2019 World Para Ice Hockey Championships


The 10th edition of World Para Ice Hockey Championships was held in 2019. The championships were divided into three tournaments.
The main event was hosted by Ostrava, Czech Republic The first matches were played on April 27 and the championships concluded with the final game played on May 4. It was the second time Ostrava World Para Ice Hockey Championships, as Ostrava hosted the Championships 10 years ago in 2009. The tournament achieved record number of spectators, as their total number reached 65,000. It also broke record for single game as the semifinal of hosting team against United States and bronze medal match against South Korea saw 8,600 spectator each, both surpassing the record from 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City.
Tournament B was held in Berlin, Germany from November 17 to 22.
Tournament C was held in Vierumäki, Finland, from November 6 to 8, 2018, with three teams competing: Australia, China, and Finland.

Format

In Tournament A the contestants were divided into two groups based on their ranking. The top two teams from Group A advanced directly into semi-finals while the remaining two teams together with the best two teams from Group B advanced to quarter-finals. Remaining two teams from Group B were relegated to B-Pool for the following championships.
Tournament B was played in a round-robin where every team played a match with every other team. The top two teams then advanced to A-Pool for championships in 2021 while the last team was relegated to 2020 C-Pool.

Tournament A

Venue

Preliminary round

All times are local.

Group A

Group B

Playoff round

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Seventh place match

Quarterfinals

Fifth place match

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Final

Final ranking and statistics

Final ranking

Pos = Final position; Grp = Group

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Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals, then by least number of games played.
Gen = Gender; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; Pos = Position

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Goaltending leaders

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.
Gen = Gender; MiP = Minutes and seconds played; SOG = Shots on goal; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average per 45 minutes; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts

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Awards

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Team rosters

Canada

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Czech Republic

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Italy

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Japan

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Norway

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South Korea

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Sweden

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United States

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Tournament B

Venue

All the matches were played in Berlin P09 Eissporthalle.

Results

Team rosters

China

, Che Hang, Cui Yu Tao, Guo Xi Zhu, Hu Guang Jian, Ji Yan Zhao, Li Zhen Yang, Qiu Dian Peng, Shen Yi Feng, Song Xiao Dong, Tian Jin Tao, Wang Ju Jiang, Wang Wei, Wang Zhi Dong, Xu Jin Qiang, Zhang Zheng, Zhu Zhan Fu

Germany

, Klaus Brzoska, Bas Disveld, Bernhard Hering, Christian Jaster, Nils Krueger, Ingo Kuhli-Lauenstein, Simon Kunst, Veit Mühlhans, Robert Pabst, Christian Pilz, Hugo Raedler, Felix Schrader, Lucas Sklorz, Joerg Wedde, Jacob Wolff

Great Britain

, Tyler Christopher, Matt Clarkson, Mark Colquitt, Bryan Hackworth, Dean Lahan, Jonathon Le Galloudec, Karl Nicholson, Martin Quinn, Scott Trigg-Turner, Matt Woollias

Poland

, Radosław Drapała, Sylwester Flis, Marcin Hebda, Sebastian Kartosz, Andrzej Młynarczyk, Mateusz Murawski, Krzysztof Sekulski, Mariusz Zieliński

Russia

, Dmitrii Galkin, Vladimir Kamantsev, Airat Khamzin, Maksim Kuzminykh, Ivan Kuznetsov, Dmitrii Lisov, Igor Maletskiy, Mikhail Miachin, Evgenii Petrov, Evgenii Plotnikov, Roman Severin, Konstantin Shikhov, Andrey Sokolov, Nikolai Terentev, Vasilii Varlakov, Ilia Volkov

Slovakia

, Erik Fojtík, Martin Joppa, Miroslav Kardoš, Peter Kaščák, Dávid Korman, Eduard Lepáček, Marián Ligda, Miroslav Pastucha, Miroslav Stašák, Peter Štít, Róbert Turic, Miloš Večerek

Tournament C

Venue

All the matches were held in Vierumäki Sport Institute.

Results