2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II

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2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II
Tournament details
Host countries Estonia
 Serbia and Montenegro
Dates5 – 11 March 2003
17 – 23 March 2003
Teams12
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The 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II was a pair of international under-18 ice hockey tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division II tournaments made up the third level of competition at the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament took place between 17 and 23 March 2003 in Tallinn, Estonia and the Group B tournament took place between 5 and 11 March 2003 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro (renamed from FR Yugoslavia in February 2003). South Korea and Romania won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to Division I for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships. While Bulgaria finished last in Group A and South Africa last in Group B and were both relegated to Division III for 2004.

Group A tournament[edit]

The Group A tournament began on 17 March 2003 in Tallinn, Estonia.[1] Both Croatia and Estonia who missed promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championship returned to compete in this year's Division II tournament.[2] Belgium, Bulgaria, South Korea and Spain all gained promotion to Division II from Division III following a restructure of the Division sizes which increased the number of teams in each group from four to six.[2] South Korea won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion to Division I for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships.[3] Estonia finished second losing only to South Korea and Croatia finished in third place.[4] Bulgaria finished in last place after losing all five of their games and were relegated back to Division III for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships.[3] Tomislav Grozaj of Croatia finished as the top scorer of the tournament with 27 points including 18 goals and nine assists.[5] Thomas Tyson of Belgium finished the tournament as the leading goaltender based on save percentage.[6]

Standings[edit]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1  South Korea 5 5 0 0 56 12 +44 10 Promoted to Division I for 2004
2  Estonia 5 4 0 1 49 8 +41 8
3  Croatia 5 2 1 2 38 20 +18 5
4  Belgium 5 2 1 2 20 32 −12 5
5  Spain 5 1 0 4 23 36 −13 2
6  Bulgaria 5 0 0 5 2 80 −78 0 Relegated to Division III for 2004
Source: [citation needed]

Fixtures[edit]

All times local.

17 March 2003
12:30		Belgium 1 – 13
(0–6, 1–3, 0–4)		 South KoreaTallinn
Attendance: 300
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17 March 2003
16:00		Spain 4 – 9
(1–5, 1–4, 2–0)		 CroatiaTallinn
Attendance: 300
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17 March 2003
19:30		Bulgaria 0 – 17
(0–6, 0–3, 0–8)		 EstoniaTallinn
Attendance: 800
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18 March 2003
12:30		Croatia 4 – 4
(1–0, 3–2, 0–2)		 BelgiumTallinn
Attendance: 300
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18 March 2003
16:00		South Korea 18 – 0
(5–0, 8–0, 5–0)		 BulgariaTallinn
Attendance: 320
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18 March 2003
19:30		Estonia 12 – 0
(2–0, 6–0, 4–0)		 SpainTallinn
Attendance: 793
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20 March 2003
12:30		Bulgaria 1 – 15
(1–5, 0–4, 0–6)		 SpainTallinn
Attendance: 300
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20 March 2003
16:00		Croatia 4 – 9
(0–4, 1–1, 3–4)		 South KoreaTallinn
Attendance: 300
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20 March 2003
19:30		Estonia 11 – 0
(3–0, 4–0, 4–0)		 BelgiumTallinn
Attendance: 699
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21 March 2003
12:30		Croatia 20 – 0
(4–0, 5–0, 11–0)		 BulgariaTallinn
Attendance: 300
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21 March 2003
16:00		Spain 3 – 5
(2–1, 1–4, 0–0)		 BelgiumTallinn
Attendance: 300
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21 March 2003
19:30		South Korea 7 – 6
(2–3, 2–1, 3–2)		 EstoniaTallinn
Attendance: 1402
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23 March 2003
12:30		South Korea 9 – 1
(4–1, 4–0, 1–0)		 SpainTallinn
Attendance: 300
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23 March 2003
16:00		Belgium 10 – 1
(1–0, 3–0, 6–1)		 BulgariaTallinn
Attendance: 300
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23 March 2003
19:30		Estonia 3 – 1
(2–0, 0–1, 1–0)		 CroatiaTallinn
Attendance: 781
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Scoring leaders[edit]

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.[5]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Croatia Tomislav Grozaj 5 18 9 27 +18 6 F
South Korea Kim Ki-Sung 5 9 9 18 +18 0 F
South Korea Park Woo-Sang 5 11 6 17 +16 0 F
South Korea Kwon Tae-An 5 9 8 17 +17 10 F
Estonia Aleksandr Kuznetsov 5 10 6 16 +14 0 F
Croatia Miro Smerdelj 5 2 11 13 +17 8 F
Croatia David Iveziq 5 6 6 12 +14 0 F
South Korea Lee Seung-Jun 5 3 9 12 +16 4 F
Croatia Kresimir Radovic 5 1 11 12 +13 12 D
South Korea Chang Jun-Il 5 9 2 11 +15 4 F

Leading goaltenders[edit]

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.[6]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Belgium Thomas Tyson 135:05 105 15 6.66 85.71 0
Estonia Valentin Itsenko 180:00 46 7 2.33 84.78 2
Croatia Sinisa Blagus 185:31 84 13 4.20 84.52 1
South Korea Kim Yu-Jin 182:19 50 9 2.96 82.00 0
Belgium Kevin van Looveren 164:55 87 17 6.18 80.46 0

Group B tournament[edit]

