2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

The 2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was played in Reykjavík, Iceland, from 14 to 20 January 2019.^[1][2] Eight teams participated in the competition; they were drawn into two preliminary round groups of four. China won the tournament and were promoted to Division II B for 2020.

2019 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division III

Tournament details
Host country	Iceland
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	14–20 January 2019
Teams	8
Tournament statistics
Games played	20
Goals scored	165 (8.25 per game)
Attendance	3,155 (158 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Yan Juncheng (20 points)
Official website
www.iihf.com
← 2018 2020 →

See also: 2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

To be eligible as a junior, a player cannot be born earlier than 1999.

Bulgarian forward Miroslav Vasilev became the all-time leading scorer in Division III play with 42 points.

Participating teams

Team	Qualification
Turkey	placed 6th in Division II B last year and were relegated
China	placed 2nd in Division III last year
Bulgaria	placed 3rd in Division III last year
Iceland	hosts; placed 4th in Division III last year
Australia	placed 5th in Division III last year
New Zealand	placed 6th in Division III last year
South Africa	placed 1st in Division III Qualification last year
Chinese Taipei	placed 2nd in Division III Qualification last year

Preliminary round

All times are local (Western European Time – UTC±0).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	2	0	1	0	12	10	+2	7	Semifinals
2	Turkey	3	2	0	0	1	11	8	+3	6
3	Iceland (H)	3	1	1	0	1	11	8	+3	5	5th–8th place playoffs
4	Chinese Taipei	3	0	0	0	3	3	11	−8	0

Source: IIHF
(H) Host

14 January 2019 17:00

Iceland

5–4 OT (2–1, 1–1, 1–2) (OT: 1–0)

Australia

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 532

Game reference
	Maksymilian Mojzyszek	Goalies	Seb Woodlands	Referee: Fraser Lawrence Linesmen: Kevin Briganti Gil Haim Tichon
	Maack (Árnason, G. Arason) (PP,EA) – 10:21 1–0 1–1 11:01 – Vasquez (Manwarring, Wang) (SH) Gunnarsson (Maack) (PP) – 15:48 2–1 Grant (Orongan, G. Arason) (PP) – 22:05 3–1 3–2 35:48 – Wang (Wardlaw) 3–3 40:30 – Vasquez (Sillato) (PP) 3–4 50:45 – Wardlaw (Hayashi) Kristveigarson (Atlason, Orongan) – 51:53 4–4 Orongan (Kristveigarson, Þorsteinsson) – 60:37 5–4
	8 min	Penalties	38 min
	36	Shots	26

14 January 2019 20:30

Turkey

4–1 (3–0, 1–0, 0–1)

Chinese Taipei

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 27

Game reference
	Burak Gümüşlü	Goalies	Huang Sheng-chun	Referee: Zsolt Csomortani Linesmen: Óli Gunnarsson Andreas Kroyer
	Taygar (PP) – 13:32 1–0 Taygar – 14:23 2–0 Taygar (H. Salt) – 19:44 3–0 Gökçen (Elakaş) (PP) – 30:20 4–0 4–1 58:58 – Sang (Chen K.)
	6 min	Penalties	14 min
	54	Shots	18

15 January 2019 17:00

Iceland

4–0 (0–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Chinese Taipei

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 350

Game reference
	Maksymilian Mojzyszek	Goalies	Huang Sheng-сhun	Referee: Cemal Ersin Kaya Linesmen: Karolis Janušauskas Nicholas Verbruggen
	Orongan (Grant) – 24:27 1–0 G. Arason (Grant) – 35:20 2–0 Grant (G. Arason) – 42:18 3–0 Gunnarsson – 58:00 4–0
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	53	Shots	21

15 January 2019 20:30

Australia

5–3 (1–0, 0–2, 4–1)

Turkey

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 58

Game reference
	Seb Woodlands	Goalies	Burak Gümüşlü	Referee: Christoffer Hurtik Linesmen: Sindri Gunnarson Daniel Sparer
	Hayashi (Vasquez) (PP) – 13:29 1–0 1–1 35:22 – Ulaş (PP) 1–2 37:47 – Demirezen McGuiness – 40:23 2–2 2–3 43:32 – H. Salt Vasquez (Manwarring, McGuiness) – 45:55 3–3 Wardlaw (Hayashi) – 47:25 4–3 Brunt – 59:25 5–3
	24 min	Penalties	14 min
	35	Shots	21

