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 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.

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. Meanwhile, the former Soviet Union, which had competed in 1992 as the Commonwealth of Independent States was replaced in this tournament by Russia.

Japan was relegated to Pool B for 1994.

Results

Scoring leaders

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

Tournament awards

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

Standings

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

Minsk Group

Qualification Game

Template:Ihj 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

Group B

Placement Games

• 7th place:Template:Ihj 13 - 2 Template:Ihj
• 5th place:Template:Ihj 4 - 2 Template:Ihj
• 3rd place:Template:Ihj 15 - 4 Template:Ihj
• 1st Place:Template:Ihj 8 - 3 Template:Ihj

Template:Ihj was promoted to Pool B for 1994.

External links

• pre-tournament interview with Peter Forsberg and Markus Näslund at SVT's open archive Template:In lang