Sweden celebrates their win at the 2012World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

List of IIHF World Under-20 ChampionshipmedalistsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The IIHF World Junior Championship is an annual eventorganized by the International Ice Hockey Federation fornational under-20 ice hockey teams from around the world. It istraditionally held from late December to the beginning ofJanuary. The main tournament features the top ten rankedhockey nations in the world, comprising the "Top Division",from which a world champion is crowned. There are also threelower pools—divisions I, II and III—that each play separatetournaments playing for the right to be promoted to a higherpool with the last place team facing relegation to a lowerpool.[1]

The first official tournament was held in 1977. Prior to that,there had been invitational tournaments in 1974, 1975 and 1976that were not sanctioned by the IIHF.[2]

As of 2015, 39 official tournaments have been staged. Sevennations have won a gold medal and ten have won medals. Historically, the tournament has been dominatedby the Soviet Union/Russia and Canada, together accounting for 29 of the 39 gold medals awarded. Canadaleads the all-time gold medal count with 16 and have won a total of 29 medals, while the SovietUnion/Russia have won the most medals with 33.

Contents

1 Champions1.1 Unofficial tournaments1.2 Official tournaments

2 Future tournaments3 Medal table4 See also5 References6 External links

Champions

Unofficial tournaments

Year Gold Silver Bronze Host city (cities) Hostcountry

1974  SovietUnion  Finland  Canada Leningrad  Soviet

Union

1975  SovietUnion  Canada  Sweden Winnipeg  Canada

1976  SovietUnion  Canada  Czechoslovakia Tampere  Finland

Official tournaments

Key

(#) Number of tournaments won at the time.

Year Gold Silver Bronze Host city(cities) Host country

1977  SovietUnion (1)  Canada (1)  Czechoslovakia

(1)

Banská Bystricaand Zvolen  Czechoslovakia

1978  SovietUnion (2)  Sweden (1)  Canada (1) Montreal  Canada

1979  SovietUnion (3)  Czechoslovakia (1)

 Sweden (1) Karlstad andKarlskoga  Sweden

1980  SovietUnion (4)  Finland (1)  Sweden (2) Helsinki  Finland

1981  Sweden(1)  Finland (2)  Soviet Union

(1) Füssen  WestGermany

1982  Canada(1)  Czechoslovakia (2)

 Finland (1) Minneapolis  UnitedStates

1983  SovietUnion (5)  Czechoslovakia (3)

 Canada (2) Leningrad  Soviet Union

1984  SovietUnion (6)  Finland (3)  Czechoslovakia

(2)

Norrköping andNyköping  Sweden

1985  Canada(2)  Czechoslovakia (3)

 Soviet Union(2)

Helsinki andTurku  Finland

1986  SovietUnion (7)  Canada (2)  United States

(1) Hamilton  Canada

1987  Finland[α]

(1) Czechoslovakia[α]

(5) Sweden[α] (3) Piešťany  Czechoslovakia

(1) (5)

1988  Canada(3)

 Soviet Union(1)

 Finland (2) Moscow  Soviet Union

1989  SovietUnion (8)  Sweden (2)  Czechoslovakia

(3)Anchorage  United

States

1990  Canada(4)

 Soviet Union(2)  Czechoslovakia

(4)

Helsinki andTurku  Finland[β]

1991  Canada(5)

 Soviet Union(3)  Czechoslovakia

(5)Saskatoon  Canada

1992  SovietUnion [3](9)

 Sweden (3)  United States(2)

Füssen andKaufbeuren  Germany

1993  Canada(6)  Sweden (4)  Czechoslovakia

(6)Gävle  Sweden

1994  Canada(7)  Sweden (5)  Russia (1/3) Ostrava and

Frýdek-Místek Czech

Republic

1995 Canada

(8)  Russia (1/4)  Sweden (4) Red Deer  Canada

1996  Canada(9)  Sweden (6)  Russia (2/4) Boston  United

States

1997  Canada(10)

 United States(1)

 Russia (3/5) Geneva andMorges   Switzerland

1998  Finland(2)  Russia (2/5)   Switzerland

(1)Helsinki andHämeenlinna  Finland

1999  Russia(1/10)

 Canada (3)  Slovakia (1) Winnipeg andBrandon  Canada

2000  CzechRepublic (1)

 Russia (3/6)  Canada (3) Skellefteå andUmeå  Sweden

2001  CzechRepublic (2)

 Finland (4)  Canada (4) Moscow andPodolsk  Russia

2002  Russia(2/11)

 Canada (4)  Finland (3) Pardubice andHradec Králové

 CzechRepublic

2003  Russia(3/12)

 Canada (5)  Finland (4) Halifax andSydney  Canada

2004  UnitedStates (1)  Canada (6)  Finland (5) Helsinki and

Hämeenlinna  Finland

2005  Canada(11)  Russia (4/7)  Czech

Republic (1/7)Grand Forks andThief River Falls

 UnitedStates

2006  Canada  Russia (5/8)  Finland (6)Vancouver,Kelowna, and  Canada

2006(12)

