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2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

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The 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Division III represents the sixth and the lowest tier of the IIHF World Junior Championship. The tournament was played in Istanbul, Turkey, from 26 January to 2 February 2023.[1][2] It consisted of one pool of eight teams separated into two preliminary round groups. The winners of this tournament, Australia, were promoted to the 2024 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division II B.

2023 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division III
Tournament details
Host country Turkey
CityIstanbul
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Dates26 January –
2 February 2023
Teams8
Tournament statistics
Games played22
Goals scored207 (9.41 per game)
Attendance5,182 (236 per game)
Scoring leader(s)Australia Dmitri Kuleshov (29 points)
Websitewww.iihf.com
← 2022
2024 →
See also: 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

To be eligible as a junior player in this tournament, a player cannot be born earlier than 2003.

Participating teams edit

Team Qualification
  Australia Placed 3rd in Division III last year.
  Israel Placed 4th in Division III last year.
  Turkey Hosts; placed 5th in Division III last year.
  Bosnia and Herzegovina Placed 6th in Division III last year.
  Kyrgyzstan Placed 7th in Division III last year.
  South Africa Placed 8th in Division III last year.
  Bulgaria Returned to World Championship for first time since 2020.
  New Zealand Returned to World Championship for first time since 2020.

Match officials edit

Five referees and ten linesmen were selected for the tournament.[3]

Referees
  •   Nicholas Air
  •   Murat Aygun
  •   Bostjan Groznik
  •   Yen-Chin Shen
  •   Chris van Grinsven
Linesmen
  •   Berkay Aslanbey
  •   Ferhat Dogus Aygun
  •   Thibo Christiaens
  •   Yunjie Cui
  •   John Dow
  •   Taha Kavlakoglu
  •   Aron Magyar
  •   Sem Ramirez
  •   Kaspars Sirins
  •   Chun Hang Wong

First round edit

Group A edit

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Australia 3 3 0 0 0 28 6 +22 9 Advance to Quarterfinals
2   Kyrgyzstan 3 2 0 0 1 11 16 −5 6
3   New Zealand 3 1 0 0 2 9 10 −1 3
4   Bosnia and Herzegovina 3 0 0 0 3 4 20 −16 0
Source: IIHF
26 January 2023
10:00		Australia  12–4
(3–1, 3–1, 6–2)		  KyrgyzstanZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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26 January 2023
17:00		Bosnia and Herzegovina  1–6
(0–2, 0–3, 1–1)		  New ZealandZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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27 January 2023
10:00		Bosnia and Herzegovina  3–4
(1–1, 1–2, 1–1)		  KyrgyzstanZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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27 January 2023
17:00		New Zealand  2–6
(0–3, 1–3, 1–0)		  AustraliaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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29 January 2023
10:00		Australia  10–0
(1–0, 6–0, 3–0)		  Bosnia and HerzegovinaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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29 January 2023
17:00		Kyrgyzstan  3–1
(1–1, 1–0, 1–0)		  New ZealandZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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Group B edit

Pos Team Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Israel 3 3 0 0 0 30 4 +26 9 Advance to Quarterfinals
2   Bulgaria 3 2 0 0 1 10 11 −1 6
3   Turkey (H) 3 1 0 0 2 15 14 +1 3
4   South Africa 3 0 0 0 3 4 30 −26 0
Source: IIHF
(H) Host
26 January 2023
13:30		Israel  16–1
(4–0, 8–1, 4–0)		  South AfricaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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26 January 2023
20:30		Turkey  3–5
(1–0, 1–2, 1–3)		  BulgariaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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27 January 2023
13:30		Bulgaria  0–8
(0–5, 0–1, 0–2)		  IsraelZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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27 January 2023
20:30		Turkey  9–3
(4–2, 1–0, 4–1)		  South AfricaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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29 January 2023
13:30		South Africa  0–5
(0–1, 0–3, 0–1)		  BulgariaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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29 January 2023
20:30		Israel  6–3
(5–0, 1–2, 0–1)		  TurkeyZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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Playoffs edit

All teams enter the Quarterfinals; Semifinals are to be re-seeded.

 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
          
 
 30 January
 
 
A1
  Australia		28
 
1 February
 
B4
  South Africa		0
 
1
  Israel		6
 
 30 January
 
5
  Turkey		4
 
B1
  Israel		10
 
2 February
 
A4
  Bosnia and Herzegovina		0
 
1
  Israel		1
 
 30 January
 
2
  Australia		4
 
A2
  Kyrgyzstan		1
 
1 February
 
B3
  Turkey		3
 
2
  Australia		4
 
 30 January
 
3
  Bulgaria		1 3rd place match
 
B2
  Bulgaria		6
 
2 February
 
A3
  New Zealand		2
 
3
  Bulgaria		8
 
 
5
  Turkey		3
 

Quarterfinals edit

January 30, 2023
10:00		Australia  28–0
(5–0, 11–0, 12–0)		  South AfricaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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January 30, 2023
13:30		Bulgaria  6–2
(3–1, 1–0, 2–1)		  New ZealandZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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January 30, 2023
17:00		Israel  10–0
(4–0, 3–0, 3–0)		  Bosnia and HerzegovinaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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January 30, 2023
20:30		Kyrgyzstan  1–3
(1–2, 0–0, 0–1)		  TurkeyZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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Semifinals edit

1 February 2023
17:00		Australia  4–1
(1–0, 1–0, 2–1)		  BulgariaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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1 February 2023
20:30		Israel  6–4
(1–1, 3–1, 2–2)		  TurkeyZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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7th place match edit

1 February 2023
13:30		Bosnia and Herzegovina  7–3
(6–0, 1–1, 0–2)		  South AfricaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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5th place match edit

2 February 2023
13:30		Kyrgyzstan  2–3
(1–0, 0–0, 1–3)		  New ZealandZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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3rd place match edit

2 February 2023
17:00		Bulgaria  8–3
(3–1, 3–2, 2–0)		  TurkeyZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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Final edit

2 February 2023
20:30		Israel  1–4
(0–0, 0–2, 1–2)		  AustraliaZeytinburnu Ice Rink, Istanbul
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Final standings edit

Rank Team
    Australia
    Israel
    Bulgaria
4   Turkey
5   New Zealand
6   Kyrgyzstan
7   Bosnia and Herzegovina
8   South Africa
Promoted to the 2024 Division II B
Relegated to the 2024 Division III B

References edit

  1. ^ 2023 World Championship Division III official website, www.iihf.com
  2. ^ 2023 World Championship Division III statistics, stats.iihf.com
  3. ^ 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division III – Competition officials

External links edit

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