2008 IIHF World Championship
Division I

Tournament details
Host countries	Austria  Japan
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	13–19 April 2008
Teams	12
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The 2008 IIHF World Championship Division I was two international ice hockey tournaments organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Division I represents the second level of the Ice Hockey World Championships. The best team in each tournament, Austria and Hungary, advanced to the Top Division championship for 2009. The bottom teams in each group, South Korea and Estonia, were relegated to the lower-level Division II.

The Group A tournament was played in Innsbruck, Austria, from 13 to 19 April 2008.^[1]

Team	Qualification
Austria	Hosts; placed 15th in Top Division last year and were relegated
Poland	Placed 2nd in Division I Group A last year
Kazakhstan	Placed 3rd in Division I Group A last year
Great Britain	Placed 4th in Division I Group B last year
Netherlands	Placed 5th in Division I Group A last year
South Korea	Placed 1st in Division II Group B last year and were promoted

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Austria (H)	5	5	0	0	0	34	12	+22	15	Promoted to the 2009 Top Division
2	Kazakhstan	5	3	1	0	1	21	12	+9	11
3	Poland	5	2	1	1	1	18	17	+1	9
4	Great Britain	5	2	0	1	2	19	17	+2	7
5	Netherlands	5	0	1	0	4	15	30	−15	2
6	South Korea	5	0	0	1	4	8	27	−19	1	Relegated to the 2009 Division II

All times are local.

13 April 2008 13:30

Netherlands

3–6 (1–3, 1–0, 1–3)

Kazakhstan

TWK Arena Attendance: 1,354

Game reference
	James Schaafsma 13:31 (PP2), 28:52 (EQ) Bjorn Willemse 47:31 (EQ) Goals 3:52 (PP1) Alexei Savchenko, 9:57 (EQ) Ilya Solarev, 19:47 (PP2) Maxim Balyayev 41:59 (EQ), 45:07 (EQ) Lev Krutokhvostov 59:35 (EN) Alexey Vyatkin

13 April 2008 17:00

Great Britain

1–2 (GWS) (0–1, 1–0, 0–0) (0–0, 0–1)

Poland

TWK Arena Attendance: 2,490

Game reference
	Greg Chambers 26:14 (EQ) Goals 15:11 (EQ) Maciej Urbanowicz, 65:00 (GWS) Krzysztof Zapała

13 April 2008 20:30

South Korea

0–8 (0–3, 0–4, 0–1)

Austria

TWK Arena Attendance: 3,100

Game reference
	Goals 01:48 (EQ), 32:59 (EQ) Christoph Brandner, 04:27 (EQ) Roland Kaspitz, 17:23 (PP1) Dieter Kalt, 24:23 (EQ) Thomas Koch, 28:17 (EQ) Thomas Raffl, 35:38 (EQ) Oliver Setzinger, 40:52 (PP1) Martin Oraze

14 April 2008 13:30

Poland

6–4 (2–2, 1–1, 3–1)

Netherlands

TWK Arena Attendance: 1,090

Game reference
	Leszek Laszkiewicz 03:35 (PP1), 24:25 (SH1), Marcin Kolusz 15:54 (EQ), Adrian Labryga 40:56 (EQ), Maciej Urbanowicz 42:09 (EQ), Adam Borzęcki 51:53 (PP1) Goals 10:29 (EQ) Nicky De Jong, 19:59 (PP1) Nathaniel Korthuis, 27:49 (PS) Douglas Stienstra, 59:55 (PS) Bradley Smulders

14 April 2008 17:00

Kazakhstan

5–1 (2–0, 1–0, 2–1)

South Korea

TWK Arena Attendance: 1,270

Game reference
	Artemiy Lakiza 02:04 (PP1), Andrey Gavrilin 15:37 (EQ), 44:09 (EQ), Yevgeniy Fadeyev 39:25 (EQ), Alexey Vorontsov 45:20 (EQ) Goals 52:54 (EQ) Kim Ki Sung

14 April 2008 20:30

Austria

10–5 (4–3, 3–0, 3–2)

