1993 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 1993 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1993 WJHC) was the 17th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held in Gävle, Sweden. Canada^[1] won the gold medal, its sixth championship, while Sweden won silver, and the combined team of the Czech Republic and Slovakia won bronze. Peter Forsberg of Sweden scored a tournament record 31 points, while teammate Markus Näslund's 13 goals also set a tournament record.

1993 IIHF World U20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Sweden
Venue(s)	7 (in 7 host cities)
Dates	December 26, 1992 – January 4, 1993
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Canada (6th title)
Runners-up	Sweden
Third place	Czechoslovakia
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Games played	28
Goals scored	242 (8.64 per game)
Attendance	36,397 (1,300 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Peter Forsberg (31 points)
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Final standings

The 1993 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. As the tournament was ongoing, the nation of Czechoslovakia was dissolved into two separate nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, on New Years Day, 1993. The team remained unified throughout the tournament, however the Czechoslovak flag and anthem were replaced with the flag and anthem of the International Ice Hockey Federation on January 1.^[2] Meanwhile, the former Soviet Union, which had competed in 1992 as the Commonwealth of Independent States was replaced in this tournament by Russia.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Canada	7	6	1	0	37	17	+20	12
2	Sweden	7	6	1	0	53	15	+38	12
3	Czech Republic and Slovakia[a]	7	4	2	1	38	27	+11	9
4	United States	7	4	3	0	32	23	+9	8
5	Finland	7	3	3	1	31	20	+11	7
6	Russia	7	2	3	2	26	20	+6	6
7	Germany	7	1	6	0	16	37	−21	2
8	Japan	7	0	7	0	9	83	−74	0

Source: Hockey Canada
Notes:

1. started championship as  Czechoslovakia

Japan was relegated to Pool B for 1994.

Results

December 26, 1992

Canada

3 – 0

United States

Gävle

December 26, 1992

Russia

16 – 0

Japan

Falun

December 26, 1992

Finland

5 – 2

Czechoslovakia

Bollnäs

December 26, 1992

Sweden

4 – 2

Germany

Gävle

December 27, 1992

Canada

5 – 4

Sweden

Gävle

December 27, 1992

Russia

4 – 0

Germany

Falun

December 27, 1992

Finland

7 – 0

Japan

Gävle

December 27, 1992

Czechoslovakia

6 – 5

United States

Uppsala

December 29, 1992

Canada

9 – 1

Russia

Gävle

December 29, 1992

Finland

11 – 0

Germany

Hofors

December 29, 1992

United States

12 – 2

Japan

Falun

December 29, 1992

Sweden

7 – 2

Czechoslovakia

Gävle

December 30, 1992

Canada

3 – 2

Finland

Uppsala

December 30, 1992

Czechoslovakia

1 – 1

Russia

Gävle

December 30, 1992

Sweden

20 – 1

Japan

Gävle

December 30, 1992

United States

4 – 3

Germany

Bollnäs

January 1, 1993

Canada

5 – 2

Germany

Gävle

January 1, 1993

Czech Republic and Slovakia

14 – 2

Japan

Skutskar

January 1, 1993

Finland

1 – 1

Russia

Gävle

January 1, 1993

Sweden

4 – 2

United States

Uppsala

January 2, 1993

Canada

8 – 1

Japan

Hudiksvall

January 2, 1993

Sweden

9 – 2

Finland

Gävle

January 2, 1993

Czech Republic and Slovakia

6 – 3

Germany

Uppsala

January 2, 1993

United States

4 – 2

Russia

Gävle

January 4, 1993

Czech Republic and Slovakia

7 – 4

Canada

Gävle

January 4, 1993

Germany

6 – 3

Japan

Hofors

January 4, 1993

Sweden

5 – 1

Russia

Gävle

January 4, 1993

United States

5 – 3

Finland

Gävle

Scoring leaders

Rank	Player	Country	G	A	Pts
1	Peter Forsberg	Sweden	7	24	31
2	Markus Näslund	Sweden	13	11	24
3	David Výborný	Czechoslovakia	6	9	15
4	Niklas Sundström	Sweden	10	4	14
5	Jere Lehtinen	Finland	6	8	14
6	Pat Peake	United States	4	9	13
7	Peter Ferraro	United States	7	4	11
8	Ville Peltonen	Finland	5	6	11
9	Chris Ferraro	United States	4	7	11
10	Jan Vopat	Czechoslovakia	6	4	10

