | Latvijas Hokeja Federācija |
| Trainer | Kārlis Zirnis |
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Edgars Lūsiņš Francis Anzalone |
| Most games | Aleksandrs Ņiživijs (24) |
| Most of the points | Aleksandrs Ņiživijs (47) |
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First international match Latvia 47: 1 Greece Riga , Latvia ; November 10, 1992 |
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Biggest win Latvia 47: 1 Greece Riga , Latvia ; November 10, 1992 |
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Biggest defeat Canada 16-0 Latvia Saskatoon , Canada ; December 26, 2009 |
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| World Championship | |
| Participation | Since 1993 |
| best result | 8th place ( 2009 ) |
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The Latvian U-20 ice hockey team represents the Hockey Association of Latvia in Hockey in the U20 junior power level in international competitions. Her best placement was an eighth place in the 2009 Top Division World Championship .
history
Already in the times of the Soviet Union there was a selection team from the Latvian republic that competed against teams from other republics, for example in the context of the Winter Parkiade. As an independent national team, it emerged from the U20 national ice hockey team of the Commonwealth of Independent States , which played its last games at the Junior World Cup in 1992 and consisted, among other things, of players from what is now Latvia. During the tournament, the Soviet Union was transferred to the Commonwealth of Independent States and the junior national team played the tournament as the CIS to the end. In the course of 1992 the Latvian U20 national team was founded, which took part in a world championship for the first time in 1993 .
Up to and including 1998, the U20 national team covered the entire junior area at the World Championships, while the U19 national team took part in the Junior European Championships. Since the introduction of the U18 World Championships in 1999 , the Latvian U20 national team has only represented the U20 junior level at world championships.
The Latvian junior team first had to take part in qualifying for the C World Championship as a new team. In 1994 they qualified for the C World Championship for the first time, in which the Balts immediately finished second. A year later, he was promoted to the B world championship as a C world champion. The Latvians remained in the second division - with the exception of the 2002 World Cup - until 2005, when they were promoted to the top division for the first time. After the renewed promotions in 2008 and 2011 at the World Championships in 2009 and 2012, although the league was in the top class, but in the long term, the team could not hold in the first class. It was not until 2016 that the team from the Baltic States managed to move up to the top division again, but again they could not hold their own.
World Cup placements
- 1993 - C-WM-Quali; 2nd place
- 1994 - C-WM; 2nd place
- 1995 - C-WM; 1st place
- 1996 - B-WM; 2nd place
- 1997 - B-WM; 2nd place
- 1998 - B-WM; 4th Place
- 1999 - B-WM; 5th place
- 2000 - B-WM; 7th place
- 2001 - Division I; 8th place
- 2002 - Division II; 3rd place
- 2003 - Division I; 4th Place
- 2004 - Division I; 4th Place
- 2005 - Division I; 1st place
- 2006 - 9th place
- 2007 - Division I; 2nd place
- 2008 - Division I; 1st place
- 2009 - 8th place
- 2010 - 9th place
- 2011 - Division I; 1st place
- 2012 - 9th place
- 2013 - 10th place
- 2014 - Division IA; 2nd place
- 2015 - Division IA; 3rd place
- 2016 - Division IA; 1st place
- 2017 - 10th place
- 2018 - Division IA; 2nd place
- 2019 - Division IA; 4th Place
- 2020 - Division IA; 2nd place
Web links
- Overview of international matches for the Latvian U20 national team (PDF file; 1.34 MB) at nationalteamsoficehockey.com