2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship – Division I

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2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship Division I
2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship – Division I logo.png
Tournament details
Host countries  Hungary
 Austria
Dates 7–11 January 2016
10–16 January 2016
Teams 14
Venue(s) (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg  Japan
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg  Germany
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg  Slovakia
2015
2017

The 2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship Division I and 2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship Division I Qualification were a pair of international under-18 women's ice hockey tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I and Division I Qualification tournaments made up the second and third level of competition at the 2016 IIHF World Women's U18 Championships respectively. The Division I tournament took place between 10 January and 16 January 2016 in Miskolc, Hungary. The tournament was won by Japan who gained promotion back to the Championship Division for 2017 while Denmark finished last and was relegated back to Qualification for 2017. The Division I Qualification tournament took place from 7 January to 11 January 2016 in Spittal an der Drau and Radenthein, Austria. Austria won the tournament defeating Italy in the final and gained promotion back to Division I for 2017.

Division I tournament

The Division I tournament began on 10 January 2016 in Miskolc, Hungary at the Miskolc Arena.[1] Germany, Hungary, Norway and Slovakia returned to compete in the Division I competition after missing promotion to the Championship Division at the previous years World Championships.[2] Denmark gained promotion to the 2016 Division I tournament after finishing first in last years Division I Qualification and Japan was relegated from the Championship Division after failing to survive the relegation round at the 2015 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship.[3][4]

Japan won the tournament after winning all five of their games, finishing first in the group standings and gained promotion back to the Championship Division for the 2017 IIHF World Women's U18 Championships.[1][5] Germany finished in second place after losing only to Japan and Slovakia finished in third place.[5] Denmark finished the tournament in last place after losing all five of their games and was relegated back to Division I Qualification for 2017.[1][5] Ayu Tonosaki of Japan led the tournament in goaltending with a save percentage of 96.55 and was named the top goaltender by the IIHF directorate.[6][7] Germany's Emily Nix and Norway's Millie Sirum finished as the top scorers of the tournament with eight points each which included two goals and six assists.[8] Nix was also named as the tournaments best forward and Tatiana Istocyova of Slovakia was named best defenceman.[7]

Standings

Team GP
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
 Japan 5 5 0 0 0 18 2 +16 15
 Germany 5 3 1 0 1 19 8 +11 11
 Slovakia 5 3 0 1 1 18 9 +9 10
 Norway 5 2 0 0 3 14 12 +2 6
 Hungary 5 1 0 0 4 4 24 −20 3
 Denmark 5 0 0 0 5 2 20 −18 0
Promoted to the 2017 Top Division Relegated to the 2017 Division I Qualification

Fixtures

All times are local. (CETUTC+1)

10 January 2016
12:30
Denmark  0 – 3
(0–0, 0–1, 0–2)
 Japan Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 55
10 January 2016
16:00
Germany  5 – 1
(0–1, 4–0, 1–0)
 Norway Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 110
10 January 2016
19:30
Hungary  0 – 5
(0–3, 0–0, 0–2)
 Slovakia Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 350
11 January 2016
12:30
Japan  3 – 1
(0–1, 1–0, 2–0)
 Germany Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 45
11 January 2016
16:00
Slovakia  5 – 0
(1–0, 4–0, 0–0)
 Denmark Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 40
11 January 2016
19:30
Norway  5 – 0
(1–0, 1–0, 3–0)
 Hungary Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 150
13 January 2016
12:30
Norway  2 – 5
(1–0, 0–2, 1–3)
 Slovakia Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 85
13 January 2016
16:00
Denmark  1 – 3
(0–0, 0–1, 1–2)
 Great Britain Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 65
13 January 2016
19:30
Japan  7 – 0
(2–0, 4–0, 1–0)
 Hungary Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 120
14 January 2016
12:30
Norway  6 – 1
(2–0, 3–0, 1–1)
 Denmark Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 55
14 January 2016
16:00
Slovakia  1 – 4
(0–2, 1–0, 0–2)
 Japan Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 90
14 January 2016
19:30
Germany  7 – 1
(2–0, 4–0, 1–1)
 Hungary Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 100
16 January 2016
12:30
Slovakia  2 – 3 OT
(1–0, 1–1, 0–1, 0–1)
 Germany Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 95
16 January 2016
16:00
Japan  1 – 0
(1–0, 0–0, 0–0)
 Norway Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 50
16 January 2016
19:30
Hungary  3 – 0
(2–0, 1–0, 0–0)
 Denmark Miskolc Arena
Attendance: 250