 Russia (5/8)  Finland (6) Kelowna, andKamloops

 Canada

2007  Canada(13)

 Russia (6/9)  United States(3) Leksand and Mora  Sweden

2008  Canada(14)  Sweden (7)  Russia (4/6) Pardubice and

Liberec Czech

Republic

2009  Canada(15)  Sweden (8)  Russia (5/7) Ottawa  Canada

2010  UnitedStates (2)  Canada (7)  Sweden (5) Saskatoon and

Regina  Canada

2011  Russia(4/13)  Canada (8)  United States

(4)Buffalo andLewiston[4]

 UnitedStates

2012  Sweden(2)

 Russia (7/10)  Canada (5) Calgary andEdmonton  Canada

2013  UnitedStates (3)  Sweden (9)  Russia (6/8) Ufa  Russia

2014  Finland(3)  Sweden (10)  Russia (7/9) Malmö  Sweden

2015  Canada(16)

 Russia (8/11)  Slovakia (2) Toronto andMontreal  Canada

Future tournamentsThese tournaments have been announced.

Year Host city (cities) Host country2016 Helsinki[5]  Finland

2017 Montreal and Toronto[6]  Canada[7]

2018  United States[8]

2019  Canada[7]

2020  Czech Republic

2021  Canada[7]

Medal tableThe unofficial tournaments held prior to 1977 are not included in this table.

Countries in italics no longer compete at the World Championships.

Country Gold Silver Bronze Medals Canada 16 8 5 29 Russia Soviet Union

Total 

49

13

83

11

729

191433

 Finland 3 4 6 13 United States 3 1 4 8 Sweden 2 10 5 17 Czech Republic Czechoslovakia

Total 

202

055

167

31114

 Slovakia 0 0 2 2  Switzerland 0 0 1 1

See also

List of IIHF World Championship medalists

ReferencesFootnotes

α During the final game of the tournament, Canada and the Soviet Union became engaged in a violent bench-clearing brawl while Canada was leading 4–2. Consequently, the game was declared null and void, and bothteams were ejected from the tournament; while the Soviets were out of medal contention, Canada was playing for

the gold medal and were guaranteed at least a bronze.[9][10]

β Canada will host the tournament every 3 or 4 years. In 1990, Canada decided to switch years with Finland.

General

"IIHF World U20 Championships" (http://www.iihf.com/iihf-home/history/all-medallists/u20.html). InternationalIce Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2008-06-12."World Juniors–medal Winners Since 1974" (http://www.tsn.ca/World_jrs/feature/?fid=1264). TSN. Retrieved2008-06-12."Team Canada > National Junior Team > Past Results" (http://www.hockeycanada.ca/3/5/6/8/index1.shtml).Hockey Canada. Retrieved 2008-06-12."Medal standings" (http://www.worldjuniors2008.com/clanek.asp?id=2418). worldjuniors2008.com. Retrieved2008-06-12.

Specific

1. "Tournament playing format" (http://www.worldjuniors2008.com/clanek.asp?id=2388). worldjuniors2008.com.

Retrieved 2008-06-26.2. "International hockey timeline" (http://www.iihf.com/iihf-home/history/the-iihf/timeline.html). International Ice

Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2008-06-12.3. "IIHF World U20 Championships" (http://www.iihf.com/iihf-home/history/all-medallists/u20.html) International

Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2009-11-20.4. http://www.iihf.com/channels1011/wm20/home.html5. Merk, Martin. "World Juniors in Helsinki" (http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/?

tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=8741&cHash=c3a8c4e6dec3b831cd90983da3f359aa). http://www.iihf.com. IIHF.Retrieved 20 August 2014.

6. http://www2.tsn.ca/world_jrs/story/?id=4258447. "Canada to host more tourneys" (http://www.iihf.com/de/channels/iihf-world-championship-

oc09/home/news/news/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=2277&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=3566&cHash=f492984d4fe45f7689a444c56313b29e). International Ice Hockey Federation. 2010-05-09. Retrieved 2015-01-05.

8. "USA Hockey Awarded Rights to Host Four Additional World Championships"(http://www.nahl.com/news/story.cfm?id=1619). NAHL. Retrieved 6 January 2011.

9. Doug Harrison. "Backgrounder–2008 World Junior Hockey Championship"(http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/backgrounder-world-juniors.html). CBC Sports. Retrieved 2008-06-11.

10. "Team Canada > National Junior Team > History" (http://www.hockeycanada.ca/3/5/6/7/index1.shtml). HockeyCanada. Retrieved 2008-06-12.

External links

International Ice Hockey Federation (http://www.iihf.com/)

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