2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I

International ice hockey competition IIHF World U18 Championship Division I 2003 Latvia France 22–28 March 200323–29 March 2003 12 other 2002 2004 The 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I was a pair of international under-18 ice hockey tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournaments made up the second level of competition at the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament took place between 23 and 29 March 2003 in Ventspils, Latvia and the Group B tournament took place between 22 and 28 March 2003 in Briançon, France. Denmark and Norway won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to the Championship Division for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships. While Great Britain finished last in Group A and Ukraine last in Group B and were both relegated to Division II for 2004. Group A tournament The Group A tournament began on 23 March 2003 in Ventspils, Latvia.http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/tournaments/W18IA.htm 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Div I, Group A International Ice Hockey Federation 2012-02-05 Denmark, Japan, Latvia and Slovenia all returned to compete in this year's Division I tournament after missing promotion to the Championship Division at the previous years World Championship. Great Britain gained promotion to Division I after finishing third in last years Division II tournament and Germany was relegated from the Championship Division after failing to survive the relegation round at the 2002 IIHF World U18 Championships.International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia 1904–2005 Müller Stephan 2005 Books on Demand Germany 3-8334-4189-5 308–326 Denmark won the tournament after finishing first in the group standings and gained promotion to the Championship Division for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships.http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000002.htm Final Ranking International Ice Hockey Federation 2012-02-05 Germany finished second losing only to Denmark and Slovenia finished in third place.http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Games & Standings International Ice Hockey Federation 2012-02-05 Great Britain finished in last place after losing all five of their games and were relegated back to Division II for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships. Martin Nielsen of Denmark finished as the top scorer of the tournament with eleven points including four goals and seven assists.http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/playerstat/pg000003.htm Scoring Leaders International Ice Hockey Federation 2012-02-05 Japan's Kaku Asari finished the tournament as the leading goaltender based on save percentage.http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/playerstat/pg000020.htm Leading Goaltenders (SVS%) International Ice Hockey Federation 2012-02-05 Standings main WDL PR 2 DEN DEN GER GER SLO SLO LAT LAT JPN JPN GBR GBR 4 1 0 31 12 4 0 1 34 8 3 0 2 24 27 1 2 2 14 15 1 1 3 15 19 0 0 5 8 45 green1 Promoted to the Championship Division for 2004 P red1 Relegated to Division II for 2004 R complete IIHF Fixtures All times local. 23 March 2003 13:00 DEN SLO 10 – 4 (6–2, 3–1, 1–1) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 300 23 March 2003 16:30 #eeffff LAT JPN 1 – 1 (0–1, 0–0, 1–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 1000 23 March 2003 20:00 GBR GER 0 – 13 (0–3, 0–5, 0–5) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 300 24 March 2003 13:00 #eeffff SLO JPN 7 – 2 (1–1, 5–0, 1–1) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 300 24 March 2003 16:30 GER DEN 3 – 4 (2–1, 1–2, 0–1) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 300 24 March 2003 20:00 #eeffff LAT GBR 6 – 2 (1–0, 3–0, 2–2) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 910 26 March 2003 13:00 GBR DEN 2 – 11 (1–3, 0–4, 1–4) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 300 26 March 2003 16:30 #eeffff GER JPN 4 – 1 (2–1, 2–0, 0–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 300 26 March 2003 20:00 SLO LAT 6 – 4 (0–1, 2–2, 4–1) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 1000 27 March 2003 13:00 #eeffff DEN JPN 4 – 1 (2–0, 2–1, 0–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 398 27 March 2003 16:30 SLO GBR 5 – 1 (0–0, 3–1, 2–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 300 27 March 2003 20:00 #eeffff LAT GER 1 – 4 (0–1, 1–0, 0–3) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 1000 29 March 2003 11:00 JPN GBR 10 – 3 (5–0, 1–2, 4–1) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 300 29 March 2003 14:30 #eeffff GER SLO 10 – 2 (3–0, 4–1, 3–1) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 300 29 March 2003 18:00 LAT DEN 2 – 2 (1–1, 1–1, 0–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IA/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Ventspils 1000 Scoring leaders List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals. Player GP Games played G Goals A Assists Pts Points +/- Plus/Minus PIM Penalties in minutes POS PositionDEN Martin Nielsen Martin Nielsen (ice hockey) 5 4 7 11 +6 4 FGER Kai Hospelt 5 7 3 10 +4 4 FDEN Nicolaj Nedermark 5 4 5 9 +4 4 FGER Marcus Kink 5 5 3 8 +8 6 FGER Uli Maurer 5 3 5 8 +7 22 FGER Fabio Carciola 5 4 3 7 +5 2 FDEN Jannik Hansen 5 2 5 7 +6 14 FSLO Rok Pajic 5 3 3 6 +3 14 FDEN Jakob Petersen Vorup 5 2 4 6 +4 0 FSLO Ziga Svete 5 1 5 6 +1 10 D Leading goaltenders Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Player MIP Minutes and seconds played SOG Shots on goal GA Goals against GAA Goals against average per 60 minutes SVS% Save percentage SO ShutoutsJPN Asari Kaku Asari 180:00 131 9 3.00 93.13 0DEN Sebastian Dahm 180:00 80 8 2.67 90.00 0LAT Mārtiņš Raitums 300:00 150 15 3.00 90.00 0GER Danny aus den Birken 180:00 54 6 2.00 88.89 1GBR Lawrence David Lawrence 175:12 177 24 8.22 86.44 0 Group B tournament The Group B tournament began on 22 March 2003 in Briançon, France.http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/tournaments/W18IB.htm 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Div I, Group B International Ice Hockey Federation 2012-02-05 Austria and Italy both returned to compete in this year's Division I tournament after missing promotion to the Championship Division at the previous years World Championship. France and Poland gained promotion to Division I after finishing first and second respectively in last years Division II tournament and Norway and Ukraine were relegated from the Championship Division after failing to survive the relegation round at the 2002 IIHF World U18 Championships. Norway won the tournament after finishing first in the group standings and gained promotion to the Championship Division for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships.http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000002.htm Final Ranking International Ice Hockey Federation 2012-02-05 Poland finished second after winning three of their games and drawing the fourth and Italy finished in third place.http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Games & Standings International Ice Hockey Federation 2012-02-05 Ukraine finished in last place after finishing last in the group standings and were relegated to Division II for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships. Marcin Kolusz of Poland finished as the top scorer of the tournament with seven points including four goals and three assists.http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/playerstat/pg000003.htm Scoring Leaders International Ice Hockey Federation 2012-02-05 Poland's Bartosz Stepokura finished the tournament as the leading goaltender based on save percentage.http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/playerstat/pg000020.htm Leading Goaltenders (SVS%) International Ice Hockey Federation 2012-02-05 Standings main WDL PR 2 NOR NOR POL POL ITA ITA FRA FRA AUT AUT UKR UKR 4 1 0 22 13 3 1 1 11 14 2 1 2 15 13 2 0 3 20 17 1 1 3 15 18 1 0 4 16 24 green1 Promoted to the Championship Division for 2004 P red1 Relegated to Division II for 2004 R complete IIHF Fixtures All times local. 22 March 2003 13:00 POL NOR 2 – 2 (1–1, 1–0, 0–1) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 407 22 March 2003 16:30 #eeffff ITA UKR 4 – 0 (1–0, 0–0, 3–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 462 22 March 2003 20:00 FRA AUT 6 – 4 (1–3, 3–1, 2–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 1743 22 March 2003 13:00 #eeffff NOR ITA 5 – 2 (0–0, 3–1, 2–1) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 434 23 March 2003 16:30 AUT POL 1 – 2 (0–1, 0–1, 1–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 326 23 March 2003 20:00 #eeffff UKR FRA 1 – 7 (1–1, 0–4, 0–2) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 1372 25 March 2003 13:00 POL ITA 4 – 3 (2–2, 1–0, 1–1) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 889 25 March 2003 16:30 #eeffff UKR AUT 5 – 6 (0–1, 2–3, 3–2) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 756 25 March 2003 20:00 NOR FRA 4 – 2 (2–1, 1–1, 1–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 1707 26 March 2003 13:00 #eeffff UKR POL 6 – 0 (1–0, 5–0, 0–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 417 26 March 2003 16:30 AUT NOR 3 – 4 (1–1, 1–1, 1–2) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 512 26 March 2003 20:00 #eeffff ITA FRA 5 – 3 (1–0, 2–0, 2–3) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 1728 28 March 2003 13:00 AUT ITA 1 – 1 (0–0, 1–0, 0–1) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 545 28 March 2003 16:30 #eeffff NOR UKR 7 – 4 (3–1, 3–3, 1–0) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 548 28 March 2003 20:00 FRA POL 2 – 3 (1–0, 0–0, 1–3) http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0203/W18IB/0203/scripts/standings/pg000001.htm Briançon 2003 Scoring leaders List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals. Player GP Games played G Goals A Assists Pts Points +/- Plus/Minus PIM Penalties in minutes POS PositionPOL Marcin Kolusz 5 4 3 7 +2 0 FAUT Rafael Rotter 5 3 4 7 +4 2 FUKR Vitaliy Kyrychenko 5 3 3 6 –2 4 FNOR Mathias Trygg 5 3 2 5 +2 0 FFRA Lionel Wiotte 5 3 2 5 +1 0 FNOR Lars Erik Hesbråten 5 3 2 5 +1 2 FPOL Sebastian Kowalowka 5 3 2 5 +2 4 FNOR Mathis Olimb 5 3 2 5 +1 4 FITA Claudio Mantese 5 3 2 5 +2 6 FNOR Martin Røymark 5 2 3 5 +1 0 F Leading goaltenders Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Player MIP Minutes and seconds played SOG Shots on goal GA Goals against GAA Goals against average per 60 minutes SVS% Save percentage SO ShutoutsPOL Bartosz Stepokura 267:02 153 11 2.47 92.81 0ITA Renè Baur 280:00 139 11 2.36 92.09 1NOR Mathias Gundersen 240:00 95 11 2.75 88.42 0AUT Mathias Lange 240:00 120 14 3.50 88.33 0UKR Sergiy Gavrylyuk 122:35 69 9 4.41 86.96 0 References IIHF World U18 Championship Division I World I 2003 2003 Category:IIHF World U18 Championship Division I