2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

2020 IIHF U20 World Championship
Division III
Tournament details
Host country	Bulgaria
Dates	13–19 January 2020
Teams	8
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Iceland
Runner-up	Australia
Third place	Turkey
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	134 (6.7 per match)
Attendance	5,276 (264 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Axel Orongan; (16 points)
	← 2019 2021 →

The 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III consists of two groups of four teams each: the top 2 teams from each division played in the semifinals in a four-team bracket for a chance to play for promotion to Division II B, while the bottom 2 teams in each group played in placement rounds for 5th to 8th place. The Division III tournament was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 13 – 19 January 2020.[1] Iceland won the tournament.[2]

To be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player cannot be born earlier than 2000.

Participants

Team	Qualification
Mexico	placed 6th in Division II B last year and were relegated
Australia	placed 2nd in Division III last year
Turkey	placed 3rd in Division III last year
Bulgaria	placed 4th in Division III last year
Iceland	placed 5th in Division III last year
Chinese Taipei	placed 6th in Division III last year
South Africa	placed 7th in Division III last year
New Zealand	placed 8th in Division III last year

Match officials

Six referees and 10 linesmen were selected for the tournament.[3]

Referees

Anton Gofman
Patrick Gruber
Liu Jiaqi
Levente Szilárd Sikó
Sakari Suominen
Kent Unwin

Linesmen

Christoph Barnthaler
Imre Fehér
Gao Yinfeng
Barna Kis-Király
Artsiom Labzov
Sæmundur Leifsson
Stef Oosterling
Kiril Peychinov
Graham Rodger
Vasiliy Vasilev

Preliminary round

Division III Venue
Sofia
Winter Sports Palace Capacity: 4,600

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iceland	3	3	0	19	6	+13	9	Semifinals
2	Mexico	3	2	1	12	7	+5	6	Semifinals
3	Bulgaria (H)	3	1	2	8	11	−3	3	5–8th place semifinals
4	New Zealand	3	0	3	3	18	−15	0	5–8th place semifinals

Source: IIHF
(H) Host.

13 January 2020
17:00

Mexico

5–0
(1–0, 2–0, 2–0)

New Zealand

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 115

Game reference

Marcello de Antunano

Goalies

Finley Forbes

Referee:

Liu Jiaqi
Linesmen:

Barna Kis-Király

Vasiliy Vasilev

Hagerman (Dunn, Linares) (PP) – 09:59	1–0
Dunn – 28:55	2–0
Dunn (Sánchez, Tapia) – 30:28	3–0
Sánchez (Dunn, Tapia) – 45:38	4–0
Dunn – 49:09	5–0

18 min

Penalties

10 min

37

Shots

14

13 January 2020
20:30

Bulgaria

3–4
(1–1, 0–2, 2–1)

Iceland

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 760

Game reference

Ivan Stoynov

Goalies

Jóhann Ragnarsson

Referee:

Anton Gofman
Linesmen:

Artsiom Labzov

Graham Rodger

Vasilev – 08:27	1–0
	1–1	17:37 – Magnússon (Árnason)
	1–2	26:04 – Atlason
	1–3	36:03 – Árnason (Orongan)
Vasilev (PP) – 41:12	2–3
Vachkov (EA) – 59:42	3–3
	3–4	59:59 – Rúnarsson

8 min

Penalties

10 min

18

Shots

45

14 January 2020
17:00

Iceland

5–2
(1–0, 3–2, 1–0)

Mexico

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 110

Game reference

Jóhann Ragnarsson

Goalies

Santiago Gómez

Referee:

Sakari Suominen
Linesmen:

Imre Fehér

Kiril Peychinov

Atlason (Orongan) – 12:19	1–0
Orongan – 20:19	2–0
Arason (Magnússon, Atlason) – 28:51	3–0
Sveinsson (Orongan, Kristveigarson (PP) – 29:52	4–0
	4–1	31:06 – Rullan (Hagerman)
	4–2	39:52 – Olvera (Hagerman, Linares)
Kristveigarson (Atlason, Orongan) (ENG) – 59:49	5–2

20 min

Penalties

28 min

31

Shots

11

14 January 2020
20:30

Bulgaria

3–2
(0–0, 2–1, 1–1)

