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2001 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2001 IIHF World U18 Championships were held in Heinola, Helsinki, and Lahti, Finland. The championships ran between April 12 and April 22, 2001. Games were played at the Heinolan Jäähalli in Heinola, the Helsinki Ice Hall in Helsinki, and the Lahden Jäähalli in Lahti. Russia defeated Switzerland 6-2 in the final to win the gold medal, with Finland defeating the Czech Republic 2-1 to capture the bronze medal.

2001 IIHF World U18 Championship
Tournament details
Host country Finland
Venue(s)3 (in 3 host cities)
DatesApril 12–22, 2001
Teams10
Final positions
Champions  Russia (1st title)
Runner-up   Switzerland
Third place  Finland
Fourth place Czech Republic
Tournament statistics
Games played31
Goals scored226 (7.29 per game)
Attendance26,594 (858 per game)
Scoring leader(s)Russia Ilya Kovalchuk (15 points)
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Championship results edit

Preliminary round edit

Group A edit

Pos Team Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts
1   Finland 4 4 0 0 17 3 +14 8
2   United States 4 3 1 0 23 7 +16 6
3    Switzerland 4 2 2 0 12 10 +2 4
4   Slovakia 4 1 3 0 14 15 −1 2
5   Ukraine 4 0 4 0 3 34 −31 0
Source: [citation needed]
Results edit
April 12, 2001  Ukraine2–6   SwitzerlandLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 312
April 12, 2001  Slovakia0–3  FinlandLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 846
April 13, 2001  United States11–0  UkraineLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 397
April 14, 2001   Switzerland5–2  SlovakiaLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 634
April 14, 2001  Finland4–3  United StatesLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 2,012
April 15, 2001  Ukraine0–7  FinlandLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 1,316
April 16, 2001   Switzerland1–3  United StatesLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 338
April 16, 2001  Slovakia10–1  UkraineLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 300
April 17, 2001  United States6–2  SlovakiaLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 300
April 17, 2001  Finland3–0   SwitzerlandLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 2,037

Group B edit

Pos Team Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts
1   Russia 4 3 1 0 29 11 +18 6
2   Germany 4 2 1 1 10 12 −2 5
3   Czech Republic 4 2 2 0 13 14 −1 4
4   Sweden 4 2 2 0 10 10 0 4
5   Norway 4 0 3 1 8 23 −15 1
Source: [citation needed]
Results edit
April 12, 2001  Czech Republic3–8  RussiaHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 613
April 12, 2001  Norway3–4  SwedenHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 498
April 13, 2001  Germany2–2  NorwayHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 616
April 14, 2001  Sweden1–2  Czech RepublicHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 537
April 14, 2001  Russia8–3  GermanyHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 416
April 15, 2001  Norway1–10  RussiaHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 550
April 16, 2001  Sweden1–2  GermanyHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 540
April 16, 2001  Czech Republic7–2  NorwayHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 570
April 17, 2001  Russia3–4  SwedenHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 640
April 17, 2001  Germany3–1  Czech RepublicHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 525

Relegation Round edit

Pos Team Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts
1   Sweden 3 3 0 0 18 8 +10 6
2   Slovakia 3 1 1 1 15 10 +5 3
3   Norway 3 1 1 1 12 10 +2 3
4   Ukraine 3 0 3 0 7 24 −17 0
Source: [citation needed]

Note: The following matches from the preliminary round carry forward to the relegation round:

Ukraine was relegated. However with Canada entering the tournament for 2002, Ukraine was re-instated to top level as the tournament was expanded to 12 teams for a year.

Results edit

April 19, 2001  Slovakia4–4  NorwayHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 340
April 19, 2001  Sweden9–4  UkraineHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 410
April 20, 2001  Sweden5–1  SlovakiaHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 325
April 20, 2001  Norway5–2  UkraineHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 300

Final round edit

Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
B1   Russia 8
A2   United States 4 QF1   Czech Republic 3
B3   Czech Republic 5 SF1   Russia 6
SF2    Switzerland 2
A1   Finland 2
B2   Germany 1 QF2    Switzerland 4
A3    Switzerland 7

Quarterfinals edit

April 19, 2001  Germany1–7   SwitzerlandLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 329
April 19, 2001  United States4–5 (SO)  Czech RepublicLahden Jäähalli, Lahti
Attendance: 519

Semifinals edit

April 20, 2001  Russia8–3  Czech RepublicHelsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki
Attendance: 2,152
April 20, 2001   Switzerland4–2  FinlandHelsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki
Attendance: 2,811

Fifth place game edit

April 22, 2001  United States1–2  GermanyHeinolan Jäähalli, Heinola
Attendance: 335

Bronze medal game edit

April 22, 2001  Finland2–1  Czech RepublicHelsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki

Gold medal game edit

April 22, 2001  Russia6–2   SwitzerlandHelsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki
Attendance: 5,076

Final standings edit

Rk. Team
    Russia
     Switzerland
    Finland
4   Czech Republic
5   Germany
6   United States
7   Sweden
8   Slovakia
9   Norway
10   Ukraine

  Ukraine were supposed to be relegated to Division I for the 2002 IIHF World U18 Championships, however with the late addition of   Canada it was decided to temporarily expand the tournament to twelve teams.[1]

Scoring leaders edit

Player Country GP G A Pts PIM
Ilya Kovalchuk   Russia 6 11 4 15 26
Igor Grigorenko   Russia 6 6 4 10 8
Yuri Trubachev   Russia 6 2 7 9 8
Tomas Jasko   Slovakia 6 4 4 8 0
Dwight Helminen   United States 6 3 5 8 0
Petr Kanko   Czech Republic 7 6 1 7 4
Joey Crabb   United States 6 5 2 7 2
Patrik Bärtschi    Switzerland 7 5 2 7 4
Alexander Perezhogin   Russia 6 4 3 7 0
Jiří Novotný   Czech Republic 6 4 3 7 2

