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1996 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
Tournament details
Host nation Flag of Austria.svg Austria
Dates 21 April – 5 May
Teams 12
Venue(s) (in 1 host city)
Champions Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic (1 title)
Tournament statistics
Games played 40
Goals scored 249  (6.23 per game)
Attendance 186,830  (4,671 per game)
Scoring leader(s) Flag of Canada Yanic Perreault 9 points

The 1996 Ice Hockey World Championship took place in Austria 21 April - 5 May. The games were played in Vienna. Thirty-six nations competed at four levels, with Slovakia making their first appearance in Group A.

Twelve teams took part in Group A, with the first round split into two groups of six, with the first four from each group advancing to the quarter-finals. This was the 60th World Championship and the Czech Republic beat Canada in the final to become World Champions for the first time. (Czechoslovakia had won the World Championship six times). The final game was tied at two apiece before Martin Procházka scored with nineteen seconds left, an empty net goal sealed the victory.[1] In the bronze medal game, Brian Rolston scored at 4:48 of overtime to win the first medal in 34 years for team USA.[2][3] The unfortunate Russians did not lose a game in regulation time in the entire tournament, but finished fourth.

World Championship Group A (Austria)[]

First Round[]

Group 1[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Goal difference Points
1 Flag of Russia.svg Russia 5 5 0 0 23 - 08 10
2 Flag of the United States.svg United States 5 3 0 2 15 - 14 6
3 Flag of Canada.svg Canada 5 2 1 2 17 - 15 5
4 Flag of Germany.svg Germany 5 2 0 3 12 - 11 4
5 Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia 5 1 1 3 13 - 16 3
6 Flag of Austria.svg Austria 5 1 0 4 03 - 19 2
21 April Germany Flag of Germany.svg 1-2
Flag of Russia.svg Russia
21 April Canada Flag of Canada.svg 3-3
Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
22 April Austria Flag of Austria.svg 1-5
Flag of the United States.svg United States
22 April Russia Flag of Russia.svg 6-2
Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
23 April United States Flag of the United States.svg 4-2
Flag of Germany.svg Germany
23 April Austria Flag of Austria.svg 0-4
Flag of Canada.svg Canada
24 April Germany Flag of Germany.svg 5-1
Flag of Canada.svg Canada
25 April Austria Flag of Austria.svg 2-1
Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
25 April United States Flag of the United States.svg 1-3
Flag of Russia.svg Russia
26 April Austria Flag of Austria.svg 0-3
Flag of Germany.svg Germany
26 April Russia Flag of Russia.svg 6-4
Flag of Canada.svg Canada
27 April United States Flag of the United States.svg 4-3
Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
28 April Austria Flag of Austria.svg 0-6
Flag of Russia.svg Russia
28 April Canada Flag of Canada.svg 5-1
Flag of the United States.svg United States
29 April Slovakia Flag of Slovakia.svg 4-1
Flag of Germany.svg Germany

Group 2[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Goal difference Points
1 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 5 4 1 0 27 - 12 9
2 Flag of Finland.svg Finland 5 2 2 1 23 - 15 6
3 Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 5 2 2 1 14 - 12 6
4 Flag of Italy.svg Italy 5 2 1 2 20 - 26 5
5 Flag of Norway.svg Norway 5 1 2 2 06 - 11 4
6 Flag of France.svg France 5 0 0 5 12 - 26 0
21 April Czech Republic Flag of the Czech Republic.svg 3-1
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
21 April Finland Flag of Finland.svg 1-1
Flag of Norway.svg Norway
22 April France Flag of France.svg 5-6
Flag of Italy.svg Italy
23 April Italy Flag of Italy.svg 4-0
Flag of Norway.svg Norway
23 April Finland Flag of Finland.svg 2-4
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
24 April Sweden Flag of Sweden.svg 2-1
Flag of France.svg France
24 April Norway Flag of Norway.svg 2-2
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
25 April France Flag of France.svg 3-6
Flag of Finland.svg Finland
25 April Sweden Flag of Sweden.svg 3-3
Flag of Italy.svg Italy
26 April Italy Flag of Italy.svg 2-9
Flag of Finland.svg Finland
27 April Czech Republic Flag of the Czech Republic.svg 9-2
Flag of France.svg France
27 April Sweden Flag of Sweden.svg 3-0
Flag of Norway.svg Norway
28 April Italy Flag of Italy.svg 5-9
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
28 April Finland Flag of Finland.svg 5-5
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
29 April Norway Flag of Norway.svg 3-1
Flag of France.svg France

