2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

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2019 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division III

Tournament details
Host country	Iceland
Dates	14–20 January 2019
Teams	8
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	165 (8.25 per match)
Attendance	3,155 (158 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	(20 points)
← 2018 2020 →

The 2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III consisted of eight teams split into two groups of four. The team that won the Division was promoted to Division II B for 2020. It was held from 14 to 20 January 2019.

To be eligible as a junior, a player cannot be born earlier than 1999. Bulgarian forward became the all-time leading scorer in Division III play with 42 points.

Participants[]

Team	Qualification
Turkey	placed 6th in Division IIB last year and were relegated
China	placed 2nd in Division III last year
Bulgaria	placed 3rd in Division III last year
Iceland	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 (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	5–8th place semifinals
4	Chinese Taipei	3	0	0	0	3	3	11	−8	0

14 January 2019 17:00

Iceland

5–4 OT (2–1, 1–1, 1–2) (OT: 1–0)

Australia

, Reykjavik Attendance: 532

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Fraser Lawrence Linesmen: Kevin Briganti Gil Haim Tichon
	(, ) (PP,EA) – 10:21 1–0 1–1 11:01 – (, ) (SH) (Maack) (PP) – 15:48 2–1 (, G. Arason) (PP) – 22:05 3–1 3–2 35:48 – Wang () 3–3 40:30 – Vasquez () (PP) 3–4 50:45 – Wardlaw () (, Orongan) – 51:53 4–4 Orongan (Kristveigarson, ) – 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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 27

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Zsolt Csomortani Linesmen: Óli Gunnarsson Andreas Kroyer
	(PP) – 13:32 1–0 Taygar – 14:23 2–0 Taygar () – 19:44 3–0 () (PP) – 30:20 4–0 4–1 58:58 – ()
	6 min	Penalties	14 min
	54	Shots	18

15 January 2019 17:00

Iceland

4–0 (0–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Chinese Taipei

, Reykjavik Attendance: 350

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Cemal Ersin Kaya Linesmen: Karolis Janušauskas Nicholas Verbruggen
	() – 24:27 1–0 (Grant) – 35:20 2–0 Grant (G. Arason) – 42:18 3–0 – 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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 58

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Christoffer Hurtik Linesmen: Sindri Gunnarson Daniel Sparer
	() (PP) – 13:29 1–0 1–1 35:22 – (PP) 1–2 37:47 – – 40:23 2–2 2–3 43:32 – Vasquez (, McGuiness) – 45:55 3–3 (Hayashi) – 47:25 4–3 – 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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 38

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Zsolt Csomortani Linesmen: Karolis Janušauskas Nicholas Verbruggen
	0–1 04:10 – (, ) 0–2 35:08 – (, ) () (PP) – 46:07 1–2 1–3 51:04 – McGuiness (Manwarring) Cheung (, ) – 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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 400

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Adam Kika Linesmen: Oscar Perez Daniel Sparer
	(PP) – 07:48 1–0 1–1 10:42 – () H. Salt – 23:15 2–1 2–2 24:35 – Kristveigarson (, ) (SH) () (PP) – 46:31 3–2 (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	5–8th place semifinals
4	New Zealand	3	0	0	0	3	1	22	−21	0

14 January 2019 10:00

Bulgaria

10–1 (2–0, 4–1, 4–0)

South Africa

, Reykjavik Attendance: 53

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Cemal Kaya Linesmen: Sindri Gunnarsson Nicholas Verbruggen
	() (SH) – 01:37 1–0 (, ) (PP) – 14:37 2–0 2–1 23:09 – () (SH) (, ) (PP) – 25:44 3–1 () (PP) – 35:17 4–1 () (PP) – 36:51 5–1 (, ) – 37:00 6–1 (, ) – 47:32 7–1 () (PP) – 52:48 8–1 – 56:01 9–1 () – 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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 196

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Christoffer Hurtik Linesmen: James Ions Daniel Sparer
	(, ) – 00:13 1–0 () (EA) – 09:29 2–0 () – 21:38 3–0 (Wang J.) – 23:22 4–0 Yan J. (Guo, Zhang D.) (SH) – 31:14 5–0 () – 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 – (, ) 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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 33

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Wong Chun Linesmen: Kevin Briganti Oscar Perez
	() (PP) – 03:40 1–0 () – 11:59 2–0 (Vasilev) (PP) – 19:03 3–0 (Vasilev) -28:35 4–0 Vasilev (PP) – 38:44 5–0 Penchev (Vasilev, ) – 43:04 6–0 Dikov () – 51:08 7–0 Vachkov () – 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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 45

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Adam Kika Linesmen: Óli Gunnarsson Gil Haim Tichon
	0–1 01:44 – (, ) (PP) 0–2 04:07 – Si (Yan J., ) (PP) 0–3 06:01 – Yan J. (, Zhang D.) 0–4 09:05 – Guo (Yan J., Zhang D.) (PP) 0–5 09:19 – () 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 – (Yan J., Yan R.) 0–11 38:47 – Wang J. 0–12 47:45 – Li (, Si) () (PP) – 51:07 1–12 1–13 54:15 – Huang (Wang J.) 1–14 59:14 – (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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 42

