1989 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host nation
United States
Dates
December 26 - January 4
Teams
8
Venue(s)
2 (in 1 host city)
Champions
Soviet Union (8 titles)
Tournament statistics
Games played
28
Goals scored
254 (9.07 per game)
Scoring leader(s)
Jeremy Roenick (16 points)
The 1989 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1989 WJHC ) was the 13th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Anchorage, Alaska, United States . The Soviet Union won the gold medal, its eleventh, and ultimately final, championship. Sweden won silver, and Czechoslovakia the bronze.
Final standings [ ]
The 1989 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.
West Germany was relegated to Pool B for 1990 .
Results [ ]
Qualification for Pool B [ ]
Because Denmark had used an ineligible player in last year's Pool C , a special challenge was played with Italy (who had come second). The games were played in Canazei , Italy .[ 1]
Pool B [ ]
Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Chamonix , France from March 19 to 28. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.
Standings
Rank
Team
GP
W
L
T
GF
GA
PTS
1
Poland
7
7
0
0
49
20
14
9 - 1
13 - 4
7 - 2
6 - 5
5 - 3
4 - 2
5 - 3
2
Switzerland
7
6
1
0
45
19
12
1 - 9
2 - 0
9 - 5
13 - 1
3 - 1
8 - 1
9 - 2
3
Romania
7
4
3
0
32
31
8
4 - 13
0 - 2
5 - 1
2 - 5
6 - 3
9 - 5
6 - 2
4
Japan
7
4
3
0
32
34
8
2 - 7
5 - 9
1 - 5
8 - 4
6 - 2
5 - 4
5 - 3
5
Yugoslavia
7
4
3
0
42
40
8
5 - 6
1 - 13
5 - 2
4 - 8
6 - 3
11 - 3
10 - 5
6
France
7
1
5
1
23
31
3
3 - 5
1 - 3
3 - 6
2 - 6
3 - 6
4 - 4
7 - 1
7
Denmark
7
1
5
1
25
42
3
2 - 4
1 - 8
5 - 9
4 - 5
3 - 11
4 - 4
6 - 1
8
Netherlands
7
0
7
0
17
48
0
3 - 5
2 - 9
2 - 6
3 - 5
5 - 10
1 - 7
1 - 6
Poland was promoted to Pool A and the Netherlands was relegated to Pool C for 1990 .
Pool C [ ]
This five team tournament was a round robin played in Basingstoke , Great Britain from March 16 to 22.
Standings
Rank
Team
GP
W
L
T
GF
GA
PTS
1
Austria
4
3
0
1
21
14
7
2 - 2
7 - 5
5 - 2
7 - 5
2
Italy
4
2
0
2
22
14
6
2 - 2
7 - 4
6 - 6
7 - 2
3
North Korea
4
2
2
0
17
20
4
5 - 7
4 - 7
5 - 4
3 - 2
4
Great Britain
4
0
2
2
15
19
2
2 - 5
6 - 6
4 - 5
3 - 3
5
Bulgaria
4
0
3
1
12
20
1
5 - 7
2 - 7
2 - 3
3 - 3
Austria was promoted to Pool B for 1990 .
References [ ]