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

Final standings

The 1989 tournament was a round-robin
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 format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS
7 6 1 0 51 14 12
7 6 1 0 39 14 12
7 4 2 1 36 19 9
4 7 4 2 1 31 23 9
5 7 3 3 1 41 25 7
6 7 2 4 1 29 37 5
7 7 1 6 0 14 56 2
8 7 0 7 0 13 66 0


West Germany
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 was relegated to Pool B for 1990
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.

Results

Leading scorers

  GP G A Pts PIM
  Jeremy Roenick
Jeremy Roenick
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8 8 16
  Mike Modano
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6 9 15
  Pavel Bure
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8 6 14
  Alexander Mogilny
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7 5 12
  Josef Beránek
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5 7 12
  Sergei Fedorov
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4 8 12

Tournament all-stars

Alexei Ivashkin Rickard Persson Milan Tichý
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 Niklas Eriksson
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 Pavel Bure
Pavel Bure
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 Jeremy Roenick
Jeremy Roenick
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Qualification for Pool B

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

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Chamonix
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 France
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 from March 19 to 28. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS                
1 7 7 0 0 49 20 14 9 - 1 13 - 4 7 - 2 6 - 5 5 - 3 4 - 2 5 - 3
2 7 6 1 0 45 19 12 1 - 9 2 - 0 9 - 5 13 - 1 3 - 1 8 - 1 9 - 2
3 7 4 3 0 32 31 8 4 - 13 0 - 2 5 - 1 2 - 5 6 - 3 9 - 5 6 - 2
4 7 4 3 0 32 34 8 2 - 7 5 - 9 1 - 5 8 - 4 6 - 2 5 - 4 5 - 3
5 7 4 3 0 42 40 8 5 - 6 1 - 13 5 - 2 4 - 8 6 - 3 11 - 3 10 - 5
6 7 1 5 1 23 31 3 3 - 5 1 - 3 3 - 6 2 - 6 3 - 6 4 - 4 7 - 1
7 7 1 5 1 25 42 3 2 - 4 1 - 8 5 - 9 4 - 5 3 - 11 4 - 4 6 - 1
8 7 0 7 0 17 48 0 3 - 5 2 - 9 2 - 6 3 - 5 5 - 10 1 - 7 1 - 6

Poland
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 was promoted to Pool A and the Netherlands
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 was relegated to Pool C for 1990
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The 1990 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 14th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held mainly in Helsinki, Finland...

.

Pool C

This five team tournament was a round robin played in Basingstoke
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 Great Britain
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 from March 16 to 22.

Standings
Rank Team GP W L T GF GA PTS          
1 4 3 0 1 21 14 7 2 - 2 7 - 5 5 - 2 7 - 5
2 4 2 0 2 22 14 6 2 - 2 7 - 4 6 - 6 7 - 2
3 4 2 2 0 17 20 4 5 - 7 4 - 7 5 - 4 3 - 2
4 4 0 2 2 15 19 2 2 - 5 6 - 6 4 - 5 3 - 3
5 4 0 3 1 12 20 1 5 - 7 2 - 7 2 - 3 3 - 3

Austria
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 was promoted to Pool B for 1990
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The 1990 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 14th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held mainly in Helsinki, Finland...

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