Tournament awards

	IIHF Directorate Awards	Media All-Star Team
Goaltender	Manny Legace	Manny Legace
Defencemen	Janne Grönvall	Brent Tully Kenny Jönsson
Forwards	Peter Forsberg	Paul Kariya Markus Näslund Peter Forsberg

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Lillehammer and Hamar Norway from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.^[3]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Switzerland	7	6	0	1	39	13	+26	13			5–4	5–1	7–1	6–4	4–2	1–1	11–0
2	Norway	7	6	1	0	49	11	+38	12		4–5		5–0	7–0	8–4	7–1	9–1	9–0
3	Italy	7	4	2	1	23	18	+5	9		1–5	0–5		3–1	6–3	0–0	7–3	6–1
4	Austria	7	4	3	0	26	23	+3	8		1–7	0–7	1–3		2–1	6–3	9–1	7–1
5	France	7	3	4	0	26	30	−4	6		4–6	4–8	3–6	1–2		4–3	5–2	5–3
6	Poland	7	1	5	1	17	28	−11	3		2–4	1–7	0–0	3–6	3–4		5–3	3–4
7	Romania	7	1	5	1	16	37	−21	3		1–1	1–9	3–7	1–9	2–5	3–5		5–1
8	Netherlands	7	1	6	0	10	46	−36	2		0–11	0–9	1–6	1–7	3–5	4–3	1–5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Switzerland was promoted to Pool A and the Netherlands was relegated to Pool C for 1994.

Qualification for Pool C

Nine countries played a qualification tournament from November 10 to 15, for a spot in the C Pool. Five teams played in Riga, Latvia while the remaining four played in Minsk Belarus, with the first place teams playing each other in Riga. Greece was the only competitor who was not making their debut.

Riga Group

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Latvia	4	4	0	0	71	5	+66	8			2–1	12–3	10–0	47–1
Slovenia	4	3	1	0	46	6	+40	6		1–2		4–3	11–0	30–1
Estonia	4	2	2	0	46	21	+25	4		3–12	3–4		6–3	34–2
Croatia	4	1	3	0	24	27	−3	2		0–10	0–11	3–6		21–0
Greece	4	0	4	0	4	132	−128	0		1–47	1–30	2–34	0–21

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Minsk Group

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ukraine	3	3	0	0	24	0	+24	6			1–0	3–0	20–0
Kazakhstan	3	2	1	0	17	1	+16	4		0–1		4–0	13–0
Belarus	3	1	2	0	19	7	+12	2		0–3	0–4		19–0
Lithuania	3	0	3	0	0	52	−52	0		0–20	0–13	0–19

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Qualification Game

November 15, 1992

Latvia

1 – 2 (0–1, 0–0, 1–1)

Ukraine

Riga

 Ukraine won the right to participate in Pool C.

Pool C

Eight teams were divided into two round robin groups, with placement games to follow (1st played 1st, etc.). The tournament took place from December 30 to January 3, in Odense and Esbjerg Denmark.

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ukraine	3	3	0	0	38	3	+35	6			9–2	16–1	13–0
Hungary	3	1	1	1	15	15	0	3		2–9		5–5	8–1
North Korea	3	0	1	2	9	24	−15	2		1–16	5–5		3–3
Spain	3	0	2	1	4	24	−20	1		0–13	1–8	3–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Denmark	3	2	0	1	23	10	+13	5			9–1	5–5	9–4
Bulgaria	3	1	1	1	12	17	−5	3		1–9		6–3	5–5
Great Britain	3	1	1	1	15	12	+3	3		5–5	3–6		7–1
South Korea	3	0	2	1	10	21	−11	1		4–9	5–5	1–7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Placement Games

• 7th place: Spain 13 - 2  South Korea
• 5th place: Great Britain 4 - 2  North Korea
• 3rd place: Hungary 15 - 4  Bulgaria
• 1st Place: Ukraine 8 - 3  Denmark

 Ukraine was promoted to Pool B for 1994.