17 January 2019 10:00

Chinese Taipei

2–3 (0–1, 0–2, 2–1)

Australia

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 38

Game reference
	Huang Sheng-chun	Goalies	Seb Woodlands	Referee: Zsolt Csomortani Linesmen: Karolis Janušauskas Nicholas Verbruggen
	0–1 04:10 – Hayashi (Tripp, Lodge) 0–2 35:08 – McGuiness (Manwarring, Vasquez) Lin K. (Cheung) (PP) – 46:07 1–2 1–3 51:04 – McGuiness (Manwarring) Cheung (Chen P., Chen K.) – 58:47 2–3
	18 min	Penalties	4 min
	27	Shots	53

17 January 2019 17:00

Turkey

4–2 (1–1, 1–1, 2–0)

Iceland

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 400

Game reference
	Burak Gümüşlü	Goalies	Maksymilian Mojzyszek	Referee: Adam Kika Linesmen: Oscar Perez Daniel Sparer
	H. Salt (PP) – 07:48 1–0 1–1 10:42 – Kristveigarson (Orongan) H. Salt – 23:15 2–1 2–2 24:35 – Kristveigarson (V. Arason, Atlason) (SH) Afşin (Salt) (PP) – 46:31 3–2 Bingöl (H. Salt) (ENG) – 59:43 4–2
	6 min	Penalties	20 min
	23	Shots	37

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	0	0	32	3	+29	9	Semifinals
2	Bulgaria	3	2	0	0	1	20	7	+13	6
3	South Africa	3	1	0	0	2	3	24	−21	3	5th–8th place playoffs
4	New Zealand	3	0	0	0	3	1	22	−21	0

Source: IIHF

14 January 2019 10:00

Bulgaria

10–1 (2–0, 4–1, 4–0)

South Africa

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 53

Game reference
	Ivan Stoynov	Goalies	Ryan Boyd Alistair Bywater	Referee: Cemal Kaya Linesmen: Sindri Gunnarsson Nicholas Verbruggen
	Vasilev (Vachkov) (SH) – 01:37 1–0 Vachkov (Vasilev, T. Abdi) (PP) – 14:37 2–0 2–1 23:09 – Schuurman (J. Venter) (SH) Dikov (Vasilev, Vachkov) (PP) – 25:44 3–1 Vachkov (Dikov) (PP) – 35:17 4–1 T. Abdi (Vachkov) (PP) – 36:51 5–1 Tsitselkov (Dzhorov, Nakov) – 37:00 6–1 Tsitselkov (Vasilev, Stoilov) – 47:32 7–1 Veselinov (Gatsev) (PP) – 52:48 8–1 Nakov – 56:01 9–1 Veselinov (Penchev) – 56:22 10–1
	8 min	Penalties	14 min
	36	Shots	22

14 January 2019 13:30

China

12–1 (2–0, 5–0, 5–1)

New Zealand

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 196

Game reference
	Wu Siming	Goalies	Drew Kinney Evan Froger	Referee: Christoffer Hurtik Linesmen: James Ions Daniel Sparer
	Guo (Yan J., Zhang D.) – 00:13 1–0 Li (Yang) (EA) – 09:29 2–0 Chu (Wang J.) – 21:38 3–0 Huang (Wang J.) – 23:22 4–0 Yan J. (Guo, Zhang D.) (SH) – 31:14 5–0 Yan R. (Fu) – 33:39 6–0 Chu (Huang, Zhang D.) (PP) – 36:16 7–0 Chu (Huang, Wang J.) – 42:04 8–0 Huang (Zhang D.) – 53:11 9–0 9–1 54:55 – Boul (Du Plooy, Tappin) Huang (Wang J.) (SH) – 55:35 10–1 Guo (Yan J.) (SH) – 58:28 11–1 Wang J. (Huang) – 59:34 12–1
	10 min	Penalties	8 min
	77	Shots	12

15 January 2019 10:00

Bulgaria

9–0 (3–0, 2–0, 4–0)

