The 2009 Men's U-19 World Floorball Championships were the fifth world championships in men's U-19
floorball
Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role ...
. The tournament took place over May 6–10, 2009 in
Turku, Finland.
Sweden
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defeated
Finland 8–3 in the final match to win the men's under-19 world floorball championship for the 3rd consecutive year.
All matches took place at the
Turkuhalli
Gatorade Center (formerly HK Areena, Elysée Arena, Typhoon Arena, but commonly referred to as Turkuhalli in Finnish and Åbohallen in Swedish) is a multi-functional indoor arena in the district of Artukainen in Turku, Finland. Opened in November ...
in
Turku, Finland.
Tournament information
Facts and history
The 2009 Men's U-19 World Floorball Championships were the first men's over-19 floorball championships that were held in the month of May, after the
International Floorball Federation (IFF) changed their international tournament calendar format in 2008. Previously, the tournament was hosted in the months of either October or November.
Sweden
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came into the tournament as two-time defending champions, after having won the world championship in both
2005
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and
2007
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. The Swedish team had also previously won a championship in
2001
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, but did not defend their title in
2003
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, as they would lose in the final to rivals,
Finland. The
Czech Republic,
Finland,
Sweden
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, and
Switzerland
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remain the only teams to have captured a women's under-19 world floorball championship medal.
Championship results
Preliminary round
Group A
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=May 7, 2009
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Group B
=May 6, 2009
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=May 7, 2009
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=May 8, 2009
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Playoffs
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
World championship match
Placement round
7th place match
5th place match
Leading scorers
Media All-Star Team
Ranking and statistics
Official 2009 A-Division Rankings according to the
International Floorball Federation
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Denmark is relegated to the B-Division at the
2011 Men's U-19 World Floorball Championships
See also
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2009 Men's U-19 World Floorball Championships B-Division
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2009 Men's U-19 World Floorball Championships qualifying
External links
Official WebsiteStandings & StatisticsStandings & Statistics – Qualifying
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Mens Under-19 World Floorball Championships, 2009
Floorball
Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role ...
2009 in Finnish sport
International sports competitions in Turku
May 2009 sports events in Europe
2000s in Turku