2003 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships


The 2003 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships were held in Helsinki, Turku and Tampere in Finland from April 26 to May 11. This international event was the 67th such event sanctioned by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The competition also served as qualification for division placements in the 2004 competition. Canada won the gold medal, beating Sweden 3–2 in the final.
In the quarterfinal between Sweden and Finland, the Swedes completed an outstanding comeback. Being down 5–1 7 minutes into the second period, Sweden decided to change goaltender from Tommy Salo to Mikael Tellqvist. After the change, the Swedes scored 3 goals in the same period to reduce the lead to 5–4. In the third period, Peter Forsberg scored a famous goal to tie the game up, when he skated from the Swedes' zone all the way to Finland's offensive zone, scoring on a wrap around. Later in the same period, Per Johan Axelsson scored the game-winning goal to win the game 6–5 for the Swedes.
The final game and the championship title was decided by Anson Carter’s goal in overtime which needed to be reviewed by the video goal judge who needed five minutes to confirm the goal was good and the gold went to Canada.

Championship

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Qualification round

Group E

Group F

Final round

Relegation round

avoids relegation by defeating 4–1 in the Far East Qualification of the 2004 World Championship.
and are demoted to Division I at the 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships.

Scoring leaders

Goaltending leaders

Division I

Group A

Played at Budapest, Hungary April 15–21
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Group B

Played at Zagreb, Croatia April 13–20
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and are promoted to the 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, and are demoted to Division II.

Division II

Group A

Played at Seoul, South Korea, April 5–12
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Group B

Played at Sofia, Bulgaria, March 24–30
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and are promoted to Division I, and are demoted to Division III.

Division III

Played at Auckland, New Zealand April 3–6
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and are promoted to Division II.