Belarusian U20 national ice hockey team
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| Association | Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation |
| Trainer | Aljaksandr Beliavsky |
| Assistant coach | Andrej Tabolin , Aljaksandr Uladykin |
| Most games | Andrei Kaszitsyn (28) |
| Most of the points | Kanstanzin Sacharau (23) |
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First international match Belarus 0: 4 Kazakhstan Minsk , Belarus ; November 10, 1992 |
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Biggest win Belarus 19: 0 Lithuania Minsk , Belarus ; November 13, 1992 |
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Biggest defeat Slovakia 11: 1 Belarus Sydney , Canada ; December 27, 2003 |
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| Participation | Since 1993 |
| best result | 9th place ( 2001 , 2002 ) |
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The Belarusian U20 ice hockey team represents the Ice Hockey Federation of Belarus in hockey in the U20 junior power level in international competitions. Her best results so far were two ninth places at the U20 World Championships in 2001 and 2002 . In 2016 the team played in the top division for the first time in nine years, but could not avoid relegation immediately.
history
Even before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there was a Belarusian national selection of juniors, which competed against teams from other Soviet republics as well as from abroad. This played their first game in 1978 in Minsk with an 11-1 win over Sweden . As an independent national team, the team emerged in 1992 from the U20 national ice hockey team of the Commonwealth of Independent States . She first took part in the world championship in 1993 and is thus also in the tradition of the Soviet junior selection . 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 U20 national team of Belarus has exclusively represented the U20 junior level at world championships.
The Belarusian U20 team plays predominantly in the second highest level of performance at world championships (since 2001: Division I, previously B-world championship). In 1995 , the team took part in the C1 World Cup for the first time after failing twice in the qualification. Two years later, he was promoted to the B group of the Junior World Championships, which was followed by the next promotion to the A group in 1998 . The Belarusians were unable to hold their own there and were immediately relegated with five defeats from six games - only against Kazakhstan in the preliminary round a 2-2 draw. The immediate resurgence was followed by relegation twice, before relegation had to be accepted again in 2003 . In 2005 and 2007 the Belarusian team took part twice in the top division, but had to accept immediate relegation there. At the U20 World Cup 2016 , the Belarusians played first class for the first time in nine years, but had to accept immediate relegation after a total of six defeats from six games. Also in 2018 the league did not succeed.
The U20 team has been taking part in regular play in the Belarusian extra league since 2016 .
World Cup placements
- 1993 - Qualification for the C-WM, 3rd place
- 1994 - Qualification for the C-WM, 4th place
- 1995 - C1-WM, 4th place
- 1996 - C-WM, 4th place
- 1997 - C-WM, 1st place
- 1998 - B-WM, 1st place
- 1999 - 10th place
- 2000 - B-WM, 1st place
- 2001 - 9th place
- 2002 - 9th place
- 2003 - 10th place
- 2004 - Div. I, 1st place
- 2005 - 10th place (relegation)
- 2006 - Div. I, 1st place
- 2007 - 10th place
- 2008 - Div. I, 2nd place
- 2009 - Div. I, 2nd place
- 2010 - Div. I, 2nd place
- 2011 - Div. I, 2nd place
- 2012 - Div. IA, 2nd place
- 2013 - Div. IA, 2nd place
- 2014 - Div. IA, 3rd place
- 2015 - Div. IA, 1st place
- 2016 - 10th place
- 2017 - Div. IA, 1st place
- 2018 - 10th place
- 2019 - Div. IA, 2nd place
- 2020 - Div. IA, 3rd place
Web links
- Overview of international matches for the Belarusian U20 national team (PDF) at nationalteamsoficehockey.com