Quarterfinals[]

30 April United States Flag of the United States.svg 3-2
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
30 April Finland Flag of Finland.svg 1-3
Flag of Canada.svg Canada
1 May Russia Flag of Russia.svg 5-2
Flag of Italy.svg Italy
1 May Czech Republic Flag of the Czech Republic.svg 6-1
Flag of Germany.svg Germany

Consolation Round 11-12 Place[]

1 May Austria Flag of Austria.svg 3-6
Flag of France.svg France
2 May Austria Flag of Austria.svg 3-6
Flag of France.svg France

Austria was relegated to Group B.

Semifinals[]

3 May United States Flag of the United States.svg 0-5
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
3 May Canada Flag of Canada.svg 3-2 (GWS)
Flag of Russia.svg Russia

Match for third place[]

4 May Russia Flag of Russia.svg 3-4 (OT)
Flag of the United States.svg United States

Final[]

5 May
15:00
Czech Republic Flag of the Czech Republic.svg 4-2
(1-1, 1-1, 2-0)
Flag of Canada.svg Canada Wiener Stadthalle, Wien
Attendance: 9,500

World Championship Group B (Netherlands)[]

Played 10–20 April in Eindhoven. Latvia won at this level for the first time. In their final game, superb goaltending by Arturs Irbe kept them in it, and a late tying goal by Olegs Znaroks sealed the tournament victory.[3] The final game had high drama for the host crowd, the Japanese and Danish teams among them. If the Netherlands were to lose to Poland, they would finish last and be relegated, a tie and Japan would be last, a win and Denmark would be last. A third period goal by Poland sealed Japan's fate.

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Goal difference Points Tie breaker
H2H Points
13 Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia 7 6 1 0 41 - 16 13
14 Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland 7 5 1 1 37 - 13 11
15 Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus 7 5 0 2 29 - 18 10
16 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain 7 4 1 2 29 - 23 9
17 Flag of Poland.svg Poland 7 1 2 4 18 - 27 4
18 Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark 7 1 1 5 14 - 32 3 3
19 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 7 1 1 5 12 - 35 3 2
20 Flag of Japan.svg Japan 7 0 3 4 14 - 30 3 1

Latvia was promoted to Group A while Japan was relegated to Group C.

10 April Latvia Flag of Latvia.svg 6-5
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
10 April Poland Flag of Poland.svg 3-3
Flag of Japan.svg Japan
10 April Netherlands Flag of the Netherlands.svg 0-3
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
10 April Switzerland Flag of Switzerland.svg 2-4
Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus
11 April Japan Flag of Japan.svg 1-6
Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia
11 April Great Britain Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 2-7
Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland
12 April Denmark Flag of Denmark.svg 3-4
Flag of Poland.svg Poland
12 April Netherlands Flag of the Netherlands.svg 2-3
Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus
13 April Latvia Flag of Latvia.svg 5-3
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
13 April Switzerland Flag of Switzerland.svg 7-2
Flag of Japan.svg Japan
13 April Great Britain Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 4-2
Flag of Poland.svg Poland
14 April Netherlands Flag of the Netherlands.svg 2-6
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
14 April Latvia Flag of Latvia.svg 4-1
Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus
15 April Denmark Flag of Denmark.svg 1-10
Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland
15 April Poland Flag of Poland.svg 3-6
Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus
15 April Japan Flag of Japan.svg 1-2
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
16 April Latvia Flag of Latvia.svg 4-2
Flag of Poland.svg Poland
16 April Japan Flag of Japan.svg 3-3
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
17 April Belarus Flag of Belarus.svg 6-1
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
17 April Switzerland Flag of Switzerland.svg 5-1
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
18 April Poland Flag of Poland.svg 2-5
Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland
18 April Netherlands Flag of the Netherlands.svg 3-15
Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia
19 April Belarus Flag of Belarus.svg 7-2
Flag of Japan.svg Japan
19 April Great Britain Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 5-1
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
20 April Belarus Flag of Belarus.svg 2-4
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
20 April Denmark Flag of Denmark.svg 2-2
Flag of Japan.svg Japan
20 April Switzerland Flag of Switzerland.svg 1-1
Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia
20 April Poland Flag of Poland.svg 2-2
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands

World Championship Group C (Slovenia)[]

Played 22–31 March in Jesenice and Kranj. For the fourth year in row the Kazakhs and Ukrainians met in Group C. For the first time the Kazakhs came out on top, and it was the difference in winning the tournament.