Goaltending leaders edit

(Minimum 60 minutes played)

Player Country MINS GA Sv% GAA SO
Tuomas Nissinen   Finland 120:00 1 .974 0.50 1
Yuri Klyuchnikov   Russia 72:47 2 .882 1.65 0
Kari Lehtonen   Finland 239:10 7 .935 1.76 2
Michal Zajkowski   Sweden 120:00 4 .944 2.00 0
Travis Weber   United States 180:00 6 .924 2.00 1

Division I edit

First round edit

Group A (in Riga)
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts BLR JPN DAN PRK
1 Belarus 3 3 0 0 23 8 +15 6 3–2 11–5 9–1
2 Japan 3 2 0 1 17 7 +10 4 2–3 4–2 11–2
3 Denmark 3 1 0 2 12 19 −7 2 5–11 2–4 5–4
4 North Korea 3 0 0 3 7 25 −18 0 1–9 2–11 4–5
Source: [citation needed]
Group B (in Liepaja)
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts AUT LAT KAZ ITA
1 Austria 3 2 1 0 10 5 +5 5 3–0 5–3 2–2
2 Latvia 3 1 1 1 13 9 +4 3 0–3 5–5 8–1
3 Kazakhstan 3 1 1 1 12 10 +2 3 3–5 5–5 4–0
4 Italy 3 0 1 2 3 14 −11 1 2–2 1–8 0–4
Source: [citation needed]

Final round edit

5th-8th place
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts KAZ ITA DAN PRK
1 Kazakhstan 3 3 0 0 24 4 +20 6 (4–0) 8–2 12–2
2 Italy 3 2 0 1 11 12 −1 4 (0–4) 6–5 5–3
3 Denmark 3 1 0 2 12 18 −6 2 2–8 5–6 (5–4)
4 North Korea 3 0 0 3 9 22 −13 0 2–12 3–5 (4–5)
Source: [citation needed]
1st-4th place
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts BLR AUT JPN LAT
1 Belarus 3 2 1 0 14 9 +5 5 4–4 (3–2) 7–3
2 Austria 3 1 2 0 10 7 +3 4 4–4 3–3 (3–0)
3 Japan 3 1 1 1 10 8 +2 3 (2–3) 3–3 5–2
4 Latvia 3 0 0 3 5 15 −10 0 3–7 (0–3) 2–5
Source: [citation needed]

  Belarus were promoted to the top level, and   North Korea were relegated to Division II for the 2002 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Division II edit

First round edit

Group A (in Kaunas)
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts SLO POL CRO HUN
1 Slovenia 3 3 0 0 31 2 +29 6 10–1 11–0 10–1
2 Poland 3 2 0 1 24 11 +13 4 1–10 10–1 13–0
3 Croatia 3 1 0 2 8 27 −19 2 0–11 1–10 7–6
4 Hungary 3 0 0 3 7 30 −23 0 1–10 0–13 6–7
Source: [citation needed]
Group B (in Elektrėnai)
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts FRA EST GBR LTU
1 France 3 2 1 0 21 4 +17 5 4–4 9–0 8–0
2 Estonia 3 2 1 0 16 8 +8 5 4–4 6–2 6–2
3 Great Britain 3 1 0 2 10 18 −8 2 0–9 2–6 8–3
4 Lithuania 3 0 0 3 5 22 −17 0 0–8 2–6 3–8
Source: [citation needed]

Finals edit

7th place
31 March 2001 Kaunas Lithuania – Hungary 1:11 (0:3,1:1,0:7)
5th place
31 March 2001 Kaunas Great Britain – Croatia 5:4 (0:1,1:1,4:2)
3rd place
31 March 2001 Elektrėnai Poland – Estonia 4:2 (1:1,0:0,3:1)
Final
31 March 2001 Elektrėnai Slovenia – France 5:2 (1:1,4:0,0:1)

  Slovenia were promoted to the Division I, and   Lithuania were relegated to Division III for the 2002 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Division III edit

First round edit

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts ROM RSA BEL YUG
1 Romania 3 3 0 0 16 2 +14 6 10–0 5–2 1–0
2 South Africa 3 2 0 1 7 15 −8 4 0–10 3–2 4–3
3 Belgium 3 1 0 2 8 9 −1 2 2–5 2–3 4–1
4 Yugoslavia 3 0 0 3 4 9 −5 0 0–1 3–4 1–4
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: [citation needed]
Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts NED ESP BUL ISR
1 Netherlands 3 3 0 0 35 3 +32 6 11–0 14–1 10–2
2 Spain 3 2 0 1 19 16 +3 4 0–11 13–2 6–3
3 Bulgaria 3 1 0 2 5 27 −22 2 1–14 2–13 2–0
4 Israel 3 0 0 3 5 18 −13 0 2–10 3–6 0–2
Source: [citation needed]

Final edit

7th place
11 March 2001 Sofia Yugoslavia – Israel 7:6 n.P. (1:2,2:3,3:1,0:0,1:0)
5th place
11 March 2001 Sofia Bulgaria – Belgium 3:11 (1:2,0:4,2:5)
3rd place
11 March 2001 Sofia Spain – South Africa 8:1 (4:0,2:1,2:0)
Final
11 March 2001 Sofia Netherlands – Romania 4:3 (1:1,2:0,1:2)

  Netherlands were promoted to the Division II, and   Israel were relegated to Division III Qualification (which was not played, Israel returned to competition in 2003) for the 2002 IIHF World U18 Championships.

References edit

  1. ^ Ukraine avoids relegation

External links edit

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