The Group B tournament began on 5 March 2003 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.[7] Hungary, Netherlands and Romania all returned to compete in the Division II tournament after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championship.[2] Lithuania, South Africa and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia all gained promotion to Division II from Division III following a restructure of the Division sizes which increased the number of teams in each group from four to six.[2] Romania won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion to Division I for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships.[8] Hungary finished second after winning three games and drawing a fourth and the Netherlands finished in third place.[9] South Africa finished in last place after losing all five of their games and were relegated back to Division III for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships.[8] The tournament was also the last appearance of the Federal Republic Yugoslavia's under-18 team as the country was reconstituted as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Yugoslavia men's under-18 team was replaced the following year by the Serbia and Montenegro men's national under-18 ice hockey team.[2] Tivadar Petres of Romania finished as the top scorer of the tournament with 17 points including 11 goals and six assists.[10] Hungary's Dominik Vinnai finished the tournament as the leading goaltender based on save percentage.[11]

Standings[edit]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1  Romania 5 5 0 0 33 10 +23 10 Promoted to Division I for 2004
2  Hungary 5 3 1 1 27 12 +15 7
3  Netherlands 5 3 0 2 22 17 +5 6
4  Yugoslavia 5 2 1 2 14 19 −5 5
5  Lithuania 5 1 0 4 15 29 −14 2
6  South Africa 5 0 0 5 9 33 −24 0 Relegated to Division III for 2004
Source: [citation needed]

Fixtures[edit]

All times local.

5 March 2003
13:00		South Africa 1 – 7
(0–3, 0–1, 1–3)		 RomaniaBelgrade
Attendance: 300
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5 March 2003
16:15		Lithuania 0 – 5
(0–2, 0–3, 0–0)		 NetherlandsBelgrade
Attendance: 300
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5 March 2003
19:30		Yugoslavia 2 – 2
(2–2, 0–0, 0–0)		 HungaryBelgrade
Attendance: 1500
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6 March 2003
13:00		Hungary 8 – 0
(1–0, 3–0, 4–0)		 South AfricaBelgrade
Attendance: 300
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6 March 2003
16:15		Romania 5 – 2
(1–0, 3–2, 1–0)		 LithuaniaBelgrade
Attendance: 300
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6 March 2003
19:30		Netherlands 5 – 2
(2–0, 2–2, 1–0)		 YugoslaviaBelgrade
Attendance: 1000
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8 March 2003
13:00		Hungary 1 – 6
(1–1, 0–4, 0–1)		 RomaniaBelgrade
Attendance: 300
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8 March 2003
16:15		Netherlands 8 – 3
(2–1, 2–0, 4–2)		 South AfricaBelgrade
Attendance: 300
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8 March 2003
19:30		Lithuania 3 – 4
(0–2, 2–0, 1–2)		 YugoslaviaBelgrade
Attendance: 1200
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9 March 2003
13:00		Romania 7 – 4
(3–2, 2–1, 2–1)		 NetherlandsBelgrade
Attendance: 300
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9 March 2003
16:15		Hungary 11 – 4
(3–1, 2–2, 6–1)		 LithuaniaBelgrade
Attendance: 300
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9 March 2003
19:30		Yugoslavia 4 – 1
(0–1, 1–0, 3–0)		 South AfricaBelgrade
Attendance: 1000
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11 March 2003
13:00		South Africa 4 – 6
(1–4, 2–1, 1–1)		 LithuaniaBelgrade
Attendance: 300
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11 March 2003
16:15		Netherlands 0 – 5
(0–1, 0–1, 0–3)		 HungaryBelgrade
Attendance: 300
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11 March 2003
19:30		Romania 8 – 2
(2–1, 4–1, 2–0)		 YugoslaviaBelgrade
Attendance: 1600
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Scoring leaders[edit]

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.[10]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Romania Tivadar Petres 5 11 6 17 +14 4 F
Romania Ede Mihaly 5 8 7 15 +11 0 F
Netherlands Hubertus Verdonschot 5 5 6 11 +1 6 F
Romania Mihail Georgescu 5 7 3 10 +3 18 F
Hungary Istvan Marko 5 4 4 8 +5 2 F
Hungary Patrik Szajbert 5 4 4 8 +7 6 F
Netherlands Mark Donders 5 4 4 8 0 6 F
Lithuania Marius Lelenas 5 4 2 6 -3 12 F
Hungary Viktor Papp 5 3 3 6 +5 8 F
Netherlands Bart van Roosmalen 5 3 3 6 +5 24 F

Leading goaltenders[edit]

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.[11]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Hungary Dominik Vinnai 209:16 81 5 1.43 93.83 2
Romania Bogdan Popa 240:00 101 8 2.00 92.08 0
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milan Lukovic 194:30 105 10 3.08 90.48 0
Netherlands Victor Boutrs Girgis 240:00 124 14 3.50 88.71 1
Lithuania Lukas Jaksys 269:18 196 24 5.35 87.76 0

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Div II Group A". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  2. ^ a b c d e Müller, Stephan (2005). International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia 1904–2005. Germany: Books on Demand. pp. 308–326. ISBN 3-8334-4189-5.
  3. ^ a b "Final Ranking". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  4. ^ "Games & Standings". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  5. ^ a b "Scoring Leaders". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  6. ^ a b "Leading Goaltenders (SVS%)". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  7. ^ "2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Div II Group B". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  8. ^ a b "Final Ranking". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  9. ^ "Games & Standings". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  10. ^ a b "Scoring Leaders". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  11. ^ a b "Leading Goaltenders (SVS%)". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
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