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IIHF World U20 Championship Division I

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IIHF World U20 Championship Division I
Most recent season or competition:
2024 IIHF U20 World Championship Division I
FormerlyB-series (1979–2000)
SportIce hockey
Founded1979 (B-series)
2001 (Division I)
No. of teams12
Most recent
champion(s)
 Kazakhstan (Group A)
 Slovenia (Group B)
Most titles Germany (7 titles)
Promotion toIIHF World U20 Championship
Relegation toDivision II
Official websiteIIHF.com

The IIHF World U20 Championship Division I is played every year among the ice hockey teams under the age of 20 who were placed in Division I in the previous year.[1][2]

Until 2001 the tournament was known as the B-series.

Results

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Year Promoted Relegated
To IIHF U20 Top division To Division I A To Division I B To IIHF U20 Division II
2001  France  Latvia
2002  Germany No relegated team
2003  Ukraine,  Austria  Croatia,  Poland
2004  Germany,  Belarus  Hungary,  Japan
2005  Norway,  Latvia  Great Britain,  Estonia
2006  Germany,  Belarus  Japan,  Hungary
2007  Denmark,  Kazakhstan  Estonia,  Italy
2008  Germany,  Latvia  Lithuania,  Great Britain
2009   Switzerland,  Austria  Estonia,  Hungary
2010  Germany,  Norway  France,  Poland
2011  Latvia,  Denmark  Ukraine,  Lithuania
2012  Germany  France  Great Britain  Japan
2013  Norway  Poland  France  Croatia
2014  Denmark  Italy  Poland  Japan
2015  Belarus  Kazakhstan  Slovenia  Hungary
2016  Latvia  France  Italy  Japan
2017  Belarus  Hungary  Norway  Great Britain
2018  Kazakhstan  Norway  Hungary  Lithuania
2019  Germany  Slovenia  France  Japan
2020  Austria  Hungary  Slovenia  Italy
2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022  Latvia  France,  Slovenia No relegated team No relegated team
2023  Norway  Japan  Slovenia  South Korea
2024  Kazakhstan  Slovenia  Japan  Croatia
2025

Pool B

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Champions (1979–2000)

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Year National team
1979   Switzerland
1980  Austria
1981   Switzerland
1982  Norway
1983   Switzerland
1984  Poland
1985   Switzerland
1986  Poland
1987  West Germany
1988  Norway
1989  Poland
1990   Switzerland
1991  Germany
1992  Japan
1993   Switzerland
1994  Ukraine
1995   Switzerland,  Slovakia
1996  Poland
1997  Kazakhstan
1998  Belarus
1999  Ukraine
2000  Belarus

References

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  1. ^ "IIHF - Tournaments".
  2. ^ "Past Tournaments".