2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I

The 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and took place between 7 and 13 June 2009 in Ingolstadt, Germany at the Saturn Arena and Saturn Rink 2. The tournament was won by Austria who upon winning gained promotion to the 2010 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While South Africa and Chinese Taipei were relegated to the continental qualifications after losing their relegation round games.

2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I
Tournament details
Host country Germany
Dates7–13 June 2009
Teams8
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Austria (1st title)
Runner-up  Great Britain
Third place  Brazil
Fourth place Hungary
Tournament statistics
Matches played24
Goals scored249 (10.38 per match)
Attendance4,288 (179 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Martin Grabher-Meier
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Qualification

Three teams attempted to qualify for the two remaining spots in the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. The other six nations automatically qualified based on their results from the 2008 Championship and 2008 Division I tournaments. Chinese Taipei qualified as the Asian-Oceanian qualifier.[1] South Africa qualified after defeating Namibia on aggregate in a best-of-two qualification series.[1] The games were held on 24 and 30 August 2008 in Namibia and South Africa with South Africa winning the first 3–2 and tying the second 1–1.[1]

Seeding and groups

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I, and the qualification tournaments.[4] Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Ingolstadt, Germany.[4] The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parenthesis is the corresponding seeding):[4]

Preliminary round

Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top two teams advance to the Qualifying round where they face-off against the two last-placed teams of the Groups A and B from the Top Division tournament for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs.[4] Teams finishing second through to fourth advance to the Playoff round.

     Advance to Qualifying round
     Advance to Playoff round

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group C
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Austria33000346+289
 Australia311012314+95
 Japan31011131304
 Chinese Taipei30003845–370
7 June 2009
13:00		Australia 5 – 4 (SO)
(1–1, 1–2, 1–1, 1–0, 0–0, 1–0)		 JapanSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 350
7 June 2009
17:00		Chinese Taipei 5 – 19
(1–5, 1–6, 2–5, 1–3)		 AustriaSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 390
8 June 2009
14:00		Australia 18 – 3
(3–0, 7–1, 4–2, 4–0)		 Chinese TaipeiSaturn Arena
Attendance: 65
8 June 2009
17:00		Austria 8 – 1
(2–1, 0–0, 4–0, 2–0)		 JapanSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 150
9 June 2009
13:00		Japan 8 – 0
(1–0, 3–0, 2–0, 2–0)		 Chinese TaipeiSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 135
9 June 2009
17:00		Austria 7 – 0
(1–0, 3–0, 1–0, 2–0)		 AustraliaSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 225

Group D
Team GP W OTW OTL L GF GA DIF PTS
 Brazil33000169+79
 Great Britain320011710+76
 Hungary310021918+13
 South Africa30003621–150
7 June 2009
15:00		Brazil 6 – 4
(2–0, 1–1, 0–3, 3–0)		 HungarySaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 400
7 June 2009
19:00		South Africa 1 – 5
(0–3, 0–0, 1–1, 0–1)		 Great BritainSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 63
8 June 2009
15:00		Brazil 5 – 3
(3–1, 1–1, 1–1, 0–0)		 South AfricaSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 102
8 June 2009
19:00		Great Britain 10 – 4
(2–1, 3–0, 1–3, 4–0)		 HungarySaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 123
9 June 2009
15:00		Hungary 11 – 2
(4–1, 2–0, 2–1, 3–0)		 South AfricaSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 85
9 June 2009
19:00		Great Britain 2 – 5
(0–0, 0–1, 1–0, 1–4)		 BrazilSaturn Rink 2

Qualifying round

Austria and Brazil advanced to the qualifying round after finishing first in Group C and Group D respectively.[5] Austria faced off against Canada, who finished last in Group A of the Top Division tournament, and Brazil was drawn against Slovakia, who finished last in Group B of the Top Division tournament, for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs.[6][7] Both Austria and Brazil lost their matches and advanced to the Division I playoffs, while Canada and Slovakia advanced to the Top Division playoffs.[7]

All times are local (UTC+2).