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.[8]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Germany Emily Nix 5 2 6 8 +8 2 F
Norway Millie Sirum 5 2 6 8 +3 12 F
Slovakia Viktoria Maskalova 5 6 1 7 +4 2 F
Norway Josefine Biseth Engmann 5 5 2 7 +3 4 F
Slovakia Tatiana Istocyova 5 1 5 6 +6 4 D
Germany Larissa Eicher 5 4 1 5 –4 2 F
Japan Ran Hinata 5 3 2 5 +4 0 F
Slovakia Romana Kosecka 5 3 2 5 +1 4 F
Slovakia Annamaria Surakova 5 2 3 5 +1 8 F
Germany Kelsey Soccio 5 4 0 4 +4 2 F

Leading goaltenders

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.[6]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Japan Ayu Tonosaki 274:26 58 2 0.44 96.55 1
Norway Ena Nystrom 277:18 142 10 2.16 92.96 1
Denmark Cassandra Repstock-Romme 120:40 85 6 2.98 92.94 0
Germany Johanna May 260:52 80 6 1.38 92.50 0
Slovakia Adriana Stofankova 272:32 99 9 1.98 90.91 1

Division I Qualification tournament

The Division I Qualification tournament began on 7 January 2016 in Spittal an der Drau and Radenthein, Austria at the Eis Sport Arena and Nockhalle respectively.[9] China, Great Britain, Italy, Kazakhstan and Poland returned to compete in the Division I Qualification competition after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championships.[3] Australia and Romania made their debut in the competition and Austria entered the tournament after being relegated from Division I at the 2015 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship.[2]

The teams were divided into two groups of four for the preliminary round.[10] Group A was won by Austria and Group B by Italy with both teams advancing to the gold medal game.[10][11] Kazakhstan and Great Britain both advanced to the bronze medal game after finishing second in their groups.[10][11] China and Poland made up the fifth place classification match after finishing third in the preliminary round and Australia and Romania were drawn against each other for the seventh place classification match.[10][11] Austria defeated Italy 3–2 in the gold medal game to win the tournament and gain promotion back to Division I for the 2017 IIHF World Women's U18 Championships.[9][11] Kazakhstan finished third after beating Great Britain 2–0 in the bronze medal game.[11][12] Following the end of the tournament the IIHF directorate named China's Siye He best goaltender of the tournament, Italy's Nadia Mattivi best defenceman and Theresa Schafzahl of Austria best forward.[13] Italy's Eugenia Pompanin led the tournament in goaltending with a save percentage of 93.81 and Malika Aldabergenova of Kazakhstan finished as the top scorer with twelve points which included five goals and seven assists.[14][15]

Preliminary round

Group A

Team GP
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
 Austria 3 3 0 0 0 20 1 +19 9
 Kazakhstan 3 2 0 0 1 20 7 +13 6
 China 3 1 0 0 2 12 11 +1 3
 Romania 3 0 0 0 3 3 36 −33 0

All times are local. (CETUTC+1)

