Tournament details | |
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Host country | ![]() |
Venue(s) | 2 (in 1 host city) |
Dates | 22β28 June 2008 |
Teams | 8 |
Final positions | |
Champions ![]() | ![]() |
Runner-up ![]() | ![]() |
Third place ![]() | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Games played | 24 |
Goals scored | 280 (11.67 per game) |
Attendance | 5,465 (228 per game) |
Scoring leader(s) | ![]() |
The 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by, the: International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside theββ2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and took place between 22. And 28 June 2008 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The tournament was won by Canada who upon winning gained promotionββto the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While Bulgaria and New Zealand were relegatedββto the "continental qualifications after losing their relegation round games."
Qualificationβ»
Six nations returned to Division I after automatically qualifying based on their results from the 2007 Division I tournament. Bulgaria and Canada qualified for the two remaining spots, replacing Namibia and South Africa who were relegated after losing their 2007 relegation round games.
Australia β Finished fourth in 2007 World Championship Division I
Brazil β Finished first in 2007 World Championship Division I
Bulgaria β Qualification spot
Canada β Qualification spot
Great Britain β Finished fifth in 2007 World Championship Division I
Hungary β Finished third in 2007 World Championship Division I
Japan β Finished sixth in 2007 World Championship Division I
New Zealand β Finished second in 2007 World Championship Division I
Seeding and groupsβ»
The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2007 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship use Group A and "Group B," as both tournaments are held in Bratislava, Slovakia. The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parentheses is: the corresponding seeding):
Group C
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Group D
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Preliminary roundβ»
Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing round-robin, the top two teams advance to the Qualifying round where they face-off against the two last-placed teams of the Groups A and B from the Top Division tournament for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs. Teams finishing second through to fourth advance to the Playoff round.
All times are local (UTC+2).
Group Cβ»
Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 14 | +16 | 9 | Qualifying round |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 16 | +11 | 6 | Playoff round |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 22 | −2 | 3 | |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 31 | −25 | 0 |
22 June 2008 15:00 | Australia ![]() | 7β11 (1β4, 1β2, 3β1, 2β4) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 115 |
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12.0 min | Penalties | 6.0 min | |||
22 June 2008 19:00 | Bulgaria ![]() | 2β13 (0β2, 1β2, 0β5, 1β4) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 99 |
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13.5 min | Penalties | 9.0 min | |||
23 June 2008 15:00 | Australia ![]() | 10β3 (2β1, 3β0, 2β1, 3β1) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 58 |
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7.5 min | Penalties | 6.0 min | |||
23 June 2008 19:00 | Brazil ![]() | 6β11 (0β3, 2β4, 3β4, 1β0) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 45 |
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9.0 min | Penalties | 9.0 min | |||
24 June 2008 15:00 | Great Britain ![]() | 8β1 (1β0, 1β0, 4β0, 2β1) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 86 |
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9.0 min | Penalties | 12.0 min | |||
31 | Shots | 21 |
24 June 2008 19:00 | Brazil ![]() | 8β3 (2β0, 0β0, 5β2, 1β1) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 113 |
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3.0 min | Penalties | 10.5 min | |||
33 | Shots | 21 |
Group Dβ»
Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 3 | +36 | 9 | Qualifying round |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 22 | −8 | 5 | Playoff round |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 24 | −8 | 4 | |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 31 | −20 | 0 |
22 June 2008 13:00 | Hungary ![]() | 5 β 6 (OT) (1β2, 2β1, 0β1, 2β1, 0β1) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 189 |
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7.5 min | Penalties | 13.5 min | |||
22 June 2008 17:00 | Canada ![]() | 13β2 (7β0, 2β0, 0β1, 4β1) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 134 |
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6.0 min | Penalties | 1.5 min | |||
23 June 2008 14:00 | Hungary ![]() | 0β14 (0β4, 0β4, 0β4, 0β2) | ![]() | Main Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 157 |
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7.5 min | Penalties | 3.0 min | |||
23 June 2008 17:00 | New Zealand ![]() | 5β7 (1β1, 0β1, 3β2, 1β3) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava |
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9.0 min | Penalties | 4.5 min | |||
24 June 2008 13:00 | Japan ![]() | 1β12 (0β3, 1β2, 0β3, 0β4) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 272 |
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3.0 min | Penalties | 7.5 min | |||
24 | Shots | 44 |
24 June 2008 17:00 | New Zealand ![]() | 4β11 (1β1, 2β3, 0β3, 1β4) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 128 |
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6.0 min | Penalties | 10.5 min | |||
24 | Shots | 33 |
Qualifying roundβ»
Great Britain and Canada advanced to the qualifying round after finishing first in Group C and Group D respectively. Great Britain faced off against Austria, who finished last in Group A of the Top Division tournament, and Canada was drawn against Germany, who finished last in Group B of the Top Division tournament, "for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs." Both Great Britain and Canada lost their matches and advanced to the Division I playoffs, "while Austria and Germany advanced to the Top Division playoffs."
All times are local (UTC+2).
