| Tourney Name: | IIHF World U18 Championship Division II |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Country: | Estonia |
| Country2: | Serbia and Montenegro |
| Dates: | 5 – 11 March 2003 17 – 23 March 2003 |
| Num Teams: | 12 |
| Type: | other |
| Prevseason: | 2002 |
| Nextseason: | 2004 |
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.
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]
All times local.
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.[5]
| Player | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 18 | 9 | 27 | +18 | 6 | F | ||
| 5 | 9 | 9 | 18 | +18 | 0 | F | ||
| 5 | 11 | 6 | 17 | +16 | 0 | F | ||
| 5 | 9 | 8 | 17 | +17 | 10 | F | ||
 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 16 | +14 | 0 | F | |
| 5 | 2 | 11 | 13 | +17 | 8 | F | ||
| 5 | 6 | 6 | 12 | +14 | 0 | F | ||
| 5 | 3 | 9 | 12 | +16 | 4 | F | ||
| 5 | 1 | 11 | 12 | +13 | 12 | D | ||
 Chang Jun-Il | 5 | 9 | 2 | 11 | +15 | 4 | F |
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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 135:05 | 105 | 15 | 6.66 | 85.71 | 0 | |
| | 180:00 | 46 | 7 | 2.33 | 84.78 | 2 | |
| 185:31 | 84 | 13 | 4.20 | 84.52 | 1 | ||
| Kim Yu-Jin | 182:19 | 50 | 9 | 2.96 | 82.00 | 0 | |
| | 164:55 | 87 | 17 | 6.18 | 80.46 | 0 |
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]
All times local.
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.[10]
| Player | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 17 | +14 | 4 | F | |
| | 5 | 8 | 7 | 15 | +11 | 0 | F | |
| 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | +1 | 6 | F | ||
| | 5 | 7 | 3 | 10 | +3 | 18 | F | |
 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | +5 | 2 | F | |
| | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | +7 | 6 | F | |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 6 | F | ||
 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -3 | 12 | F | |
| | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | +5 | 8 | F | |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | +5 | 24 | F |
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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 209:16 | 81 | 5 | 1.43 | 93.83 | 2 | |
| 240:00 | 101 | 8 | 2.00 | 92.08 | 0 | ||
| 194:30 | 105 | 10 | 3.08 | 90.48 | 0 | ||
| 240:00 | 124 | 14 | 3.50 | 88.71 | 1 | ||
| | 269:18 | 196 | 24 | 5.35 | 87.76 | 0 |