7 January 2016
12:00
Kazakhstan  5 – 2
(2–1, 0–1, 3–0)
 China Eis Sport Arena
7 January 2016
15:30
Austria  12 – 0
(3–0, 5–0, 4–0)
 Romania Eis Sport Arena
8 January 2016
12:00
Kazakhstan  15 – 0
(5–0, 3–0, 7–0)
 Romania Eis Sport Arena
Attendance: 150
8 January 2016
15:30
China  1 – 3
(0–1, 1–1, 0–1)
 Austria Eis Sport Arena
Attendance: 590
10 January 2016
12:00
Romania  3 – 9
(0–0, 1–6, 2–3)
 China Eis Sport Arena
Attendance: 110
10 January 2016
15:30
Austria  5 – 0
(3–0, 0–0, 2–0)
 Kazakhstan Eis Sport Arena
Attendance: 625

Group B

Team GP
W
OTW
OTL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
 Italy 3 3 0 0 0 15 3 +12 9
 Great Britain 3 2 0 0 1 7 6 +1 6
 Poland 3 1 0 0 2 14 7 +7 3
 Australia 3 0 0 0 3 2 22 −20 0

All times are local. (CETUTC+1)

7 January 2016
11:45
Poland  11 – 0
(6–0, 2–0, 3–0)
 Australia Nockhalle
Attendance: 110
7 January 2016
15:15
Italy  3 – 1
(0–0, 2–1, 1–0)
 Great Britain Nockhalle
Attendance: 110
8 January 2016
11:45
Poland  1 – 3
(0–2, 0–1, 1–0)
 Great Britain Nockhalle
Attendance: 120
8 January 2016
15:15
Australia  0 – 8
(0–2, 0–3, 0–3)
 Italy Nockhalle
10 January 2016
11:45
Great Britain  3 – 2
(1–0, 0–0, 2–2)
 Australia Nockhalle
Attendance: 120
10 January 2016
15:15
Italy  4 – 2
(0–0, 2–0, 2–2)
 Poland Nockhalle
Attendance: 250

Playoff round

Seventh place game

11 January 2016
11:45
Romania  6 – 7 SO
(3–1, 2–2, 1–3, 0–0, 0–1)
 Australia Nockhalle
Attendance: 130

Fifth place game

11 January 2016
15:15
China  5 – 2
(1–0, 4–0, 0–2)
 Poland Nockhalle

Bronze medal game

11 January 2016
12:00
Kazakhstan  2 – 0
(1–0, 1–0, 0–0)
 Great Britain Eis Sport Arena
Attendance: 300

Gold medal game

11 January 2016
15:30
Austria  3 – 2
(1–2, 1–0, 1–0)
 Italy Eis Sport Arena
Attendance: 736

Ranking and statistics

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:[12]

Rk. Team
Gold medal icon.svg  Austria
Silver medal icon.svg  Italy
Bronze medal icon.svg  Kazakhstan
4.  Great Britain
5.  China
6.  Poland
7.  Australia
8.  Romania

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.[15]

Player GP G A Pts +/- PIM POS
Kazakhstan Malika Aldabergenova 4 5 7 12 +13 12 F
Kazakhstan Anastassiya Petsevich 4 7 3 10 +13 4 F
Italy Anita Muraro 4 7 1 8 +6 2 F
Austria Theresa Schafzahl 4 3 5 8 +11 4 F
China Rui Zhu 4 5 2 7 +4 2 F
Romania Voicu Ana 4 3 4 7 –17 14 F
Kazakhstan Alexandra Feklistova 4 5 1 6 +14 4 D
China Naiyuan Tian 4 5 1 6 +2 10 F
Austria Sophie Engelhart 4 4 2 6 +9 0 F
Austria Jennifer Pesendorfer 4 3 3 6 +10 0 F

Leading goaltenders

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.[14]

Player MIP SOG GA GAA SVS% SO
Italy Eugenia Pompanin 180:00 97 6 2.00 93.81 0
United Kingdom Isobel Wallace 180:00 74 5 1.67 93.24 0
Austria Jessica Ekrt 180:00 24 2 0.67 91.67 2
Kazakhstan Alexandra Poliyenko 180:00 83 7 2.33 91.57 1
China Siye He 234:45 147 13 3.32 91.16 0

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