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Wong Chun Linesmen: Kevin Briganti James Ions
	0–1 49:32 – ()
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	25	Shots	31

17 January 2019 20:30

China

6–1 (1–0, 2–1, 3–0)

Bulgaria

, Reykjavik Attendance: 143

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

Placement round[]

Bracket[]

	5–8th 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

5–8th place semifinals[]

19 January 2019 10:00

Iceland

11–1 (6–0, 3–0, 2–1)

New Zealand

, Reykjavik Attendance: 258

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Fraser Lawrence Linesmen: James Ions Oscar Perez
	(, ) – 00:17 1–0 () (PP) – 10:29 2–0 (, ) – 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 (, G. Arason) (PP) – 24:05 8–0 Kristveigarson (Orongan, Thorsteinsson) (PP) – 36:22 9–0 (Orongan, ) – 53:27 10–0 Kristveigarson (Orongan, Atlason) (PP) – 54:25 11–0 11–1 56:28 – ()
	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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 42

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Cemal Kaya Linesmen: Kevin Briganti Sindri Gunnarsson
	0–1 01:29 – (, ) 0–2 04:19 – (Fu, ) (PP) 0–3 06:35 – (Sang) 0–4 20:47 – Sang (, ) 0–5 25:44 – Lin K. (Cheung) (PP) () – 39:38 1–5 1–6 42:54 – Fu 1–7 44:40 – (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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 43

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Adam Kika Linesmen: Karolis Janusauskas Andreas Kroyer
	0–1 02:13 – () – 02:50 1–1 – 10:59 2–1 Schuurman (Phakathi) (PP) – 12:15 3–1 3–2 34:07 – 3–3 37:12 – Boul () () – 50:20 4–3 Meyer (Delport, ) – 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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 295

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Wong Chung Linesmen: James Ions Gil Tichon
	(, ) – 00:40 1–0 () – 18:13 2–0 2–1 19:00 – () () (PP) – 21:39 3–1 Grant () (PP) – 29:02 4–1 4–2 36:48 – (Chen K., ) (PP) 4–3 53:21 – Chen K. () Orongan () (ENG) – 59:08 5–3
	10 min	Penalties	16 min
	71	Shots	21

Playoff round[]

Bracket[]

Semifinals

1A

Australia

7

2B

Bulgaria

4

Gold medal

1A

Australia

1

Semifinals

1B

China

5

1B

China

12

2A

Turkey

1

Bronze medal

2B

Bulgaria

0

2A

Turkey

6

Semifinals[]

19 January 2019 17:00

Australia

7–4 (2–1, 1–2, 4–1)

Bulgaria

, Reykjavik Attendance: 75

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Adam Kika Linesmen: Andreas Kroyer Daniel Sparer
	() (PP) – 07:17 1–0 1–1 10:02 – (, ) (PP) – 11:10 2–1 Brunt (, Sillato) – 25:13 3–1 3–2 27:20 – () 3–3 28:19 – Manwarring (Vasquez, McGuiness) – 44:15 4–3 4–4 49:51 – T. Abdi (, Vasilev) (PP) Sillato (PP) – 56:59 5–4 Manwarring (Vasquez, Brunt) (PP,ENG) – 58:15 6–4 (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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 100

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Christoffer Hurtik Linesmen: Oli Gunnarsson Karolis Janusauskas
	(, ) (PP) – 11:51 1–0 1–1 19:24 – () (PP) (, ) – 30:17 2–1 (, Zhang D.) – 32:31 3–1 Yan R. (, 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 (, 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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 69

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Christoffer Hurtik Linesmen: Oli Gunnarsson Daniel Sparer
	0–1 14:19 – (, ) (PP) 0–2 15:09 – Bingol (, Demirezen) 0–3 34:24 – (, Taygar) 0–4 38:03 – Bingöl (Taygar) (SH) 0–5 41:04 – Bingöl (Taygar) 0–6 59:02 – Bingöl (Taygar, ) (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

, Reykjavik Attendance: 356

Game reference
		Goalies		Referee: Fraser Lawrence Linesmen: Kevin Briganti Nicholas Verbruggen
	(, ) – 06:21 1–0 () – 06:54 2–0 Guo () (PP) – 22:09 3–0 Huang – 42:32 4–0 Huang () (PP) – 50:08 5–0 5–1 55:03 – (SH)
	41 min	Penalties	36 min
	50	Shots	20

Final ranking[]

Promoted to 2020 IIHF U20 Division II B

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

Statistics[]

Top 10 scorers[]

Pos	Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
1		China	5	7	13	20	+19	0
2		China	5	11	8	19	+17	32
3		China	5	5	10	15	+16	0
4		China	5	1	14	15	+19	0
5		China	5	7	7	14	+15	2
6		Iceland	5	5	8	13	+6	14
7		Iceland	5	8	4	12	+6	0
8		Bulgaria	4	3	9	12	+4	38
9		Australia	5	4	5	9	+3	4
10		Turkey	5	3	6	9	+1	2

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = 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		China	240:00	4	93.94	1.00	0
2		Chinese Taipei	283:23	16	93.73	3.39	0
3		Iceland	179:00	7	89.86	2.34	1
4		Bulgaria	283:32	17	89.76	3.60	0
5		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:
• Defenceman:
• Forward:

External links[]

• IIHF.com