2013 IIHF World U18 Championships
The 2013 IIHF U18 World Championship was the 15th IIHF World U18 Championship and was hosted in Sochi, Russia. This was also a test event for the facilities to be used in the 2014 Winter Olympics. It began on 18 April 2013 with the gold medal game played on 28 April 2013.
Canada won its third under-18 championship by defeating the four time defending champion Americans 3–2. The host Russians lost to Finland 2–1 in the bronze medal game. MVP Connor McDavid set Canadian records for goals and points in the tournament.
Top Division
Format
A new format was implemented. The four best ranked teams from the preliminary round advanced to the quarterfinals, while the last placed teams played a relegation round in a best of three format to determine the relegated team. Additionally the practice of playing ranking games was abandoned.Venues
- Bolshoy Ice Dome
- Shayba Arena
Officials
They were the following:
Referees
- Tobias Björk
- Marcus Brill
- Igor Dremelj
- Peter Gebei
- Jacob Grumsen
- René Hradil
- Andreas Koch
- Jari Leppäalho
- Timothy Mayer
- Róbert Mullner
- Steve Papp
- Evgeniy Romasko
- Vasili Kaliada
- Kenji Kosaka
- Joep Leermakers
- Fraser McIntyre
- Eduard Metalnikov
- Pasi Nieminen
- Henrik Pihlblad
- Mariusz Smura
- Rudolf Tosenovjan
- Matt Traub
Preliminary round
| Team qualified to Quarterfinals | |
| Team will play in Relegation round |
Group A
Group B
Relegation round
The last-placed teams play a best-of-three series.- Latvia is relegated to 2014 Division I A; the third game was not played because the result of the relegation series had been decided.
Knockout stage
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Scoring leaders
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/− | PIM |
 Connor McDavid | 7 | 8 | 6 | 14 | +8 | 2 |
 Pavel Buchnevich | 7 | 5 | 6 | 11 | +4 | 2 |
| Vladimir Tkachyov | 7 | 5 | 6 | 11 | +5 | 2 |
| Ivan Barbashev | 7 | 3 | 6 | 9 | +7 | 4 |
 Artturi Lehkonen | 7 | 3 | 6 | 9 | +2 | 12 |
| Kasperi Kapanen | 7 | 5 | 3 | 8 | +4 | 4 |
| Nicholas Baptiste | 7 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +6 | 4 |
| Morgan Klimchuk | 7 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +4 | 4 |
 Tyler Motte | 7 | 5 | 2 | 7 | +5 | 4 |
 Róbert Lantoši | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | −2 | 0 |
| Valeri Nichushkin | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Source:
Leading goaltenders
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.| Player | TOI | SA | GA | GAA | Sv% | SO |
| Philippe Desrosiers | 300:00 | 130 | 4 | 0.80 | 97.01 | 2 |
| Juuse Saros | 419:15 | 239 | 13 | 1.86 | 94.56 | 1 |
| Igor Shestyorkin | 344:31 | 192 | 13 | 2.26 | 93.66 | 0 |
 Jonas Johansson | 215:42 | 116 | 8 | 2.23 | 93.10 | 1 |
| Dávid Okoličány | 196.54 | 113 | 10 | 3.05 | 91.15 | 0 |
Source:
Tournament Awards
Best players selected by the directorate:- Best Goalkeeper:
- Best Defenseman:
- Best Forward:
Final standings
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