10 June 2009
16:00		Canada 4 – 3
(3–0, 0–1, 1–1, 0–1)		 AustriaSaturn Arena
Attendance: 238
10 June 2009
18:00		Slovakia 6 – 3
(1–0, 2–1, 1–1, 2–1)		 BrazilSaturn Arena
Attendance: 265

Playoff round

Austria and Brazil advanced to the playoff round after losing their qualifying round matches. They were seeded alongside the six other teams of the tournament based on their results in the preliminary round. The four winning quarterfinalists advanced to the semifinals while the losing teams moved on to the relegation round.[8] In the relegation round Chinese Taipei and South Africa lost their games to Australia and Japan respectively and were relegated to the continental qualifications.[8] In the semifinals Great Britain defeated Brazil and Austria beat Hungary, both advancing to the gold medal game.[8] After losing the semifinals Brazil and Hungary played off for the bronze medal with Brazil winning 4–3.[8] Austria defeated Great Britain 2–1 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2010 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.[8]

  Quarterfinals Semifinals
                           
  D1  Brazil 10  
C4  Chinese Taipei 0  
  QF1  Brazil 3  
  QF2  Great Britain 5  
D2  Great Britain 5 Final
  C3  Japan 2  
    SF1  Great Britain 1
  SF2  Austria 2
  C1  Austria 8  
D4  South Africa 2  
  QF3  Austria 9 Bronze medal game
  QF4  Hungary 1  
C2  Australia 4 SF1  Brazil 4
  D3  Hungary 5   SF2  Hungary 3

All times are local (UTC+2).

Quarterfinals
11 June 2009
13:00		Australia 4 – 5
(0–0, 1–0, 1–2, 2–3)		 HungarySaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 189
11 June 2009
15:00		Great Britain 5 – 2
(0–0, 2–0, 0–1, 3–1)		 JapanSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 193
11 June 2009
17:00		Austria 8 – 2
(2–0, 4–0, 0–2, 2–0)		 South AfricaSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 211
11 June 2009
19:00		Brazil 10 – 0
(0–0, 5–0, 4–0, 1–0)		 Chinese TaipeiSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 123

Relegation round
12 June 2009
13:00		Japan 9 – 2
(3–1, 3–0, 3–0, 0–1)		 South AfricaSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 65
12 June 2009
15:00		Australia 15 – 7
(5–1, 4–0, 3–1, 3–5)		 Chinese TaipeiSaturn Rink 2

Semifinals
12 June 2009
17:00		Brazil 3 – 5
(0–1, 0–2, 2–1, 1–1)		 Great BritainSaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 175
12 June 2009
19:00		Austria 9 – 1
(4–0, 2–0, 2–0, 1–1)		 HungarySaturn Rink 2
Attendance: 123

Bronze medal game
13 June 2009
12:00		Brazil 4 – 3
(0–2, 2–0, 1–1, 1–0)		 HungarySaturn Arena
Attendance: 118

Gold medal game
13 June 2009
14:00		Austria 2 – 1
(0–0, 2–0, 0–0, 0–1)		 Great BritainSaturn Arena
Attendance: 500

Ranking and statistics

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:[9]

Rk. Team
 Austria
 Great Britain
 Brazil
4. Hungary
5. Australia
6. Japan
7. Chinese Taipei
8. South Africa

Scoring leaders
Austria's Raphael Herburger scored six goals and eight assists in his six games

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the Division I statistics.[10]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Martin Grabher-Meier671118+171.5F
Harry Lange651217+150.0F
Peter Matus551015+116.0F
Raphael Herburger66814+131.5F
Mario Altmann66713+111.5D
Alexander Feichtner68412+111.5F
Sean Jones57512+101.5F
Szilard Sandor64812+96.0F
Diego Araujo63912+91.5D
Mark Brunnegger68311+103.0D
Philip Hamer67411+106.0F
Gergely Borbas64711+84.5F
Christian Dolezal53811+103.0F
Youssef Riener611011+100.0D

Leading goaltenders
Bernhard Starkbaum of Austria finished as the leading goaltender with a save percentage of 96.70

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the Division I statistics.[11]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Bernhard Starkbaum192:009130.5696.701
James Tanner216:00117122.0089.740
Shingo Imagawa161:0089112.4687.640
Thiago Arauja216:0093142.3384.950
Attila Szoke199:50153244.3284.310

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