New Zealand

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 33

Game reference
	Ivan Stoynov Nikola Georgiev	Goalies	Drew Kinney	Referee: Wong Chun Linesmen: Kevin Briganti Oscar Perez
	Vasilev (Dikov) (PP) – 03:40 1–0 Penchev (Veselinov) – 11:59 2–0 Vachkov (Vasilev) (PP) – 19:03 3–0 T. Abdi (Vasilev) -28:35 4–0 Vasilev (PP) – 38:44 5–0 Penchev (Vasilev, Atanasov) – 43:04 6–0 Dikov (Tsitselkov) – 51:08 7–0 Vachkov (Stoilov) – 54:36 8–0 Tsitselkov (Vasilev) (PP) – 57:52 9–0
	34 min	Penalties	16 min
	42	Shots	21

15 January 2019 13:30

South Africa

1–14 (0–5, 0–6, 1–3)

China

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 45

Game reference
	Ryan Boyd Alistair Bywater	Goalies	Wu Siming	Referee: Adam Kika Linesmen: Óli Gunnarsson Gil Haim Tichon
	0–1 01:44 – Si (Yan J., Zhang D.) (PP) 0–2 04:07 – Si (Yan J., Yan R.) (PP) 0–3 06:01 – Yan J. (Guo, Zhang D.) 0–4 09:05 – Guo (Yan J., Zhang D.) (PP) 0–5 09:19 – Huang (Wang J.) 0–6 22:12 – Wang J. (SH) 0–7 25:41 – Guo 0–8 27:31 – Guo (Yan J.) 0–9 33:21 – Zhang D. (Huang, Yan J.) 0–10 37:22 – Li (Yan J., Yan R.) 0–11 38:47 – Wang J. 0–12 47:45 – Li (Yu, Si) Schuurman (R. Venter) (PP) – 51:07 1–12 1–13 54:15 – Huang (Wang J.) 1–14 59:14 – Yang (Yan J.)
	8 min	Penalties	18 min
	13	Shots	61

17 January 2019 13:30

New Zealand

0–1 (0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

South Africa

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 42

Game reference
	Drew Kinney	Goalies	Ryan Boyd	Referee: Wong Chun Linesmen: Kevin Briganti James Ions
	0–1 49:32 – Schuurman (R. Venter)
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	25	Shots	31

17 January 2019 20:30

China

6–1 (1–0, 2–1, 3–0)

Bulgaria

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 143

Game reference
	Zhang Yuhang	Goalies	Ivan Stoynov	Referee: Fraser Lawrence Linesmen: Andreas Kroyer Gil Haim Tichon
	Zhang H. (Yu, Yan J.) – 10:32 1–0 1–1 34:31 – Nakov Wang J. (Yang, Fu) – 34:51 2–1 Guo (Yan J.) (SH) – 38:44 3–1 Yu (Li, Zhang D.) – 47:44 4–1 Yan J. (Guo, Zhang D.) (PP) – 53:13 5–1 Huang (Wang) – 57:24 6–1
	14 min	Penalties	16 min
	51	Shots	19

5th–8th place playoffs

Bracket

	5th–8th place semifinals					5th place game
	3A	Iceland	11
	4B	New Zealand	1
						3A	Iceland	5
						4A	Chinese Taipei	3
	3B	South Africa	1
	4A	Chinese Taipei	7			7th place game
						3B	South Africa	5
						4B	New Zealand	3

5th–8th place semifinals

19 January 2019 10:00

Iceland

11–1 (6–0, 3–0, 2–1)

New Zealand

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 258

Game reference
	Arnar Hjaltested	Goalies	Drew Kinney Evan Froger	Referee: Fraser Lawrence Linesmen: James Ions Oscar Perez
	Orongan (Atlason, G. Arason) – 00:17 1–0 Þorsteinsson (Kristveigarson) (PP) – 10:29 2–0 V. Arason (Helgason, Gunnarsson) – 14:32 3–0 Kristveigarson (Orongan, Atlason) (PP) – 15:35 4–0 Kristveigarson (SH) – 18:01 5–0 Orongan (Kristveirgarson) – 19:20 6–0 Kristveigarson (Atlason, Hjaltested) – 20:41 7–0 Atlason (Arnason, G. Arason) (PP) – 24:05 8–0 Kristveigarson (Orongan, Thorsteinsson) (PP) – 36:22 9–0 Rúnarsson (Orongan, Ágústsson) – 53:27 10–0 Kristveigarson (Orongan, Atlason) (PP) – 54:25 11–0 11–1 56:28 – Hill (Flight)
	4 min	Penalties	32 min
	63	Shots	10

19 January 2019 13:30

South Africa

1–7 (0–3, 1–2, 0–2)

Chinese Taipei

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 42

Game reference
	Alistair Bywater Ryan Boyd	Goalies	Huang Sheng-chun Lee Yi-cheng	Referee: Cemal Kaya Linesmen: Kevin Briganti Sindri Gunnarsson
	0–1 01:29 – Fu (Chen P., Chen K.) 0–2 04:19 – Sang (Fu, Cheung) (PP) 0–3 06:35 – Lin K. (Sang) 0–4 20:47 – Sang (Chu, Yang H.) 0–5 25:44 – Lin K. (Cheung) (PP) Meyer (Johnson) – 39:38 1–5 1–6 42:54 – Fu 1–7 44:40 – Lin C. (Chen K.)
		Penalties	22 min
	36	Shots	31

Seventh place game

20 January 2019 10:00

South Africa

5–3 (3–1, 0–2, 2–0)

New Zealand

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 43

Game reference
	Ryan Boyd	Goalies	Evan Froger	Referee: Adam Kika Linesmen: Karolis Janusauskas Andreas Kroyer
	0–1 02:13 – Boul Phakathi (R. Venter) – 02:50 1–1 Schuurman – 10:59 2–1 Schuurman (Phakathi) (PP) – 12:15 3–1 3–2 34:07 – Hill 3–3 37:12 – Boul (Lilly) Delport (Meyer) – 50:20 4–3 Meyer (Delport, J. Venter) – 55:03 5–3
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	38	Shots	31

Fifth place game

20 January 2019 13:30

Iceland

5–3 (2–1, 2–1, 1–1)

Chinese Taipei

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 295

Game reference
	Arnar Hjaltested	Goalies	Huang Sheng-chun	Referee: Wong Chung Linesmen: James Ions Gil Tichon
	Atlason (Orongan, Kristveigarson) – 00:40 1–0 Maack (Grant) – 18:13 2–0 2–1 19:00 – Chen K. (Fu) Gunnarsson (G. Arason) (PP) – 21:39 3–1 Grant (Þorsteinsson) (PP) – 29:02 4–1 4–2 36:48 – Lin K. (Chen K., Cheung) (PP) 4–3 53:21 – Chen K. (Chen P.) Orongan (Ágústsson) (ENG) – 59:08 5–3
	10 min	Penalties	16 min
	71	Shots	21

Championship playoffs

Bracket

	Semifinals					Final
	1A	Australia	7
	2B	Bulgaria	4
						1A	Australia	1
						1B	China	5
	1B	China	12
	2A	Turkey	1			3rd place game
						2B	Bulgaria	0
						2A	Turkey	6

Semifinals

19 January 2019 17:00

Australia

7–4 (2–1, 1–2, 4–1)

Bulgaria

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 75

Game reference
	Seb Woodlands	Goalies	Ivan Stoynov	Referee: Adam Kika Linesmen: Andreas Kroyer Daniel Sparer
	Vasquez (McGuiness) (PP) – 07:17 1–0 1–1 10:02 – Nakov Sillato (Manwarring, Brunt) (PP) – 11:10 2–1 Brunt (Wardlaw, Sillato) – 25:13 3–1 3–2 27:20 – Vasilev (T. Abdi) 3–3 28:19 – Stoilov Manwarring (Vasquez, McGuiness) – 44:15 4–3 4–4 49:51 – T. Abdi (Vachkov, Vasilev) (PP) Sillato (PP) – 56:59 5–4 Manwarring (Vasquez, Brunt) (PP,ENG) – 58:15 6–4 Hayashi (Sillato, Vasquez) (ENG) – 59:47 7–4
	2 min	Penalties	40 min
	44	Shots	32

19 January 2019 20:30

China

12–1 (1–1, 5–0, 6–0)

