2010 IIHF World Championship
The 74th Ice Hockey World Championship for Men was held until May 23, 2010 in Germany of 7. The title fights were at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne (capacity 18,500 spectators ) and the SAP Arena in Mannheim ( 13,600 spectators ) discharged. The sold-out opening match between the national teams of Germany and the United States took place on May 7, 2010 in the Veltins - Arena in Gelsenkirchen before 77,803 spectators instead, setting a new attendance record in the sport of ice hockey Measurement with a 2-1 win over Russia in the final on 23 May in Cologne, the Czech national team was the 12th time world champion.
The non-qualified for the World Cup national teams played in three lower class divisions to two groups of six teams. It sat in the Division I Austria and Slovenia and qualify therefore for the Ice Hockey World Championship 2011. 's Division III first appeared on the national team of the United Arab Emirates.
- 2.1 Group A in Tilburg, The Netherlands 2.1.1 Division I winning team: Austria
- 2.2.1 Division I winning team: Slovenia
- 3.1 Group A in Naucalpan, Mexico 3.1.1 Division II winning team: Spain
- 3.2.1 Division II winning team: Estonia
- 4.1 Group A in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg 4.1.1 Division III winning team: Ireland
- 4.2.1 Preliminary
- 4.2.2 Final Round
Top Division
The World Cup of the top Division was held in the German cities of Cologne and Mannheim from 7 to 23 May 2010. It was played in the Lanxess Arena ( 18,500 seats) in Cologne and the SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany with 13,600 seats. The opening match was held at the Veltins- Arena in Gelsenkirchen instead, which had a unique capacity of 76 152 seats.
Award
For the hosting of the World Cup of 2010, four countries had been whittled - Germany, Sweden, Slovakia and Belarus.
Germany received on 13 May 2005 by the participants of the annual congress of the International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ) in Vienna the contract. In the vote, the application of the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB ) maintained by 89 votes against from Belarus ( 18 votes ). Slovakia and Sweden had withdrawn their applications before the vote., Germany was after 1936, 1955, 1975, 1983, 1993 and 2001 for the seventh time host a men 's World Cup.
Venues
The Lanxess Arena (formerly Cologne Arena) has 18,500 seats and is usually the venue for the Kölner Haie. Mannheim's SAP Arena, also DEL venue for the Adler Mannheim, offers 13,600 seats. The opening match was held in the specially refitted Veltins- Arena in Gelsenkirchen, the stadium of German football Bundesliga team FC Schalke 04 instead. This gave the game a capacity of 76 152 seats. The previous record was from October 2001 and amounted to 74 554 visitors in Spartan Stadium in East Lansing at an open -air college game between Michigan and Michigan State University.
Participant
At the tournament, the 13 best teams of the last year's World Cup, the winners of the two tournaments of Division I of the previous year, and Germany participated as hosts:
Group classification
The grouping of the first round was determined on the basis of the conclusion of the World Cup 2009 current IIHF World Ranking:
* In brackets the respective World Ranking is specified.
Preliminary round
Group A
Abbreviations: Pl = Place, Sp = Matches, W = Wins, OTS = Wins after Overtime ( Overtime ), OTN = Losses after Overtime, L = Loss Notes: Between round qualifier, relegation round qualifier
Group B
Abbreviations: Pl = Place, Sp = Matches, W = Wins, OTS = Wins after Overtime ( Overtime ), OTN = Losses after Overtime, L = Loss Notes: Between round qualifier, relegation round qualifier
Group C
Abbreviations: Pl = Place, Sp = Matches, W = Wins, OTS = Wins after Overtime ( Overtime ), OTN = Losses after Overtime, L = Loss Notes: Between round qualifier, relegation round qualifier
Group D
Abbreviations: Pl = Place, Sp = Matches, W = Wins, OTS = Wins after Overtime ( Overtime ), OTN = Losses after Overtime, L = Loss Notes: Between round qualifier, relegation round qualifier
Second round
Group E
Abbreviations: Pl = Place, Sp = Matches, W = Wins, OTS = Wins after Overtime ( Overtime ), OTN = Losses after Overtime, L = Loss Notes: Quarter Final Qualifier
Group F
Abbreviations: Pl = Place, Sp = Matches, W = Wins, OTS = Wins after Overtime ( Overtime ), OTN = Losses after Overtime, L = Loss Notes: Quarter Final Qualifier
Relegation round
Group G
Abbreviations: Pl = Place, Sp = Matches, W = Wins, OTS = Wins after Overtime ( Overtime ), OTN = Losses after Overtime, L = Loss Notes: Relegated to Division I
Final round
Quarterfinals
Semifinal
3rd Place Match
Final
Best Scorer
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, G = Goals, V = templates, Pts = Points, / - = Plus / Minus, SM = penalty minutes; Fat: Turnierbestwert
Best Goalkeeper
Abbreviations: Sp = Games, Min = Ice Age ( in minutes), GT = Goals against, SO = shutouts, GAA = Gegentorschnitt, Sv % = quota; Fat: Turnierbestwert
Final placements
The rankings result according to the following criteria:
- Locations 1 to 4: Results in the final and in the 3rd place match
- Places 5 to 8 ( losers of the quarter -finals ): by placement, then by points, then goal difference in the second round
- Places 9 to 12 ( 5th and 6th in the second round ): by placement, then by points, then goal difference in the second round
- Places 13 to 16 ( relegation round ): after placement
Title, ascent and descent
Awards
Player Trophies
All- Star team
Division I
Group A in Tilburg, The Netherlands
The Dutch Tilburg was from 19 to 25 April 2010 Host Group A, Division I. venue for all games was the IJssportcentrum Stappegoor with 2,500 seats.
Division I winning team: Austria
Group B in Ljubljana, Slovenia
The group B of Division I took from 17 to 23 April 2010 in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana instead. The matches were played in the 4,500 -seat Hala Tivoli.
Division I winning team: Slovenia
Ascent and Descent
Division II
Group A in Naucalpan, Mexico
The tournament Group A, Division II was until 17 April 2010 at the Mexico Naucalpan of 11 - not far from the capital, Mexico City - played out. The venue was the arena La Pista de Hielo Lomas Verdes with 3,500 seats.
Division II winning team: Spain
Group B in Narva, Estonia
The tournament in Group B of Division II was held in the Estonian town of Narva from 10 to 16 April 2010. The venue was the Narva jäähall with 1,500 seats.
Division II winning team: Estonia
Ascent and Descent
Division III
The Division III was first held in 2010 in two groups of four teams. The tournaments were held in Luxembourg and in Armenia.
Group A in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg
The tournament Group A Division III took place from April 14 to 17 in the 768 -seat Patinoire de Kockelscheuer in the Luxembourg Kockelscheuer, near the capital city of Luxembourg, instead. A total of 2,763 spectators attended the six tournament games.
For the first time took the national team of the United Arab Emirates participated in a World Championship.
Originally the tournament at the Olympic Hall Ano Liossia should be held in the Greek capital Athens, due to financial problems of the Greek Association of the tournament early February 2010 was transferred to Luxembourg in the short term.
Division III winning team: Ireland
Group B in Yerevan, Armenia
From 14 to 18 April 2010 in the Armenian capital Yerevan, the World Cup tournament in the group B of Division III was discharged. The games were held with 8,000 seats in the Sport and Concert Complex Karen Demirchian.
Preliminary round
Final round
1As Armenia players began playing when not eligible, all Armenian Games were subsequently canceled and scored 5-0 for the opponent.
Final of the tournament: