IIHF European Junior Championships

The IIHF European Junior Championships were held from 1968 to 1998, with an unofficial tournament being held in 1967[1]. The tournament was played as a U19 tournament from 1968-1976. In 1977, the IIHF created the IIHF World Junior Championships, and the U19 championships became U18. The tournament was dominated by the Russians, Czechs, Swedes and Finns, winning all but two of the medals in the thirty-one years it was held.

The U18 Championships remained strong until 1999, when the new IIHF World U18 Championships were introduced, thus rendering the U18 European Championships redundant. Two European Divisions continued until 2000, but were tiered qualifiers, alongside Asian Divisions, with promotion and relegation to the World Group B.

Contents

Champions

U19

Year Gold Silver Bronze Host
1967 (unofficial) Soviet Union Finland Sweden Soviet Union
1968 Czechoslovakia Soviet Union Sweden Finland
1969 Soviet Union Sweden Czechoslovakia West Germany
1970 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Sweden Switzerland
1971 Soviet Union Sweden Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
1972 Sweden Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Sweden
1973 Soviet Union Sweden Czechoslovakia Soviet Union
1974 Sweden Soviet Union Finland Switzerland
1975 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Sweden France
1976 Soviet Union Sweden Finland Czechoslovakia

U18

Year Gold Silver Bronze Host
1977 Sweden Czechoslovakia Soviet Union West Germany
1978 Finland Soviet Union Sweden Finland
1979 Czechoslovakia Finland Soviet Union Poland
1980 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Sweden Czechoslovakia
1981 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Sweden Soviet Union
1982 Sweden Czechoslovakia Soviet Union Sweden
1983 Soviet Union Finland Czechoslovakia Norway
1984 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Sweden West Germany
1985 Sweden Soviet Union Czechoslovakia France
1986 Finland Sweden Czechoslovakia West Germany
1987 Sweden Czechoslovakia Soviet Union Finland
1988 Czechoslovakia Finland Soviet Union Czechoslovakia
1989 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Finland Soviet Union
1990 Sweden Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Sweden
1991 Czechoslovakia Soviet Union Finland Czechoslovakia
1992 Czechoslovakia Sweden Russia Norway
1993 Sweden Russia Czech Republic Poland
1994 Sweden Russia Czech Republic Finland
1995 Finland Germany Sweden Germany
1996 Russia Finland Sweden Russia
1997 Finland Sweden Switzerland Czech Republic
1998 Sweden Finland Russia Sweden

Medal Table

Country Gold Silver Bronze Medals
 Russia
 Soviet Union
 		 1
11
12		 2
7
9		 2
5
7		 5
23
28
 Sweden 10 7 9 26
 Czech Republic
 Czechoslovakia
 		 0
5
5		 0
9
9		 2
8
10		 2
22
24
 Finland 4 5 4 13
 Germany 0 1 0 1
 Switzerland 0 0 1 1

European Division I(Qualifier for World Group B)

Year Gold Silver Bronze Host
1999 Latvia Slovenia Lithuania Romania
2000 Kazakhstan Estonia Slovenia Slovenia

References

  1. ^ Dupalcey page 528

See also

IIHF European Junior Championships

Unofficial Championships: 1967

U19 Championships: 1968 · 1969 · 1970 · 1971 1972  · 1973 · 1974  · 1975  · 1976
U18 Championships: 1977 · 1978 · 1979 · 1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000