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Goal difference Points
21 Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan 7 6 0 1 51 - 10 12
22 Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine 7 6 0 1 40 - 13 12
23 Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia 7 5 0 2 41 - 19 10
24 Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary 7 3 1 3 34 - 25 7
25 Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia 7 3 1 3 36 - 29 7
26 Flag of Romania.svg Romania 7 3 0 4 32 - 27 6
27 Flag of China.svg China 7 1 0 6 17 - 68 2
28 Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia 7 0 0 7 11 - 71 0

Kazakhstan was promoted to Group B while Croatia was relegated to Group D.

22 March Romania Flag of Romania.svg 9-2
Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia
22 March Estonia Flag of Estonia.svg 13-2
Flag of China.svg China
22 March Ukraine Flag of Ukraine.svg 4-1
Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary
22 March Slovenia Flag of Slovenia.svg 2-4
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan
23 March Hungary Flag of Hungary.svg 2-7
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan
23 March Slovenia Flag of Slovenia.svg 4-1
Flag of Romania.svg Romania
23 March China Flag of China.svg 2-7
Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine
23 March Estonia Flag of Estonia.svg 10-2
Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia
25 March Slovenia Flag of Slovenia.svg 6-3
Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia
25 March Ukraine Flag of Ukraine.svg 11-1
Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia
25 March Romania Flag of Romania.svg 3-5
Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary
25 March Kazakhstan Flag of Kazakhstan.svg 15-0
Flag of China.svg China
26 March China Flag of China.svg 3-11
Flag of Romania.svg Romania
26 March Kazakhstan Flag of Kazakhstan.svg 12-0
Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia
26 March Hungary Flag of Hungary.svg 5-5
Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia
26 March Slovenia Flag of Slovenia.svg 2-4
Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine
28 March Romania Flag of Romania.svg 2-3
Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia
28 March Croatia Flag of Croatia.svg 4-6
Flag of China.svg China
28 March Kazakhstan Flag of Kazakhstan.svg 3-2
Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine
28 March Slovenia Flag of Slovenia.svg 4-3
Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary
29 March Ukraine Flag of Ukraine.svg 7-2
Flag of Romania.svg Romania
29 March Croatia Flag of Croatia.svg 0-10
Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary
29 March Estonia Flag of Estonia.svg 0-7
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan
29 March Slovenia Flag of Slovenia.svg 10-2
Flag of China.svg China
31 March Ukraine Flag of Ukraine.svg 5-2
Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia
31 March Slovenia Flag of Slovenia.svg 13-2
Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia
31 March Romania Flag of Romania.svg 4-3
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan
31 March China Flag of China.svg 2-8
Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary

World Championship Group D (Lithuania)[]

Played in Kaunas and Elektrenai 25–31 March. To narrow the field of the bottom tier to eight nations, two regional qualifying tournaments were used.

Qualifying Round[]

Group 1 (Australia)[]

Played 5th and 6 November 1995 in Sydney.

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Goal difference Points
1 Flag of Australia.svg Australia 2 2 0 0 12 - 02 4
2 Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand 2 0 0 2 02 - 12 0
5 November 1995 Australia Flag of Australia.svg 6-0
Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand
6 November 1995 Australia Flag of Australia.svg 6-2
Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand

Group 2 (Israel)[]

Played 27–29 January 1996 in Metulla. The Greek team won both their games, but were found to have an ineligible roster, so both games were declared 5–0 forfeits in favour of the opposing team.[3]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1 Flag of Israel.svg Israel 2 2 0 0 24 - 00 4
2 Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 2 1 0 1 05 - 19 2
3 Flag of Greece.svg Greece 2 0 0 2 00 - 10 0
27 January 1996 Israel Flag of Israel.svg 1-4
5-0 by default

Flag of Greece.svg Greece
28 January 1996 Turkey Flag of Turkey.svg 0-19
5-0 by default

