1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1999 IIHF U20 World Championship
Tournament details

Host country	Canada
Dates	December 26 – January 5
Teams	10
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Russia (1st title)
Runner-up	Canada
Third place	Slovakia
Fourth place	Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	225 (7.26 per match)
Attendance	173,453 (5,595 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Brian Gionta (11 points)
← 1998 2000 →

The 1999 Ice Hockey World Junior Championship (1999 WJC) was held in Winnipeg, and five other communities in Manitoba, Canada from December 26, 1998 to January 5, 1999. In the gold medal match at Winnipeg Arena, Russia defeated Canada 3-2 on Artem Chubarov's overtime goal. The bronze medal was claimed by Slovakia, giving the six-year-old country its first medal at an IIHF event.

The playoff round reverts to six teams qualifying, with group leaders getting a bye to the semifinals.

Pool A

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Slovakia	4	3	0	1	10	7	7
Canada	4	2	1	1	10	9	5
Finland	4	2	2	0	17	16	4
Czech Republic	4	1	3	0	11	12	2
United States	4	1	3	0	13	17	2

December 26, 1998

3 – 2

December 26, 1998

6 – 3

December 27, 1998

0 – 0

December 28, 1998

6 – 4

December 28, 1998

6 – 3

December 29, 1998

4 – 3

December 30, 1998

2 – 0

December 30, 1998

3 – 2

December 31, 1998

5 – 2

December 31, 1998

4 – 3

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Sweden	4	4	0	0	25	11	8
Russia	4	3	1	0	25	4	6
Kazakhstan	4	1	2	1	9	20	3
Switzerland	4	1	3	0	5	17	2
Belarus	4	0	3	1	9	21	1

December 26, 1998

4 – 2

December 26, 1998

4 – 3

December 27, 1998

2 – 2

Portage la Prairie

December 28, 1998

5 – 1

December 28, 1998

7 – 0

Portage la Prairie

December 29, 1998

10 – 0

December 30, 1998

3 – 0

December 30, 1998

5 – 4

December 31, 1998

6 – 0

December 31, 1998

11 – 4

Relegation round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Czech Republic	3	3	0	0	21	9	6
United States	3	2	1	0	15	12	4
Switzerland	3	1	2	0	12	13	2
Belarus	3	0	3	0	7	21	0

December 26, 1998

4 – 3

December 28, 1998

6 – 3

January 3, 1999

10 – 2

January 3, 1999

5 – 4

Portage la Prairie

January 4, 1999

5 – 4

January 4, 1999

7 – 2

Belarus was relegated for the 2000 World Juniors

Final round

Quarter finals

Semi finals

Final

QF1

6

A2

12

B1

1

B3

2

SF1

2

SF2

3

QF2

3

B2

3

A1

2

Third place

A3

2

QF1

4

QF2

5

Quarterfinals

January 2, 1999

12 – 2
(3–0, 5–0, 4–2)

January 2, 1999

3 – 2 ot
(1–0, 0–2, 1–0, 1-0)

Denis Arkhipov ot

Goals

Semifinals

January 4, 1999

6 – 1
(1–1, 2–0, 3–0)

January 4, 1999

3 – 2
(2–0, 1–2, 0–0)

5th place game

January 4, 1999

6 – 1
(2–1, 2–0, 2–0,)

Bronze medal game

January 5, 1999

5 – 4
(2–0, 1–3, 2–1)

Gold medal game

January 5, 1999

Russia

3 – 2 ot
(1–0, 1–1, 0–1, 1-0)

Winnipeg
Attendance: 13,225

	0-1	29:59 − Simon Gagné
Artem Chubarov − 19:07	1-1
Maxim Balmochnykh − 34:23	2-1
	2-2	53:52 − Bryan Allen
Artem Chubarov − 65:13	3-2

Final ranking

Rank	Country
	Russia
	Canada
	Slovakia
4	Sweden
5	Finland
6	Kazakhstan
7	Czech Republic
8	United States
9	Switzerland
10	Belarus

Scoring leaders

Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
Brian Gionta	United States	6	6	5	11	-1	6
Daniel Tkaczuk	Canada	7	6	4	10	+1	10
Daniel Sedin	Sweden	6	5	5	10	+6	2
Scott Gomez	United States	6	3	7	10	+2	4
Henrik Sedin	Sweden	6	3	6	9	+7	10
Tomáš Divíšek	Czech Republic	6	2	7	9	+2	6
Simon Gagné	Canada	7	7	1	8	+9	2
Christian Berglund	Sweden	6	4	4	8	+5	33
Eero Somervuori	Finland	6	4	4	8	0	2
Niklas Hagman	Finland	6	3	5	8	+3	2
Nik Antropov	Kazakhstan	6	3	5	8	–3	14

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Pos	Player	Country	TOI	GA	GAA	Sv%	SO
1	Roberto Luongo	Canada	405:13	13	1.92	94.20	2
2	Alexei Volkov	Russia	407:27	10	1.47	93.55	0
3	Mika Lehto	Finland	206:52	8	2.32	93.28	0
4	Ján Lašák	Slovakia	359:48	14	2.33	92.71	1
5	Vlastimil Lakosil	Czech Republic	358:55	18	3.01	90.77	0

TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts

Source: IIHF^[1]

Tournament awards

	IIHF Directorate Awards	Media All-Star Team
Goaltender	Roberto Luongo	Roberto Luongo
Defencemen	Vitaly Vishnevskiy	Brian Campbell Vitaly Vishnevskiy
Forwards	Maxim Afinogenov	Daniel Tkaczuk Brian Gionta Maxim Balmochnykh

Pool B

Played at Székesfehérvár and Dunaújváros, Hungary from December 27 to January 3. Two groups of four played round robins, and then the top three played each of the top three teams from the other group. All scores carried forward except the results against the lone eliminated team from each group.