Great Britain

TWK Arena Attendance: 3,100

Game reference
	Marco Pewal 02:55 (EQ), Roland Kaspitz 08:23 (EQ), Gerd Gruber 13:21 (EQ), Oliver Setzinger 16:04 (PP1), 42:08 (EQ), Thomas Koch 23:38 (EQ), Gerhard Unterluggauer 25:59 (PP1), Thomas Vanek 33:33 (PP1), 41:07 (PP2), 49:46 (PP1) Goals 07:55 (PP1) Greg Chambers, 14:23 (PP1) Ashley Tait, 17:57 (EQ) Thomas Watkins, 42:52 (PP1) Jonathan Weaver, 56:17 (PP1) David Clarke

16 April 2008 13:30

South Korea

1–4 (0–1, 0–1, 1–2)

Great Britain

TWK Arena Attendance: 897

Game reference
	Cho Min Ho 50:42 (EQ) Goals 01:29 (EQ) David Clarke, 31:39 (EQ) David Longstaff, 46:52 (EQ) Daniel Meyers, 58:13 (SH1) Ashley Tait

16 April 2008 17:00

Poland

3–4 (GWS) (0–1, 0–1, 3–1) (0–0, 0–1)

Kazakhstan

TWK Arena Attendance: 2,132

Game reference
	Krzysztof Zapała 40:49 (EQ), Leszek Laszkiewicz 48:27 (EQ), Marcin Jaros 56:30 (EQ) Goals 09:40 (PP1) Andrey Gavrilin, 22:17 (EQ) Andrei Spiridonov, 44:20 (EQ) Yevgeniy Ushkov, 65:00 (GWS) Konstantin Kassatkin

16 April 2008 20:30

Austria

5–1 (0–0, 1–1, 4–0)

Netherlands

TWK Arena Attendance: 3,100

Game reference
	Philipp Lukas 20:57 (EQ), Christoph Brandner 43:58 (PP1), Dieter Kalt 47:01 (PP1), Thomas Vanek 52:48 (EQ), 54:08 (EQ) Goals 33:58 (EQ) Douglas Stienstra

18 April 2008 13:30

Great Britain

8–1 (2–0, 4–0, 2–1)

Netherlands

TWK Arena Attendance: 1,249

Game reference
	Gregory Owen 05:36 (EQ), 28:34 (PP1), 47:59 (EQ), Jonathan Phillips 11:15 (EQ), Jonathan Weaver 34:04 (EQ), Greg Chambers 36:25 (EQ), 40:36 (SH1), Thomas Watkins 37:45 (EQ) Goals 59:02 (PP2) Jacobus Teunissen

18 April 2008 17:00

Poland

4–1 (0–0, 2–1, 2–0)

South Korea

TWK Arena Attendance: 2,005

Game reference
	Krzysztof Zapała 26:27 (PP1), Marcin Jaros 37:15 (EQ), Jarosław Różański 50:54 (EQ), Sebastian Kowalówka 56:30 (EQ) Goals 24:18 (EQ) Kim Kyu Hun

18 April 2008 20:30

Kazakhstan

3–4 (1–1, 1–2, 1–1)

Austria

TWK Arena Attendance: 3,200

Game reference
	Lev Krutokhvostov 13:34 (EQ), Andrei Ogorodnikov 30:50 (EQ), Vladislav Kolesnikov 46:59 (EQ) Goals 01:14 (EQ) Martin Ulrich, 30:07 (SH1) Dieter Kalt, 35:43 (SH1) Daniel Welser, 56:51 (PP1) Christoph Brandner

19 April 2008 13:30

Netherlands

6–5 (OT) (2–1, 2–3, 1–1) (1–0)

South Korea

TWK Arena Attendance: 1,890

Game reference
	Casey van Schagen 03:56 (EQ), Marcel Kars 15:43 (EQ), Jamie Schaafsma 46:59 (EQ), 64:23 (EQ) Bradley Smulders 30:18 (EQ), Doug Stienstra 58:59 (EQ) Goals 02:52 (EQ), 33:30 (PP1) Min Ho Cho, 28:07 (EQ) Woo Sang Park, 37:11 (EQ) Yong Jun Lee, 53:05 (EQ) Ki Sung Kim

