1986 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Explained

Tourney Name:IIHF World U20 Championship
Year:1986
Size:200px
Country:Canada
Dates:December 26, 1985 – January 4, 1986
Num Teams:8
Cities:15
Venues:15
Type:ihj
Winners:Soviet Union
Count:7
Second:Canada
Third:United States
Fourth:Czechoslovakia
Games:28
Goals:246
Attendance:154172
Scoring Leader: Shayne Corson
Points:14
Prevseason:1985
Nextseason:1987

The 1986 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1986 WJHC) was the tenth edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held from December 26, 1985, until January 4, 1986. It was held mainly in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The Soviet Union won the gold medal, its seventh championship, Canada won silver and the United States won bronze. The bronze was the first medal for the Americans in the tournament's history.

Final standings

The 1986 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 1987.

Results

Scoring leaders

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1 7 7 14
2 4 10 14
3 7 6 13
4 7 5 12
4 7 5 12
4 7 5 12
7 6 5 11
8 5 5 10
8 5 5 10
8 5 5 10

Tournament awards

Media All-Star Team
Goaltender Yevgeni Belosheikin
Defencemen Sylvain Côté
Mikhail Tatarinov
Forwards Michal Pivoňka
Shayne Corson
Igor Vyazmikin

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Klagenfurt Austria from March 13 to 22. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

StandingsPoland was promoted to Pool A and Bulgaria was relegated to Pool C for 1987.

Pool C

This tournament was played in Gap, France, from March 21 to 27. China made its debut in the junior tournament.

StandingsFrance was promoted to Pool B for 1987.

References