2013 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I explained

Type:iih
Year:2013
Size:155px
Country:Germany
Dates:2 June – 8 June
Num Teams:8
Venues:2
Cities:1
Winners:Great Britain
Second:Austria
Third:Hungary
Games:22
Goals:215
Attendance:1100
Scoring Leader: Philip Hamer
Prevseason:2012
Nextseason:2014

The 2013 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside the 2013 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and took place between 2 and 8 June 2013 in Dresden, Germany. The tournament was won by Great Britain who upon winning gained promotion to the 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While Bulgaria and Argentina were relegated after finishing last and second last respectively.

Qualification

Six teams attempted to qualify for the two remaining spots in the 2013 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. The other six nations automatically qualified after their results from the 2012 World Championship and the 2012 Division I tournaments. Two qualification tournaments were held with a place awarded to the winner of each tournament. The European Qualification tournament was contested between Bulgaria, Latvia, Macedonia and Turkey, with Bulgaria winning promotion and returning to Division I after being relegated last year.[1] The Rest of the World Qualification tournament was contested between Argentina and Brazil, with Argentina winning promotion.[2] In addition to the Rest of the World tournament, Argentina B, Colombia, Uruguay and Venezuela joined Argentina and Brazil in a South American invitational tournament.[2]

European Qualification

The European Qualification tournament was held at the Winter Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria from 3 August 2012 to 5 August 2012.[1] Bulgaria gained promotion to Division I after winning all of their games and finishing first in the standings.[1] Latvia finished in second place after winning two of their games and losing the third against Bulgaria in overtime.[1]

All times are local.

Rest of the World Qualification

The Rest of the World Qualification tournament was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 13 and 14 December 2012.[2] Argentina gained promotion to Division I after winning both of their games against Brazil.[2]

All times are local.

South American invitational tournament

Following the Rest of the World tournament Argentina hosted a South American invitational tournament in Buenos Aires.[2] Argentina B, Colombia, Uruguay and Venezuela joined Argentina and Brazil for the tournament.[2] Brazil won the competition after defeating Colombia 5–3 in the final and Argentina beat Argentina B to finish third.[2]

Preliminary round

5th placement

Semifinals

3rd placement

1st placement

Seeding and groups

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2012 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship and 2012 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I.[5] Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2013 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Dresden, Germany.[5] The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parentheses is the corresponding seeding):

Group C

Group D

Preliminary round

Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, every team advanced to the Playoff round.

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group D

Playoff round

All eight teams advanced into the playoff round and were seeded into the quarterfinals according to their result in the preliminary round. The winning quarterfinalists advanced through to the semifinals, while the losing teams moved through to the placement round. Bulgaria and Argentina were relegated after losing their placement round games, while Croatia finished fifth after defeating Bulgaria and Japan finished sixth following their win over Argentina. In the semifinals Great Britain defeated Australia and Austria beat Hungary, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Australia and Hungary played off for the bronze medal with Hungary winning 7–5. Great Britain defeated Austria 5–1 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2014 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.[6]

All times are local (UTC+2).

Gold medal game

Ranking and statistics

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:[7]

Rk.Team
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Tournament Awards

Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown.[9]

Player
6 8 9 17 +9 0.0 F
6 7 9 16 +9 1.5 F
5 7 8 15 +13 1.5 D
6 7 8 15 +15 1.5 F
6 5 10 15 +8 3.0 D
6 5 9 14 +10 7.5 F
6 5 8 13 +9 0.0 D
6 5 8 13 +12 1.5 D
6 6 6 12 +5 4.5 F
5 9 2 11 +1 0.0 F

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.[10]

Player
196:55 105 8 1.46 92.38 0
120:00 60 5 1.50 91.67 0
168:00 79 7 1.50 91.14 0
245:00 132 15 2.20 88.64 0
153:44 73 12 2.81 83.56 0

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2012/2013 IIHF European InLine Hockey Qualification Tournament . International Ice Hockey Federation . 2014-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141110170339/http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/championships/inline/qualification-2012-europe/ . 2014-11-10 . live .
  2. Web site: 2012/2013 IIHF Rest of the World InLine Hockey Qualification Tournament . International Ice Hockey Federation . 2014-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141110170705/http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/championships/inline/qualification-2012-restoftheworld/ . 2014-11-10 . live .
  3. Web site: Tournament Progress . International Ice Hockey Federation . 2012-06-07 . 2014-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140219093233/http://stats.iihf.com/hydra/inline/146/IHM146Z007_76B_6_0.pdf . 2014-02-19 . live .
  4. Web site: 2012 IIHF In-Line World Championship Group A+B . International Ice Hockey Federation . 2014-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141229094719/http://www.iihf.com/channels1112/inline/top-division/ . 2014-12-29 . live .
  5. Web site: IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship . International Ice Hockey Federation . 2014-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131016094021/http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/championships/inline.html . 2013-10-16 . live .
  6. Web site: 2013 IIHF In-Line World Championship Div I Group C+D . International Ice Hockey Federation . 2014-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141229124337/http://www.iihf.com/channels1213/inline/division-i/ . 2014-12-29 . live .
  7. Web site: Tournament Progress . International Ice Hockey Federation . 2013-06-08 . 2014-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140219092357/http://stats.iihf.com/hydra/inline/151/IHM151Z007_76B_2_0.pdf . 2014-02-19 . live .
  8. Web site: Best Players Selected by the Directorate . International Ice Hockey Federation . 2013-06-08 . 2014-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140219092334/http://stats.iihf.com/hydra/inline/151/IHM151000_85I_1_0.pdf . 2014-02-19 . live .
  9. Web site: Scoring Leaders . International Ice Hockey Federation . 2013-06-08 . 2014-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140219092555/http://stats.iihf.com/hydra/inline/151/IHM151Z07_85B_1_0.pdf . 2014-02-19 . live .
  10. Web site: Goalkeepers . International Ice Hockey Federation . 2013-06-08 . 2014-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140219092619/http://stats.iihf.com/hydra/inline/151/IHM151Z07_85A_1_0.pdf . 2014-02-19 . live .