1989 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships


The 1989 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 13th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The Soviet Union won the gold medal, its eighth, and ultimately final, championship. Sweden won silver, and Czechoslovakia the bronze.

Final standings

The 1989 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.
RankTeamGPWLTGFGAPTS
7610511412
7610391412
742136199
4742131239
5733141257
6724129375
7716014562
8707013660

West Germany was relegated to Pool B for 1990.

Results

Scoring leaders

Tournament awards

Qualification for Pool B

Because Denmark had used an ineligible player in last year's Pool C, a special challenge was played with Italy. The games were played in Canazei, Italy.

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Chamonix, France from March 19 to 28. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.
;Standings
RankTeamGPWLTGFGAPTS
177004920149 - 113 - 47 - 26 - 55 - 34 - 25 - 3
276104519121 - 92 - 09 - 513 - 13 - 18 - 19 - 2
37430323184 - 130 - 25 - 12 - 56 - 39 - 56 - 2
47430323482 - 75 - 91 - 58 - 46 - 25 - 45 - 3
57430424085 - 61 - 135 - 24 - 86 - 311 - 310 - 5
67151233133 - 51 - 33 - 62 - 63 - 64 - 47 - 1
77151254232 - 41 - 85 - 94 - 53 - 114 - 46 - 1
87070174803 - 52 - 92 - 63 - 55 - 101 - 71 - 6
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Poland was promoted to Pool A and the Netherlands was relegated to Pool C for 1990.

Pool C

This five team tournament was a round robin played in Basingstoke, Great Britain from March 16 to 22.
;Standings
RankTeamGPWLTGFGAPTS
14301211472 - 27 - 55 - 27 - 5
24202221462 - 27 - 46 - 67 - 2
34220172045 - 74 - 75 - 43 - 2
44022151922 - 56 - 64 - 53 - 3
54031122015 - 72 - 72 - 33 - 3
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Austria was promoted to Pool B for 1990.