19 April 2008 17:00

Kazakhstan

3–1 (1–1, 0–0, 2–0)

Great Britain

TWK Arena Attendance: 2,400

Game reference
	Andrey Spiridonov 12:34 (EQ), 54:42 (EQ) Alexey Vyatkin 55:14 (EQ) Goals 06:28 (PP1) David Clarke

19 April 2008 20:30

Austria

7–3 (1–1, 5–0, 1–2)

Poland

TWK Arena Attendance: 3,200

Game reference
	Jeremy Rebek 11:31 (EQ), Dieter Kalt 23:13 (PP2), 26:45 (EQ), Gerhard Unterluggauer 23:36 (PP1), 50:04 (PP1), Daniel Welser 31:55 (EQ), Philipp Lukas 39:10 (EQ), Goals 13:00 (EQ) Marcin Kolusz, 45:00 (EQ) Maciej Urbanowicz, 51:53 (EQ) Adrian Labryga

The Group B tournament was played in Sapporo, Japan, from 13 to 19 April 2008.^[2]

Team	Qualification
Ukraine	Placed 16th in Top Division last year and were relegated
Hungary	Placed 2nd in Division I Group B last year
Japan	Hosts; placed 3rd in Division I Group B last year
Estonia	Placed 4th in Division I Group A last year
Lithuania	Placed 5th in Division I Group B last year
Croatia	Placed 1st in Division II Group A last year and were promoted

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Hungary	5	5	0	0	0	22	7	+15	15	Promoted to the 2009 Top Division
2	Ukraine	5	3	1	0	1	18	8	+10	11
3	Japan (H)	5	3	0	1	1	19	10	+9	10
4	Lithuania	5	2	0	0	3	9	21	−12	6
5	Croatia	5	0	1	0	4	5	15	−10	2
6	Estonia	5	0	0	1	4	9	21	−12	1	Relegated to the 2009 Division II

All times are local.

13 April 2008 13:00

Croatia

0–4 (0–1, 0–1, 0–2)

Ukraine

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 593

Game reference
	Goals 8:42 (EQ) Yuri Dyachenko 33:48 (PP2) Dmytro Tsuryl 52:06 (EQ) Vadym Shakhraychuk 52:27 (EQ) Oleksandr Karaulshchuk

13 April 2008 16:30

Estonia

3–5 (1–2, 2–1, 0–2)

Hungary

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 978

Game reference
	Maksim Ivanov 3:05 (PP1) Andrei Makrov 24:36 (PP2) Aleksander Polozov 34:03 (EQ) Goals 7:48 (EQ), 11:10 (PP1) Márton Vas 39:04 (EQ), 45:30 (EQ) Csaba Kovács 51:03 (EQ) Dániel Fekete

13 April 2008 20:00

Lithuania

0–5 (0–4, 0–0, 0–1)

Japan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 708

Game reference
	Goals 4:23 (PP1) Yosuke Kon 9:09 (PP1) Masahito Nishiwaki 12:55 (PP1) Sho Sato 18:02 (EQ) Darcy Mitani 41:28 (EQ) Ryuichi Kawai

14 April 2008 13:00

Ukraine

3–1 (0–0, 2–1, 1–0)

Estonia

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 195

Game reference
	Dmytro Tsyrul 28:58 (EQ) Yuri Navarenko 37:39 (SH1) Roman Salnikov 59:27 (ENG) Goals 22:15 (PP1) Andrei Makrov

14 April 2008 16:30

Hungary

6–0 (2–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Lithuania

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 708

Game reference
	Márton Vas 10:11 (PP1) Gábor Ocskay 11:31 (PP2), 58:37 (EQ) Krisztián Palkovics 29:22 (PP1) Csaba Kovács 36:31 (PS) Balázs Ladányi 59:31 (PP1) Goals

