Lithuanian U20 national ice hockey team
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| Association | Lietuvos ledo ritulio federacija |
| Trainer | Mindaugas Kieras |
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Casey Fratkin Bernd Haake |
| Most games | Paulius Tamkevicius (29) |
| Most of the points |
Tadas Kumeliauskas and Povilas Verenis (49 each) |
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First international match Ukraine 20: 0 Lithuania Minsk , Belarus ; November 10, 1992 |
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Biggest victory Lithuania 47: 1 Armenia Elektrėnai , Lithuania ; January 7, 2006 |
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Biggest defeat Ukraine 20-0 Lithuania Minsk , Belarus ; November 10, 1992 |
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| Participation | Since 1993 |
| best result | 6th place in Division I ( 2008 , 2011 ) |
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The Lithuanian U-20 ice hockey team represents the Hockey Association of Lithuania in Hockey in the U20 junior power level in international competitions. Her best placement was sixth at the Division I World Championships in 2008 and 2011 .
history
Already during the times of the Soviet Union there was a selection team from the Lithuanian republic that competed against teams from other republics, for example as part 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 for which players from today's Lithuania were eligible to play. 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 Lithuanian U20 national team was founded, which in 1993 took part in a world championship for the first time.
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 Lithuanian U20 national team has only represented the U20 junior level at world championships.
The Lithuanian junior team first had to take part in qualifying for the C World Championship as a new team. After the team played in the C2 and D groups from 1995 onwards, the 1998 home tournament in Kaunas and Elektrėnai made it to the C group for the first time and the team was transferred to Division II in 2001 when it switched to the current division system . In the third division, the Lithuanians remained - with the exception of the 2006 World Cup - until 2007, when they were promoted to Division I for the first time. But neither at the 2008 World Cup nor at the other attempts in 2011 and 2018 , the team from the Baltic States was able to stay in Division I.
World Cup placements
- 1974–1991 - see Soviet Union
- 1992 - see CIS
- 1993 - C-WM-Quali; 4th Place
- 1994 - no participation
- 1995 - C2-WM; 4th Place
- 1996 - D-WM; 4th Place
- 1997 - D-WM; 2nd place
- 1998 - D-WM; 1st place
- 1999 - C-WM; 6th place
- 2000 - C-WM; 7th place
- 2001 - Division II; 3rd place
- 2002 - Division II; 8th place
- 2003 - Division II; 4th Place
- 2004 - Division II; 5th place
- 2005 - Division II; 6th place
- 2006 - Division III; 1st place
- 2007 - Division II; 1st place
- 2008 - Division I; 6th place
- 2009 - Division II, 2nd place
- 2010 - Division II, 1st place
- 2011 - Division I; 6th place
- 2012 - Division IIA, 2nd place
- 2013 - Division IIA, 5th place
- 2014 - Division IIA; 2nd place
- 2015 - Division IIA; 2nd place
- 2016 - Division IIA; 2nd place
- 2017 - Division IIB; 1st place
- 2018 - Division IB; 6th place
- 2019 - Division IIA; 2nd place
- 2020 - Division IIA; 3rd place
Web links
- Overview of international matches for the Lithuanian U20 national team (PDF file; 1.34 MB) on nationalteamsoficehockey.com