Flag of Greece.svg Greece
29 January 1996 Israel Flag of Israel.svg 19-0
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey

First Round[]

Group 1[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Goal difference Points
1 Flag of FR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia 3 3 0 0 14 - 05 6
2 Flag of Spain.svg Spain 3 1 1 1 15 - 06 3
3 Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea 3 1 1 1 15 - 10 3
4 Flag of Australia.svg Australia 3 0 0 3 08 - 31 0
25 March Yugoslavia Flag of FR Yugoslavia.svg 7-1
Flag of Australia.svg Australia
25 March Spain Flag of Spain.svg 1-1
Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
26 March Spain Flag of Spain.svg 11-1
Flag of Australia.svg Australia
26 March Yugoslavia Flag of FR Yugoslavia.svg 3-1
Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
27 March South Korea Flag of South Korea.svg 13-6
Flag of Australia.svg Australia
27 March Yugoslavia Flag of FR Yugoslavia.svg 4-3
Flag of Spain.svg Spain

Group 2[]

Ironically, the Israeli team that had qualified for the tournament because of the Greek forfeits, had to forfeit its first two games because they used two Russian players who did not have the proper clearance to play.[3]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Goal difference Points
1 Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania 3 3 0 0 19 - 02 6
2 Flag of Belgium.svg Belgium 3 2 0 1 10 - 13 4
3 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 3 1 0 2 07 - 06 2
4 Flag of Israel.svg Israel 3 0 0 3 00 - 15 0
25 March Bulgaria Flag of Bulgaria.svg 5-0
forfeit

Flag of Israel.svg Israel
25 March Lithuania Flag of Lithuania.svg 11-2
Flag of Belgium.svg Belgium
26 March Belgium Flag of Belgium.svg 3-2
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria
26 March Lithuania Flag of Lithuania.svg 5-0
forfeit

Flag of Israel.svg Israel
27 March Belgium Flag of Belgium.svg 5-0
Flag of Israel.svg Israel
27 March Lithuania Flag of Lithuania.svg 3-0
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria

Final Round 29-32 Place[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Goal difference Points
29 Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania 3 3 0 0 25 - 04 6
30 Flag of FR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia 3 2 0 1 10 - 08 4
31 Flag of Spain.svg Spain 3 1 0 2 10 - 16 2
32 Flag of Belgium.svg Belgium 3 0 0 3 05 - 22 0

Host Lithuania won all five games to earn promotion to Group C.

29 March Yugoslavia Flag of FR Yugoslavia.svg 5-2
Flag of Belgium.svg Belgium
29 March Lithuania Flag of Lithuania.svg 11-1
Flag of Spain.svg Spain
31 March Spain Flag of Spain.svg 6-1
Flag of Belgium.svg Belgium
31 March Lithuania Flag of Lithuania.svg 3-1
Flag of FR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia

Consolation Round 33-36 Place[]

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Goal difference Points
33 Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea 3 2 1 0 22 - 13 5
34 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 3 2 0 1 14 - 10 4
35 Flag of Israel.svg Israel 3 1 1 1 10 - 10 3
36 Flag of Australia.svg Australia 3 0 0 3 12 - 25 0
28 March Bulgaria Flag of Bulgaria.svg 5-4
Flag of Australia.svg Australia
28 March Israel Flag of Israel.svg 3-3
Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
30 March Israel Flag of Israel.svg 7-2
Flag of Australia.svg Australia
30 March South Korea Flag of South Korea.svg 6-4
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria

Ranking and statistics[]

 


 1996 IIHF World Championship Winners 
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg
Czech Republic
1st title

Final standings[]

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:

Gold medal icon Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
Silver medal icon Flag of Canada.svg Canada
Bronze medal icon Flag of the United States.svg United States
4 Flag of Russia.svg Russia
5 Flag of Finland.svg Finland
6 Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
7 Flag of Italy.svg Italy
8 Flag of Germany.svg Germany
9 Flag of Norway.svg Norway
10 Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
11 Flag of France.svg France
12 Flag of Austria.svg Austria

Citations[]

  1. Duplacey page 508
  2. Podnieks page 160
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Summary at Passionhockey.com

References[]

  • Complete results
  • Duplacey, James (1998). Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Total Sports, 498–528. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9. 
  • Podnieks, Andrew (2010). IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011. Moydart Press, 159–60. 


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