1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1985 WJHC) was the ninth edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held mainly in Turku and Helsinki, Finland. Canada won the gold medal, its second championship, Czechoslovakia silver and the Soviet Union bronze.

1985 IIHF World U20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Finland
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Dates	December 23, 1984 – January 1, 1985
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Canada (2nd title)
Runners-up	Czechoslovakia
Third place	Soviet Union
Fourth place	Finland
Tournament statistics
Games played	28
Goals scored	230 (8.21 per game)
Attendance	61,023 (2,179 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Esa Keskinen (20 points)
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Final standings

The 1985 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Canada	7	5	0	2	44	14	+30	12
2	Czechoslovakia	7	5	0	2	32	13	+19	12
3	Soviet Union	7	5	2	0	38	17	+21	10
4	Finland	7	4	1	2	42	20	+22	10
5	Sweden	7	3	4	0	32	26	+6	6
6	United States	7	2	5	0	23	37	−14	4
7	West Germany	7	0	6	1	9	44	−35	1
8	Poland	7	0	6	1	10	59	−49	1

Source: Hockey Canada

Poland was relegated to Pool B for 1986.

Results

December 23, 1984

Canada

8 – 2

Sweden

Helsinki

December 23, 1984

Soviet Union

10 – 0

Poland

Vantaa

December 23, 1984

Finland

9 – 0

West Germany

Turku

December 23, 1984

Czechoslovakia

9 – 1

United States

Turku

December 25, 1984

Canada

12 – 1

Poland

Turku

December 25, 1984

Soviet Union

12 – 1

West Germany

Vantaa

December 25, 1984

Czechoslovakia

4 – 3

Sweden

Helsinki

December 25, 1984

Finland

7 – 4

United States

Turku

December 26, 1984

Canada

6 – 0

West Germany

Helsinki

December 26, 1984

Czechoslovakia

6 – 2

Poland

Espoo

December 26, 1984

Finland

5 – 3

Sweden

Turku

December 26, 1984

Soviet Union

4 – 2

United States

Turku

December 28, 1984

Canada

7 – 5

United States

Turku

December 28, 1984

Soviet Union

5 – 1

Sweden

Turku

December 28, 1984

Czechoslovakia

7 – 3

West Germany

Vantaa

December 28, 1984

Finland

11 – 2

Poland

Helsinki

December 29, 1984

Canada

5 – 0

Soviet Union

Turku

December 29, 1984

Sweden

11 – 0

Poland

Turku

December 29, 1984

Czechoslovakia

1 – 1

Finland

Helsinki

December 29, 1984

United States

2 – 1

West Germany

Helsinki

December 31, 1984

Finland

4 – 4

Canada

Helsinki

December 31, 1984

Sweden

5 – 1

West Germany

Turku

December 31, 1984

Czechoslovakia

3 – 1

Soviet Union

Turku

December 31, 1984

United States

6 – 2

Poland

January 1, 1985

Canada

2 – 2

Czechoslovakia

Helsinki

January 1, 1985

Poland

3 – 3

West Germany

Vantaa

January 1, 1985

Soviet Union

6 – 5

Finland

Helsinki

January 1, 1985

Sweden

7 – 3

United States

Vantaa

Scoring leaders

Rank	Player	Country	G	A	Pts
1	Esa Keskinen	Finland	6	14	20
2	Esa Tikkanen	Finland	7	12	19
3	Brian Bradley	Canada	9	5	14
4	Peter Andersson	Sweden	4	10	14
5	Mikko Mäkelä	Finland	11	2	13
6	Michal Pivoňka	Czechoslovakia	9	4	13
7	Adam Creighton	Canada	8	4	12
8	Sergei Novosyolov	Soviet Union	3	9	12
9	Alexander Semak	Soviet Union	7	4	11
10	Ravil Khaidarov	Soviet Union	6	3	9

Tournament awards

	IIHF Directorate Awards	Media All-Star Team
Goaltender	Craig Billington	Timo Lehkonen
Defencemen	Vesa Salo	Bobby Dollas Mikhail Tatarinov
Forwards	Michal Pivoňka	Michal Pivoňka Esa Tikkanen Mikko Mäkelä

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Sapporo Japan from March 15 to 24. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Switzerland	7	7	0	0	58	22	+36	14			5–4	5–3	20–7	6–1	7–1	8–6	7–0
2	Netherlands	7	5	1	1	47	14	+33	11		4–5		4–4	8–1	5–1	7–1	7–1	12–1
3	Japan	7	4	2	1	34	23	+11	9		3–5	4–4		10–3	3–1	5–2	3–5	6–3
4	Austria	7	3	3	1	30	53	−23	7		7–20	1–8	3–10		5–5	3–2	7–6	4–2
5	Norway	7	2	4	1	23	28	−5	5		1–6	1–5	1–3	5–5		1–2	7–1	7–6
6	Italy	7	2	5	0	14	28	−14	4		1–7	1–7	2–5	2–3	2–1		5–3	1–2
7	Romania	7	1	5	1	27	42	−15	3		6–8	1–7	5–3	6–7	1–7	3–5		5–5
8	France	7	1	5	1	19	42	−23	3		0–7	1–12	3–6	2–4	6–7	2–1	5–5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Switzerland was promoted to Pool A and France was relegated to Pool C for 1986.

Pool C

This tournament took place in Belgium from February 22 to 27. It was played in Brussels, Heist-op-den-Berg, Liège, Geel, Deurne and Antwerp.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Bulgaria	5	5	0	0	28	17	+11	10			3–2	11–9	5–1	4–1	5–4
2	Hungary	5	4	1	0	35	12	+23	8		2–3		6–1	10–2	11–2	6–4
3	Belgium	5	2	2	1	32	27	+5	5		9–11	1–6		5–5	11–1	6–4
4	Denmark [A]	5	2	2	1	20	24	−4	5		1–5	2–10	5–5		8–1	4–3
5	Great Britain	5	1	4	0	10	37	−27	2		1–4	2–11	1–11	1–8		5–3
6	Spain	5	0	5	0	18	26	−8	0		4–5	4–6	4–6	3–4	3–5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Bulgaria was promoted to Pool B for 1986.

^ A. While Total Hockey lists Denmark in their standings, passionhockey.com states that this was a Netherlands team that does not count in the standings. The IIHF encyclopedia does not include Denmark in the 1985 standings.