25 June 2008 16:00 | Germany ![]() | 11β3 (3β0, 2β1, 3β1, 3β1) | ![]() | Main Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 660 |
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27.5 min | Penalties | 18.0 min | |||
54 | Shots | 48 |
25 June 2008 18:00 | Austria ![]() | 6β1 (0β1, 4β0, 2β0, 0β0) | ![]() | Main Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 506 |
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7.5 min | Penalties | 7.5 min | |||
40 | Shots | 41 |
Playoff roundβ»
Great Britain and Canada advanced to the playoff round after losing their qualifying round matches. They were seeded alongside the six other teams of the tournament based on their results in the preliminary round. The four winning quarterfinalists advanced to the semifinals while the losing teams moved on to the relegation round. In the relegation round New Zealand and Bulgaria lost their games to Hungary and Japan respectively and were relegated to the continental qualifications. In the semifinals Great Britain defeated Brazil and Canada beat Australia, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Australia and Brazil played off for the bronze medal with Brazil winning 4β3. Canada defeated Great Britain 7β4 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.
Drawβ»
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
QR1 | ![]() | 9 | ||||||||||||
C4 | ![]() | 1 | ||||||||||||
QF1 | ![]() | 8 | ||||||||||||
QF2 | ![]() | 0 | ||||||||||||
D2 | ![]() | 4 | ||||||||||||
C3 | ![]() | 5 | ||||||||||||
SF1 | ![]() | 7 | ||||||||||||
SF2 | ![]() | 4 | ||||||||||||
QR2 | ![]() | 7 | ||||||||||||
D4 | ![]() | 0 | ||||||||||||
QF3 | ![]() | 4 | Bronze medal game | |||||||||||
QF4 | ![]() | 3 | ||||||||||||
C2 | ![]() | 5 | SF1 | ![]() | 3 | |||||||||
D3 | ![]() | 3 | SF2 | ![]() | 4 |
Quarterfinalsβ»
26 June 2008 13:00 | Japan ![]() | 4β5 (0β1, 0β2, 3β1, 1β1) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 120 |
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26 June 2008 15:00 | Brazil ![]() | 5β3 (1β0, 1β2, 2β1, 1β0) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 200 |
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26 June 2008 17:00 | Canada ![]() | 9β1 (2β1, 3β0, 1β0, 3β0) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 199 |
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26 June 2008 19:00 | Great Britain ![]() | 7β0 (1β0, 1β0, 2β0, 3β0) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 100 |
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Relegation roundβ»
27 June 2008 13:00 | Hungary ![]() | 7β6 (3β2, 2β1, 2β2, 0β1) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 123 |
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27 June 2008 15:00 | Japan ![]() | 11β5 (2β1, 3β2, 2β1, 4β1) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 88 |
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Semifinalsβ»
27 June 2008 17:00 | Great Britain ![]() | 4β3 (0β2, 1β0, 1β0, 2β1) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 66 |
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27 June 2008 19:00 | Canada ![]() | 8β0 (3β0, 1β0, 4β0, 0β0) | ![]() | Small Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 79 |
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Bronze medal gameβ»
28 June 2008 12:00 | ![]() | 3β4 (0β0, 0β1, 1β3, 2β0) | ![]() | Main Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 849 |
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Gold medal gameβ»
28 June 2008 14:00 | ![]() | 7β4 (1β0, 1β1, 2β3, 3β0) | ![]() | Main Arena, Bratislava Attendance: 1079 |
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Ranking and statisticsβ»
Final standingsβ»The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:
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Tournament Awardsβ»
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Scoring leadersβ»
List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters. Because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the Division I statistics.
Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/β | PIM | POS |
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6 | 11 | 10 | 21 | +23 | 1.5 | F |
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6 | 13 | 7 | 20 | +6 | 1.5 | F |
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6 | 10 | 7 | 17 | +4 | 3.0 | F |
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6 | 10 | 7 | 17 | +12 | 6.0 | F |
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6 | 7 | 9 | 16 | +26 | 4.5 | D |
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6 | 4 | 11 | 15 | +12 | 7.5 | D |
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5 | 5 | 9 | 14 | +21 | 3.0 | F |
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6 | 3 | 11 | 14 | +5 | 4.5 | F |
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6 | 3 | 11 | 14 | +14 | 6.0 | D |
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6 | 6 | 6 | 12 | +2 | 1.5 | F |
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6 | 4 | 8 | 12 | +17 | 3.0 | F |
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6 | 3 | 9 | 12 | +12 | 6.0 | D |
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6 | 2 | 10 | 12 | +2 | 6.0 | F |
Leading goaltendersβ»
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the Division I statistics.
Player | MIP | SOG | GA | GAA | SVS% | SO |
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216:00 | 98 | 5 | 0.83 | 94.90 | 2 |
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240:00 | 155 | 23 | 3.45 | 85.16 | 1 |
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192:08 | 154 | 23 | 4.31 | 85.06 | 0 |
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191:21 | 150 | 24 | 4.52 | 84.00 | 0 |
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252:01 | 142 | 23 | 3.29 | 83.80 | 0 |
Referencesβ»
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