1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1985 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Finland
Dates	December 23 - January 1
Teams	8
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Canada (2nd title)
Runner-up	Czechoslovakia
Third place	Soviet Union
Fourth place	Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	234 (8.36 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Esa Keskinen (20 points)
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The 1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1985 WJHC) was the ninth edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held mainly in Turku and Helsinki, Finland. Canada won the gold medal, its second championship, Czechoslovakia silver and the Soviet Union bronze.

Final standings

The 1985 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
01 !	Canada	7	5	0	2	44	14	12
02 !	Czechoslovakia	7	5	0	2	32	13	12
03 !	Soviet Union	7	5	2	0	38	17	10
4	Finland	7	4	1	2	42	20	10
5	Sweden	7	3	4	0	32	26	6
6	United States	7	2	5	0	23	37	4
7	West Germany	7	0	6	1	9	44	1
8	Poland	7	0	6	1	10	59	1

Poland was relegated to Pool B for 1986.

Results

December 23, 1984

8 – 2

December 23, 1984

10 – 0

December 23, 1984

9 – 0

December 23, 1984

9 – 1

December 25, 1984

12 – 1

December 25, 1984

12 – 1

December 25, 1984

4 – 3

December 25, 1984

7 – 4

December 26, 1984

6 – 0

December 26, 1984

6 – 2

December 26, 1984

5 – 3

December 26, 1984

4 – 2

December 28, 1984

7 – 5

December 28, 1984

5 – 1

December 28, 1984

7 – 3

December 28, 1984

11 – 2

December 29, 1984

5 – 0

December 29, 1984

11 – 0

December 29, 1984

1 – 1

December 29, 1984

2 – 1

December 31, 1984

4 – 4

December 31, 1984

5 – 1

December 31, 1984

3 – 1

December 31, 1984

6 – 2

January 1, 1985

2 – 2

January 1, 1985

3 – 3

January 1, 1985

6 – 5

January 1, 1985

7 – 3

Leading scorers

	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Esa Keskinen		6	14	20
Brian Bradley		9	5	14
Esa Tikkanen		7	7	14
Peter Andersson		4	10	14
Mikko Mäkelä		11	2	13

Tournament all-stars

Goaltender Timo Lehkonen
Defence Bobby Dollas
Defence Mikhail Tatarinov
Forward Mikko Mäkelä
Forward Michal Pivonka
Forward Esa Tikkanen

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Sapporo Japan from March 15 to 24. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
1	Switzerland	7	7	0	0	58	22	14			5 - 4	5 - 3	20 - 7	6 - 1	7 - 1	8 - 6	7 -0
2	Netherlands	7	5	1	1	47	14	11		4 - 5		4 - 4	8 - 1	5 - 1	7 - 1	7 - 1	12 - 1
3	Japan	7	4	2	1	34	23	9		3 - 5	4 - 4		10 - 3	3 - 1	5 - 2	3 - 5	6 - 3
4	Austria	7	3	3	1	30	53	7		7 - 20	1 - 8	3 - 10		5 - 5	3 - 2	7 - 6	4 - 2
5	Norway	7	2	4	1	23	28	5		1 - 6	1 - 5	1 - 3	5 - 5		1 - 2	7 - 1	7 - 6
6	Italy	7	2	5	0	14	28	4		1 - 7	1 - 7	2 - 5	2 - 3	2 - 1		5 - 3	1 - 2
7	Romania	7	1	5	1	27	42	3		6 - 8	1 - 7	5 - 3	6 - 7	1 - 7	3 - 5		5 - 5
8	France	7	1	5	1	19	42	3		0 - 7	1 - 12	3 - 6	2 - 4	6 - 7	2 - 1	5 - 5

Switzerland was promoted to Pool A and France was relegated to Pool C for 1986.

Pool C

This tournament took place in Belgium from February 22 to 27.

Standings

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
1	Bulgaria	5	5	0	0	28	17	10			3 - 2	11 - 9	5 - 1	4 - 1	5 - 4
2	Hungary	5	4	1	0	35	12	8		2 - 3		6 - 1	10 - 2	11 - 2	6 - 4
3	Belgium	5	2	2	1	32	27	5		9 - 11	1 - 6		5 - 5	11 - 1	6 - 4
4	Denmark ^[A]	5	2	2	1	20	24	5		1 - 5	2 - 10	5 - 5		8 - 1	4 - 3
5	Great Britain	5	1	4	0	10	37	2		1 - 4	2 - 11	1 - 11	1 - 8		5 - 3
6	Spain	5	0	5	0	18	26	0		4 - 5	4 - 6	4 - 6	3 - 4	3 - 5

Bulgaria was promoted to Pool B for 1986.

^ A. While Total Hockey lists Denmark in their standings, passionhockey.com states that this was a Netherlands team that does not count in the standings.

References

Podnieks, Andrew (1998). Red, White, and Gold: Canada at the World Junior Championships 1974–1999. ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-382-8.
1985 World Junior Hockey Championships at TSN
Results at Passionhockey.com
Duplacey, James (1998). Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Total Sports. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9.

IIHF World U20 Championships

Current champions (2016): Finland

2017 Championship teams	Canada Czech Republic Denmark Finland Latvia Russia Slovakia Sweden Switzerland United States

Championships	Soviet Union 1974 Canada 1975 Finland 1976 Czechoslovakia 1977 Canada 1978 Sweden 1979 Finland 1980 West Germany 1981 United States 1982 Soviet Union 1983 Sweden 1984 Finland 1985 Canada 1986 Czechoslovakia 1987 Soviet Union 1988 United States 1989 Finland 1990 Canada 1991 Germany 1992 Sweden 1993 Czech Republic 1994 Canada 1995 United States 1996 Switzerland 1997 Finland 1998 Canada 1999 Sweden 2000 Russia 2001 Czech Republic 2002 Canada 2003 Finland 2004 United States 2005 Canada 2006 Sweden 2007 Czech Republic 2008 Canada 2009 Canada 2010 United States 2011 Canada 2012 Russia 2013 Sweden 2014 Canada 2015 Finland 2016 Canada 2017 United States 2018 Canada 2019 Czech Republic 2020 Canada 2021

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