1986 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1986 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Canada
Dates December 26 – January 4
Teams 8
Venue(s) 15 (in 15 host cities)
Final positions
Champions   Soviet Union (7th title)
Runner-up   Canada
Third place   United States
Fourth place  Czechoslovakia
Tournament statistics
Matches played 28
Goals scored 246 (8.79 per match)
Attendance 154,172 (5,506 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Canada Shayne Corson
(14 points)
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1987 →

The 1986 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1986 WJHC) was the tenth edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships 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 medal was the first for the Americans in tournament history.

Final standings

The 1986 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
1st, gold medalist(s) Soviet Union 7700421414
2nd, silver medalist(s) Canada 7520542110
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  United States 743035268
4 Czechoslovakia 743030208
5 Sweden 743026238
6 Finland 734031236
7  Switzerland 716019542
8 West Germany 70709650

West Germany was relegated to Pool B for 1987.

Results

December 26, 1985Canada 12 – 1  SwitzerlandHamilton
December 26, 1985Soviet Union 7 – 3 United StatesLondon
December 26, 1985Sweden 2 – 0 FinlandOrillia
December 26, 1985Czechoslovakia 9 – 3 West GermanyNewmarket
December 27, 1985Canada 18 – 2 West GermanyKitchener
December 27, 1985Finland 9 – 2  SwitzerlandSt. Catharines
December 27, 1985Soviet Union 6 – 1 SwedenOshawa
December 27, 1985United States 5 – 2 CzechoslovakiaHamilton
December 29, 1985Canada 5 – 2 United StatesHamilton
December 29, 1985Soviet Union 7 – 3  SwitzerlandGuelph
December 29, 1985Sweden 3 – 2 CzechoslovakiaStratford
December 29, 1985Finland 7 – 2 West GermanyToronto
December 30, 1985Canada 9 – 2 SwedenHamilton
December 30, 1985Czechoslovakia 7 – 2  SwitzerlandDundas
December 30, 1985Soviet Union 10 – 0 West GermanyKitchener
December 30, 1985Finland 7 – 5 United StatesOshawa
January 1, 1986Canada 6 – 5 FinlandToronto
January 1, 1986Soviet Union 4 – 3 CzechoslovakiaLondon
January 1, 1986United States 4 – 1 West GermanyHamilton
January 1, 1986Sweden 7 – 1  SwitzerlandOakville
January 2, 1986Soviet Union 4 – 1 CanadaHamilton
January 2, 1986Czechoslovakia 2 – 0 FinlandBrantford
January 2, 1986Sweden 10 – 0 West GermanyHalton Hills
January 2, 1986United States 11 – 3  SwitzerlandNiagara Falls
January 4, 1986Czechoslovakia 5 – 3 CanadaHamilton
January 4, 1986United States 5 – 1 SwedenHamilton
January 4, 1986Switzerland  7 – 1 West GermanyBrantford
January 4, 1986Soviet Union 4 – 3 FinlandHamilton

Scoring leaders

Rank Player Country G A Pts
1 Shayne Corson  Canada 7 7 14
2 Joe Murphy  Canada 4 10 14
3 Valeri Kamensky  Soviet Union 7 6 13
4 Joe Nieuwendyk  Canada 7 5 12
4 Jim Sandlak  Canada 7 5 12
4 Radek Ťoupal  Czechoslovakia 7 5 12
7 Stephen Leach  United States 6 5 11
8 Jiří Kučera  Czechoslovakia 5 5 10
8 Michal Pivoňka  Czechoslovakia 5 5 10
8 Igor Vyazmikin  Soviet Union 5 5 10

Tournament awards

IIHF Directorate Awards Media All-Star Team
Goaltender Soviet Union Yevgeni Belosheikin Soviet Union Yevgeni Belosheikin
Defencemen Soviet Union Mikhail Tatarinov Canada Sylvain Côté
Soviet Union Mikhail Tatarinov
Forwards Canada Jim Sandlak Czechoslovakia Michal Pivoňka
Canada Shayne Corson
Soviet Union 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.

Standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS Poland Norway Austria Romania Japan Netherlands Italy Bulgaria
1 Poland 7610461712 4 - 312 - 14 - 23 - 08 - 99 - 26 -0
2 Norway 75115418113 - 4 10 - 64 - 48 - 012 - 04 - 313 - 1
3 Austria 75204235101 - 126 - 10 4 - 36 - 58 - 09 - 38 - 2
4 Romania 7322322882 - 44 - 43 - 4 7 - 56 - 54 - 46 - 2
5 Japan 7340353160 - 30 - 85 - 65 - 7 6 - 57 - 212 - 0
6 Netherlands 7340304369 - 80 - 120 - 85 - 65 - 6 4 - 27 - 1
7 Italy 7151264032 - 93 - 43 - 94 - 42 - 72 - 4 10 - 3
8 Bulgaria 707096200 - 61 - 132 - 82 - 60 - 121 - 73 - 10

Poland 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.

Standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS France Denmark United Kingdom China Hungary Belgium
1 France 540152139 4 - 414 - 211 - 410 - 213 - 1
2 Denmark 5302291684 - 4 10 - 44 - 27 - 24 - 4
3 Great Britain 5320203262 - 144 - 10 6 - 44 - 24 - 2
4 China 5230232744 - 112 - 44 - 6 6 - 47 - 2
5 Hungary 5140163222 - 102 - 72 - 44 - 6 6 - 5
6 Belgium 5041143411 - 134 - 42 - 42 - 75 - 6

France was promoted to Pool B for 1987.

References

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