14 April 2008 20:00

Japan

3–0 (1–0, 0–0, 2–0)

Croatia

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 1,145

Game reference
	Darcy Mitani 8:34 (PP1) Daisuke Obara 41:05 (PP1) Takahito Suzuki 56:24 (PP1) Goals

16 April 2008 13:00

Croatia

2–1 (GWS) (0–1, 1–0, 0–0) (0–0, 1–0)

Estonia

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 153

Game reference
	Marko Lovrenčić 39:01 (PP1) Mario Novak 65:00 (GWS) Goals 13:30 (PP1) Ilja Urusev

16 April 2008 16:30

Ukraine

6–1 (4–0, 1–1, 1–0)

Lithuania

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 438

Game reference
	Vadym Shakhraychuk 0:47 (EQ) Kostiantyn Kasianchuk 8:15 (EQ) Andrei Sryubko 10:43 (PP1) Aleksandr Materukhin 16:01 (PS) Sergei Klimentiev 29:25 (EQ) Roman Salnikov 51:37 (EQ) Goals 35:47 (EQ) Tadas Kumeliauskas

16 April 2008 20:00

Hungary

4–2 (0–0, 3–1, 1–1)

Japan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 1,363

Game reference
	Balázs Ladányi 26:45 (EQ) Krisztián Palkovics 27:46 (EQ), 59:25 (ENG) Gábor Ocskay 33:50 (SH1) Goals 37:37 (EQ) Sho Sato 45:59 (EQ) Masahito Nishiwaki

18 April 2008 13:00

Estonia

1–4 (0–1, 1–1, 0–2)

Lithuania

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 238

Game reference
	Maksim Ivanov 38:00 (PP2) Goals 18:41 (EQ) Mindaugas Kieras 22:00 (PP1) Darius Lelėnas 44:08 (PP1) Dalius Vaiciukevičius 59:47 (ENG) Egidijus Bauba

18 April 2008 16:30

Hungary

3–0 (0–0, 1–0, 2–0)

Croatia

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 541

Game reference
	Imre Peterdi 35:01 (EQ) Krisztián Palkovics 46:01 (EQ), 49:45 (PP1) Goals

18 April 2008 20:00

Japan

2–3 (GWS) (0–0, 2–2, 0–0) (0–0, 0–1)

Ukraine

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 1,879

Game reference
	Suzuki Takahito 24:59 (EQ) Kamino Toru 36:49 (EQ) Goals Kostiantyn Kasianchuk 20:42 (PP1) Sergii Varlamov 39:09 (PP1) Dmytro Tsyrul 65:00 (GWS)

19 April 2008 13:00

Lithuania

4–3 (0–2, 1–0, 3–1)

Croatia

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 989

Game reference
	Dovydas Kulevičius 21:13 (PP1), 45:40 (EQ) Mindaugas Kieras 44:10 (PP2) Darius Lelėnas 58:18 (EQ) Goals Tomislav Čunko 14:35 (EQ) Veljko Žibret 15:20 (EQ) Krešimir Švigir 47:17 (EQ)

19 April 2008 16:30

Japan

7–3 (4–2, 1–0, 2–1)

Estonia

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 2,386

Game reference
	Saito Takeshi 2:14 (EQ), 41:43 (PP1) Aaron Keller 3:32 (EQ) Obara Daisuke 6:15 (PP1) Mitani Darcy 11:48 (EQ), 21:01 (PP1) Kon Yosuke 44:05 (EQ) Goals Maksim Ivanov 0:36 (EQ) Andrei Makrov 9:44 (EQ) Aleksei Sibirtsev 48:57 (PP1)

19 April 2008 20:00

Ukraine

2–4 (0–2, 2–1, 0–1)

Hungary

Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo Attendance: 2,544

Game reference
	Oleg Blagoi 37:04 (EQ) Vitaliy Semenchenko 37:39 (SH1) Goals 10:27 (EQ) János Vas 19:32 (PP1) Krisztián Palkovics 21:46 (EQ) Imre Peterdi 59:19 (SH1) Márton Vas