The 2020 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship was the 13th Women's U18 World Championship in ice hockey.

Top Division

Match officials

9 referees and 9 linesmen were selected for the tournament. ;Referees * Henna Åberg * Darya Abrosimova * Gabrielle Ariano-Lortie * Kelly Cooke * Drahomíra Fialova * Elena Ivanova * Gabriela Malá * Vanessa Morin * Svenja Strohmenger ;Linesmen * Liv Andersson * Magdaléna Čerhitová * Stephanie Cole * Polina Danilova * Marine Dinant *

Kendall Hanley Kendall Hanley (born ) is an American ice hockey official, currently serving as a linesman in the American Hockey League (AHL). She was the recipient of USA Hockey’s 2020–21 Ben Allison Award in recognition of her dedication on the ice and r ...

* Amy Lack * Justine Todd * Wang Hui

Preliminary round

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Group A

Group B

Relegation round

The third and fourth placed team from Group B played a

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series to determine the relegated team.

Final round

Teams were reseeded for the semifinals in accordance with the following ranking: #tier of the group; #position in the group.

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Fifth place game

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Final ranking

Statistics

Scoring leaders

''GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes''
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Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time) ''TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA =

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; SA = Shots against; Sv% = Save percentage; SO =

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Awards

*Best players selected by the Directorate: **Best

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: Anna Alpatova **Best

Defenceman Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the la ...

Nelli Laitinen Nelli Laitinen (born 29 April 2002) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national team, currently playing in the NCAA Division I with the Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey program. Playing career Laitinen began h ...

**Best

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Kristi Shashkina Kristi Yuryevna Shashkina (; born 9 January 2003) is an Estonian-Russian ice hockey player and member of the Russia women's national ice hockey team, Russian national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) with D ...

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**Goaltender: Anna Alpatova **Defencemen:

Sanni Rantala Sanni Rantala (born 8 July 2002) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Naisten Liiga (NSML) with KalPa Naiset. Rantala won a bronze medal in the women's ice hockey tournamen ...

/ Kendall Cooper **Forwards:

Lacey Eden Lacey Eden (born May 2, 2002) is an American women's ice hockey player for Wisconsin and member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. Playing career Eden began her collegiate career for the Wisconsin Badgers during the 2020–2 ...

/ Laura Zimmermann /

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Division I

Group A

The tournament was held in

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from 3 to 9 January 2020.

Group B

The tournament was held in

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

from 2 to 8 January 2020.

Division II

Group A

The tournament was held in

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from 25 to 28 January 2020.

Group B

The tournament was held in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

from 28 January to 2 February 2020. ;Finals Bracket

References

External links

Official website
{{Women's ice hockey tournaments IIHF World Women's U18 Championships 2019–20 in women's ice hockey

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