Turkey

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 100

Game reference
	Wu Siming	Goalies	Burak Gümüşlü	Referee: Christoffer Hurtik Linesmen: Oli Gunnarsson Karolis Janusauskas
	Chu (Huang, Wang J.) (PP) – 11:51 1–0 1–1 19:24 – K. Salt (Taygar) (PP) Yan R. (Zhang D., Yan J.) – 30:17 2–1 Li (Yu, Zhang D.) – 32:31 3–1 Yan R. (Guo, Yan J.) – 33:16 4–1 Yan J. (Guo, Zhang D.) – 35:46 5–1 Huang (Chu) – 35:59 6–1 Yan J. (Guo) – 40:45 7–1 Huang (Guo, Zhang D.) (PP) – 43:34 8–1 Yan J. (PP) – 46:02 9–1 Huang (Wang J., Zhang D.) (SH) – 48:47 10–1 Huang (Wang J.) – 55:51 11–1 Yu (Wang Y., Li) – 58:37 12–1
	8 min	Penalties	28 min
	55	Shots	21

Bronze medal game

20 January 2019 17:00

Bulgaria

0–6 (0–2, 0–2, 0–2)

Turkey

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 69

Game reference
	Ivan Stoynov	Goalies	Burak Gümüşlü	Referee: Christoffer Hurtik Linesmen: Oli Gunnarsson Daniel Sparer
	0–1 14:19 – Demirezen (K. Salt, Bingöl) (PP) 0–2 15:09 – Bingol (Taygar, Demirezen) 0–3 34:24 – Gökçen (Şentürk, Taygar) 0–4 38:03 – Bingöl (Taygar) (SH) 0–5 41:04 – Bingöl (Taygar) 0–6 59:02 – Bingöl (Taygar, H. Salt) (PP)
	24 min	Penalties	10 min
	27	Shots	35

Gold medal game

20 January 2019 20:30

China

5–1 (2–0, 1–0, 2–1)

Australia

Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavík Attendance: 356

Game reference
	Wu Siming	Goalies	Seb Woodlands Ethan Spelde	Referee: Fraser Lawrence Linesmen: Kevin Briganti Nicholas Verbruggen
	Yan J. (Yan R., Guo) – 06:21 1–0 Wang J. (Huang) – 06:54 2–0 Guo (Wu) (PP) – 22:09 3–0 Huang – 42:32 4–0 Huang (Zhang D.) (PP) – 50:08 5–0 5–1 55:03 – Hayashi (SH)
	41 min	Penalties	36 min
	50	Shots	20

Final standings

Rank	Team
	China
	Australia
	Turkey
4	Bulgaria
5	Iceland
6	Chinese Taipei
7	South Africa
8	New Zealand

Promoted to the 2020 Division II B

Statistics

Top 10 scorers

Pos	Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
1	Yan Juncheng	China	5	7	13	20	+19	0
2	Huang Qianyi	China	5	11	8	19	+17	32
3	Wang Jing	China	5	5	10	15	+16	0
4	Zhang Dehan	China	5	1	14	15	+19	0
5	Guo Jianing	China	5	7	7	14	+15	2
6	Axel Orongan	Iceland	5	5	8	13	+6	14
7	Heidar Kristveigarson	Iceland	5	8	4	12	+6	0
8	Miroslav Vasilev	Bulgaria	4	3	9	12	+4	38
9	Jeremy Vasquez	Australia	5	4	5	9	+3	4
10	Fatih Taygar	Turkey	5	3	6	9	+1	2

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Pos	Player	Country	MINS	GA	Sv%	GAA	SO
1	Wu Siming	China	240:00	4	93.94	1.00	0
2	Huang Sheng-Chun	Chinese Taipei	283:23	16	93.73	3.39	0
3	Maksymilian Mojzyszek	Iceland	179:00	7	89.86	2.34	1
4	Ivan Stoynov	Bulgaria	283:32	17	89.76	3.60	0
5	Burak Gümüşlü	Turkey	300:00	20	88.30	4.00	1

TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF

Awards

Best Players Selected by the Directorate

• Goaltender: Hung Sheng-Chun
• Defenceman: Zhang Dehan
• Forward: Heidar Kristveigarson