New Zealand

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 850

Game reference

Ivan Stoynov

Goalies

Finley Forbes

Referee:

Levente Szilárd Sikó
Linesmen:

Christoph Barnthaler

Sæmundur Leifsson

Vasilev (Vachkov, Tomov) – 21:50	1–0
Ivanov (Nakov) – 25:36	2–0
	2–1	35:25 – Robbie (Martinoli)
	2–2	41:19 – Martinoli (Reid)
Dzhorov – 44:54	3–2

10 min

Penalties

33 min

26

Shots

12

16 January 2020
13:30

New Zealand

1–10
(1–4, 0–2, 0–4)

Iceland

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 65

Game reference

Rhett Wilson

Goalies

Johann Ragnarsson

Referee:

Kent Unwin
Linesmen:

Christoph Barnthaler

Kiril Peychinov

Audas (Flight) – 02:02	1–0
	1–1	04:35 – Kristveigarson (V. Arason, Magnússon)
	1–2	06:08 – Orongan (SH2)
	1–3	14:13 – Sveinsson (Grant, Ólafarson) (PP)
	1–4	19:39 – Orongan
	1–5	20:49 – Orongan (G. Arason)
	1–6	33:05 – Skulason (Magnusson, Gunnarsson)
	1–7	47:02 – Grant (Sveinsson, Ólafarson)
	1–8	49:24 – Kristveigarson
	1–9	49:52 – Rúnarsson (Magnusson)
	1–10	58:26 – G. Arason (Maack, Orongan)

8 min

Penalties

20 min

21

Shots

30

16 January 2020
20:30

Mexico

5–2
(1–0, 3–0, 1–2)

Bulgaria

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 920

Game reference

Marcello de Antunano

Goalies

Ivan Stoynov

Referee:

Patrick Gruber
Linesmen:

Gao Yinfeng

Stef Oosterling

Linares (Dunn, Esteban) (PP) – 16:41	1–0
Sanchez (Hagerman, Dunn) – 27:46	2–0
Hagerman (Dunn, Rullan (EA) – 31:02	3–0
Rullan (Esteban) – 35:25	4–0
Esteban (Diaz, Hagerman) – 46:11	5–0
	5–1	50:16 – Tsitselkov (Tomov, Dikov) (EA)
	5–2	52:08 – Nakov (Vachkov, Tsitselkov)

16 min

Penalties

22 min

32

Shots

18

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	3	0	14	3	+11	9	Semifinals
2	Turkey	3	2	1	11	4	+7	6	Semifinals
3	South Africa	3	1	2	7	15	−8	3	5–8th place semifinals
4	Chinese Taipei	3	0	3	3	13	−10	0	5–8th place semifinals

Source: IIHF

13 January 2020
10:00

Turkey

3–0
(2–0, 1–0, 0–0)

Chinese Taipei

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 120

Game reference

Soykan Varlı

Goalies

Chung Shen-wei

Referee:

Levente Szilárd Sikó
Linesmen:

Christoph Barnthaler

Kiril Peychinov

Turan (Salt, Afşin) – 11:10	1–0
Turut (Kabay, Turan) (PP) – 15:05	2–0
Afşin (Turan, Kabay) – 20:54	3–0

0 min

Penalties

14 min

27

Shots

14

13 January 2020
13:30

Australia

6–1
(0–1, 5–0, 1–0)

South Africa

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 125

Game reference

Seb Woodlands
Jeremy Friederich

Goalies

Ryan Boyd

Referee:

Sakari Suominen
Linesmen:

Imre Fehér

Sæmundur Leifsson

	0–1	05:52 – Delport (Vivier, Venter) (PP)
Lee (Riley) (PP) – 22:06	1–1
Gumm (SH) – 25:43	2–1
Riley (Lee) (SH) – 31:14	3–1
Barton (Chen, Handberg) – 37:07	4–1
Wardlaw (Kiliwnik, Hayashi) (PP) – 39:38	5–1
Wardlaw (Kiliwnik, Chen) – 49:19	6–1

14 min

Penalties

12 min

30

Shots

12

14 January 2020
10:00

Turkey

6–1
(2–0, 1–0, 3–1)