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Denmark	3	2	1	0	8	7	4			4 - 3	2 - 1	2 - 3
Latvia	3	2	1	0	8	5	4		3 - 4		3 - 1	2 - 0
Germany	3	1	2	0	10	5	2		1 - 2	1 - 3		8 - 0
Hungary	3	1	2	0	3	12	2		3 - 2	0 - 2	0 - 8

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Ukraine	3	2	0	1	12	8	5			3 - 3	5 - 3	4 - 2
Poland	3	1	1	1	11	10	3		3 - 3		5 - 2	3 - 5
Norway	3	1	2	0	12	13	2		3 - 5	2 - 5		7 - 3
France	3	1	2	0	10	14	2		2 - 4	5 - 3	3 - 7

Medal round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Ukraine	5	4	0	1	26	11	9			3 - 3	7 - 3	5 - 1	6 - 1	5 - 3
Poland	5	3	0	2	17	11	8		3 - 3		2 - 2	3 - 2	4 - 2	5 - 2
Denmark	5	3	1	1	16	15	7		3 - 7	2 - 2		2 - 1	4 - 3	5 - 2
Germany	5	1	4	0	11	14	2		1 - 5	2 - 3	1 - 2		1 - 3	6 - 1
Latvia	5	1	4	0	10	17	2		1 - 6	2 - 4	3 - 4	3 - 1		1 - 2
Norway	5	1	4	0	10	22	2		3 - 5	2 - 5	2 - 5	1 - 6	2 - 1

Ukraine was promoted to Pool A for 2000.

Relegation round

3 – 1
(2–0, 1–1, 0–0)

9 – 1
(1–0, 4–1, 4–0)

Hungary lost two games to none and was relegated to Pool C for 2000.

Pool C

Played at Kaunas and Elektrenai, Lithuania from December 30 to January 3

Preliminary Round

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Japan	3	3	0	0	16	4	6			7 - 1	4 - 1	5 - 2
Austria	3	2	1	0	15	11	4		1 - 7		5 - 2	9 - 2
Lithuania	3	0	2	1	8	14	1		1 - 4	2 - 5		5 - 5
Croatia	3	0	2	1	9	19	1		2 - 5	2 - 9	5 - 5

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Italy	3	2	1	0	9	6	4			4 - 2	0 - 2	5 - 2
Slovenia	3	2	1	0	13	9	4		2 - 4		5 - 4	6 - 1
Estonia	3	1	1	1	9	8	3		2 - 0	4 - 5		3 - 3
Great Britain	3	0	2	1	6	14	1		2 - 5	1 - 6	3 - 3

Placement Games

7th place: Great Britain 3 - 1 Croatia
5th place: Estonia 4 - 3ot Lithuania
3rd place: Slovenia 6 - 2 Austria
1st Place: Italy 1 - 0 Japan

Italy was promoted to Pool B, and Croatia was relegated to Pool D for 2000.

Pool D

Played at Novi Sad, Yugoslavia from December 29 to January 4.

Group A

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Romania	2	2	0	0	30	0	4			5 - 0	25 - 0
South Africa	2	1	1	0	10	9	2		0 - 5		10 - 4
Bulgaria	2	0	2	0	4	35	0		0 - 25	4 - 10

Group B

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Netherlands	2	2	0	0	44	3	4			7 - 3	37 - 0
Mexico	2	1	1	0	31	8	2		3 - 7		28 - 1
Turkey	2	0	2	0	1	65	0		0 - 37	1 - 28

Group C

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Yugoslavia	2	2	0	0	21	2	4			6 - 1	15 - 1
Spain	2	0	1	1	6	11	1		1 - 6		5 - 5
Iceland	2	0	1	1	6	20	1		1 - 15	5 - 5

Promotion Group

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Yugoslavia	2	2	0	0	9	2	4			4 - 1	5 - 1
Netherlands	2	1	1	0	7	6	2		1 - 4		6 - 2
Romania	2	0	2	0	3	11	0		1 - 5	2 - 6

Yugoslavia was promoted to Pool C for 2000.

4th to 6th

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Spain	2	2	0	0	10	4	4			4 - 2	6 - 2
Mexico	2	1	1	0	9	5	2		2 - 4		7 - 1
South Africa	2	0	2	0	3	13	0		2 - 6	1 - 7

7th to 9th

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Bulgaria	2	2	0	0	21	2	4			9 - 2	12 - 0
Iceland	2	1	1	0	18	9	2		2 - 9		16 - 0
Turkey	2	0	2	0	0	28	0		0 - 12	0 - 16

References

↑ "Goalkeepers". IIHF.com. 14 July 2017. Archived from the original on 5 November 1999.

Podnieks, Andrew (2010). IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011. Moydart Press.
http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/U-20_1999.htm

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