South Africa

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 95

Game reference

Soykan Varlı

Goalies

Ryan Boyd

Referee:

Kent Unwin
Linesmen:

Gao Yinfeng

Stef Oosterling

Gökçen (Afşin) (EA) – 13:38	1–0
Afşin (Kabay, Turan (PP2) – 16:36	2–0
Turan (Kabay, Gökçen) – 28:59	3–0
Demirezen (Turut, Kızılkaya) – 48:53	4–0
Afşin (Turan, Gökçen) – 49:26	5–0
Gökçen (Kabay, Afşin) – 52:21	6–0
	6–1	53:13 – Vivier (Van der Merwe)

8 min

Penalties

32 min

32

Shots

12

14 January 2020
13:30

Chinese Taipei

0–5
(0–0, 0–4, 0–1)

Australia

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 85

Game reference

Chung Shen-wei
Lee Yi-cheng

Goalies

Seb Woodlands

Referee:

Patrick Gruber
Linesmen:

Artsiom Labzov

Vasiliy Vasilev

	0–1	23:20 – Lodge (Wardlaw)
	0–2	34:33 – Lee (Lodge, Wardlaw) (PP)
	0–3	38:30 – Ransome (Handberg, Benson)
	0–4	39:08 – Wardlaw (Lodge, Hayashi)
	0–5	56:02 – Riley (Barton, Urweiss)

20 min

Penalties

26 min

19

Shots

37

16 January 2020
10:00

South Africa

5–3
(0–0, 2–2, 3–1)

Chinese Taipei

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 60

Game reference

Ryan Boyd

Goalies

Lee Yi-cheng

Referee:

Anton Gofman
Linesmen:

Barna Kis-Király

Vasiliy Vasilev

	0–1	20:21 – Chang T. (Chuang, Liu)
	0–2	21:19 – Chuang (Sang, Sun) (PP)
Schuurman (PP) – 29:06	1–2
Venter (Vivier) – 34:24	2–2
	2–3	42:02 – Lin J.
Meyer (Delport) – 49:38	3–3
Schuurman – 56:54	4–3
Vivier (Meyer) (PP, ENG) – 59:49	5–3

34 min

Penalties

6 min

24

Shots

28

16 January 2020
17:00

Australia

3–2
(0–1, 3–0, 0–1)

Turkey

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 105

Game reference

Seb Woodlands

Goalies

Soykan Varlı

Referee:

Liu Jiaqi
Linesmen:

Sæmundur Leifsson

Graham Rodger

	0–1	13:18 – Salt (Afşin) (PP2)
Riley (Gumm) – 21:38	1–1
Lee (Kiliwnik, Benson) (SH) – 36:28	2–1
Wardlaw (PP) – 38:36	3–1
	3–2	43:29 – Turan (Gökçen)

12 min

Penalties

6 min

22

Shots

29

Playoff round

5–8th Place Bracket

5–8th place semifinals		Fifth place

18 January

Bulgaria	8
		19 January
Chinese Taipei	1
		Bulgaria	6
18 January
		New Zealand	1
South Africa	1

New Zealand	2
		Seventh place

		19 January

		South Africa	4

		Chinese Taipei (OT)	5

5–8th place semifinals

18 January 2020
10:00

Bulgaria

8–1
(2–1, 1–0, 5–0)

Chinese Taipei

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 450

Game reference

Ivan Stoynov

Goalies

Lee Yi-cheng
Chung Sheng-wei

Referee:

Sakari Suominen
Linesmen:

Imre Fehér

Artsiom Labzov

Minev (Vasilev, Tomov) – 12:07	1–0
	1–1	12:43 – Liu (Sang, Yu)
Plajner (Dzhorov) – 16:09	2–1
Minev (Vasilev, Borisov) – 39:36	3–1
Vachkov (Ivanov) – 44:41	4–1
Nakov (Tsitselkov, Minev) – 45:51	5–1
Abdi (Ivanov, Vachkov) – 46:28	6—1
Vasilev (Atanasov, Borisov) – 47:25	7–1
Ivanov – 49:48	8–1

8 min

Penalties

12 min

27

Shots

21

18 January 2020
13:30

South Africa

1–2
(1–1, 0–0, 0–1)

New Zealand

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 75

Game reference

Ryan Boyd

Goalies

Finley Forbes

Referee:

Anton Gofman
Linesmen:

Kiril Peychinov

Vasiliy Vasilev

	0–1	08:11 – Flight (Audas)
Venter (PP) – 15:22	1–1
	1–2	53:36 – Boul

2 min

Penalties

8 min

27

Shots

16

Seventh place game

19 January 2020
10:00

South Africa

4–5 OT
(0–1, 2–1, 2–2)
(OT: 0–1)

Chinese Taipei

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 55

Game reference

Ryan Boyd

Goalies

Chung Sheng-wei

Referee:

Kent Unwin
Linesmen:

Imre Fehér

Sæmundur Leifsson

	0–1	12:06 – Mi (Lin Y.)
Koekemoer-Brown (Kluyts, Schuurman) – 25:44	1–1
	1–2	30:15 – Mi (Yu, Lin J.) – 30:15
Kluyts (Venter) – 31:41	2–2
	2–3	47:24 – Sun (Liang
	2–4	50:10 – Chen (Liang)
Delport (Vivier, Meyer) – 53:51	3–4
Delport (Venter, Schuurman) (PP) – 59:59	4–4
	4–5	64:32 – Mi

20 min

Penalties

24 min

27

Shots

19

Fifth place game

19 January 2020
13:30

Bulgaria

6–1
(2–0, 2–1, 2–0)

New Zealand

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 510

Game reference

Nikola Iliev

Goalies

Finley Forbes

Referee:

Liu Jiaqi
Linesmen:

Gao Yinfeng

Stef Oosterling

Abdi – 04:43	1–0
Vasilev (SH) – 08:41	2–0
Dikov (PP) – 24:54	3–0
	3–1	32:05 – Flight (Boul)
Nakov – 38:57	4–1
Vasilev (Dzhorov, Dikov) (PP) – 45:32	5–1
Ivanov (Atanasov) – 55:59	6–1

44 min

Penalties

12 min

27

Shots

29

Finals Bracket

Semifinals		Final

18 January

Iceland	5
		19 January
Turkey	2
		Iceland	4
18 January
		Australia	1
Australia	8

Mexico	3
		Third place

		19 January

		Turkey	4

		Mexico	2

Semifinals

18 January 2020
17:00

Australia

8–3
(3–2,3–0, 2–1)

Mexico

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 81

Game reference

Seb Woodlands
Jeremy Friederich

Goalies

Marcello de Antunano
Santiago Gomez

Referee:

Levente Szilárd Sikó
Linesmen:

Stef Oosterling

Graham Rodger

	0–1	02:27 – Hagerman (Rullan)
	0–2	07:00 – Esterban (Hagerman)
Gumm (Riley, Sables) (PP) – 08:10	1–2
Handberg (Wang, Benson) – 10:12	2–2
Hayashi (Lodge) – 12:50	3–2
Hayashi (Lodge) – 21:23	4–2
Hayashi (Riley, Clifford) (PP) – 23:53	5–2
Hayashi (Wardlaw, Kiliwnik – 28:26	6–2
Fodor (James, Ransome) – 53:58	7–2
Handberg (Gumm, Sables) – 55:37	8–2
	8–3	57:39 – Hagerman (Dunn, Linares) (PP)

12 min

Penalties

22 min

24

Shots

20

18 January 2020
20:30

Iceland

5–2
(1–1, 4–0, 0–0)

Turkey

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 95

Game reference

Jóhann Ragnarsson

Goalies

Soykan Varlı
Eren Demirtürk

Referee:

Liu Jiaqi
Linesmen:

Gao Yinfeng

Barna Kis-Király

Skúlason (Magnússon, Grant) – 16:16	1–0
	1–1	16:54 – Afşin (Gökçen, Turan)
Orongan – 21:52	2–1
Atlason (Orongan, Kristveigarson) – 29:30	3–1
Orongan (V. Arason, G. Arason) – 34:27	4–1
Atlason (Arnarsson, Orongan) – 35:12	5–1
	5–2	57:48 – Gökçen (SH)

8 min

Penalties

6 min

22

Shots

19

Bronze medal game

19 January 2020
17:00

Turkey

4–2
(1–1, 1–1, 2–0)

Mexico

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 250

Game reference

Eren Demirturk

Goalies

Marcello de Antunano

Referee:

Sakari Suominen
Linesmen:

Barna Kis-Király

Graham Rodger

	0–1	14:34 – Hagerman (Ortiz, Rullan) (PP)
Kızılkaya (Salt, Gökçen) (PP) – 16:33	1–1
	1–2	26:13 – Hagerman (Dunn, Rullan) (PP)
Demirezen (Kızılkaya, Gökçen) – 35:46	2–2
Turut (Kızılkaya) – 45:55	3–2
Turut (Demirezen) (ENG) – 59:39	4–2

14 min

Penalties

32 min

25

Shots

26

Gold medal game

19 January 2020
20:30

Iceland

4–1
1–0, 2–0, 1–1

Australia

Winter Sports Palace, Sofia
Attendance: 350

Game reference

Jóhann Ragnarsson

Goalies

Seb Woodlands

Referee:

Anton Gofman
Linesmen:

Christoph Barnthaler

Artsiom Labzov

Jóhannsson (Kristveigarson) – 18:08	1–0
Orongan (SH) – 22:47	2–0
Orongan (PP) – 34:40	3–0
Kristveigarson (Orongan) – 40:17	4–0
	4–1	43:12 – Ransome (Barton, Kiliwnik)

22 min

Penalties

10 min

26

Shots

16

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	Iceland
	Australia
	Turkey
4	Mexico
5	Bulgaria
6	New Zealand
7	Chinese Taipei
8	South Africa

Statistics

Top 10 scorers

Pos	Player	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/–	PIM
1	Axel Orongan	Iceland	5	8	8	16	+13	2
2	Gonzalo Hagerman	Mexico	5	6	5	11	+3	32
3	Benjamin Dunn	Mexico	5	3	7	10	0	20
4	Firat Afsin	Turkey	5	4	5	9	+7	2
5	İsmet Gökçen	Turkey	5	3	6	9	+8	0
6	Miroslav Vasilev	Bulgaria	5	6	2	8	+4	26
7	Mehmet Turan	Turkey	5	3	5	8	+6	8
8	Heidar Kristveigarson	Iceland	5	4	3	7	+10	0
8	Xander Wardlaw	Australia	5	4	3	7	+5	2
10	Sölvi Atlason	Iceland	5	4	2	6	+10	0
10	Kenshin Hayashi	Australia	5	4	2	6	+4	2

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes
Source: IIHF

Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Pos	Player	Country	TOI	GA	Sv%	GAA	SO
1	Seb Woodlands	Australia	274:55	9	90.32	1.96	1
2	Jóhann Ragnarsson	Iceland	280:00	9	89.02	1.93	0
3	Ivan Stoyov	Bulgaria	226:48	12	88.12	3.17	0
4	Marcello de Antunano	Mexico	234:06	10	87.50	2.56	1
5	Finley Forbes	New Zealand	238:57	15	87.18	3.77	0

TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF.com

Awards

Best Players Selected by the Directorate

Award	Name
Best Goalkeeper	Seb Woodlands
Best Defenceman	Gonzalo Hagerman
Best Forward	Axel Orongan

Source: IIHF

Best Players of Each Team Selected by Coaches

Country	Name
Australia	Michael Riley
Bulgaria	Moussa Abdi
Iceland	Axel Orongan
Mexico	Gonzalo Hagerman
New Zealand	Finley Forbes
South Africa	Ryan Boyd
Chinese Taipei	Mi Huan-yu
Turkey	Haktan Kabay

Source: IIHF

References

"IIHF Ice hockey U20 World Championship Div III – Competition schedule" (PDF). IIHF. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
Tchechankov, Ivan (20 January 2020). "Iceland triumphs in U20 Division III". IIHF.com. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
"Competition Officials". IIHF. January 6, 2020. Retrieved January 6, 2020.

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[1] "IIHF Ice hockey U20 World Championship Div III – Competition schedule" (PDF). IIHF. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.

[2] Tchechankov, Ivan (20 January 2020). "Iceland triumphs in U20 Division III". IIHF.com. Retrieved 20 January 2020.

[3] "Competition Officials". IIHF. January 6, 2020. Retrieved January 6, 2020.

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