2013 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 2013 IIHF World U20 Championship was the 37th World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (WJHC). It was hosted in Ufa, Russia. It began on December 26, 2012, and ended with the gold medal game played on January 5, 2013. The United States defeated defending-champion Sweden 3–1 to win their third title, their first one since 2010. American goalie John Gibson was named MVP of the tournament.

Russia defeated Canada 6–5 in overtime to win the bronze medal, sending the Canadians home without a medal for the first time since 1998. Latvia was relegated to Division I and Norway was promoted to the 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Officials
The IIHF selected 12 referees and 10 linesmen to work the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship They were the following:


 * Referees
 * 🇺🇸 Harry Dumas
 * 🇷🇺 Roman Gofman
 * 🇨🇿 Pavel Hodek
 * 🇩🇪 Georg Jablukov
 * 🇷🇺 Sergei Kulakov
 * 🇫🇮 Jari Levonen
 * Didier Massy
 * 🇸🇪 Mikael Nord
 * 🇺🇸 Steve Patafie
 * 🇸🇪 Mikael Sjöqvist
 * 🇨🇦 Pat Smith
 * Daniel Sticker


 * Linesmen
 * 🇨🇦 Francois Dussureault
 * 🇺🇸 Tommy George
 * 🇸🇪 Tobias Haster
 * Raivis Jucers
 * Roman Kaderli
 * 🇫🇮 Masi Puolakka
 * 🇷🇺 Stanislav Raming
 * 🇪🇪 Anton Semjonov
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitry Sivov
 * 🇸🇰 Peter Stano

Top division
Each round will be a round-robin tournament, where the teams play each other once within their group. The Preliminary Round is divided into two groups: Group A and Group B, which includes five teams each. From each group, the top three teams will qualify for the playoffs; the 1st-ranked teams earn a direct trip to the Semifinals, while the 2nd and 3rd-ranked teams qualify for the Quarterfinals. The 4th and 5th-ranked teams have to play in the Relegation Round, where the three best teams qualify for the Top Division tournament the following year, with the last-placed team being relegated to the Division I tournament the following year. In the Semifinals, the directly-qualified Semifinalists face the winners from the Quarterfinals.

Group A
All times local (UTC+6)

Group B
All times local (UTC+6)

Relegation round
The results from matches between teams from the same group in the preliminary round are carried forward to this round.

All times local (UTC+6)

Final round

 * Bracket

Scoring leaders
Source: IIHF.com

Goaltending leaders
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Source: IIHF.com

Tournament awards
References: 1 2
 * Most Valuable Player
 * Goaltender: 🇺🇸 John Gibson


 * All-star team


 * Goaltender: 🇺🇸 John Gibson
 * Defencemen: 🇺🇸 Jacob Trouba, 🇺🇸 Jake McCabe
 * Forwards: 🇨🇦 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, 🇸🇪 Filip Forsberg, 🇺🇸 John Gaudreau


 * IIHF best player awards


 * Goaltender: 🇺🇸 John Gibson
 * Defenceman: 🇺🇸 Jacob Trouba
 * Forward: 🇨🇦 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Medalists
Source: 1 2 3

Group A
The Division I Group A competition was played from 9 December to 15 December 2012 in Amiens, France.

Participants
 * — Relegated from Top Division 2012
 * — Promoted from Division I B 2012
 * — Promoted from Division I B 2012
 * — Promoted from Division I B 2012
 * — Promoted from Division I B 2012
 * — Promoted from Division I B 2012

Final standings

Group B
The Division I Group B competition was played from 10 December to 16 December 2012 in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Participants
 * — Relegated from Division I A 2012
 * — Promoted from Division II A 2012
 * — Promoted from Division II A 2012
 * — Promoted from Division II A 2012
 * — Promoted from Division II A 2012
 * — Promoted from Division II A 2012

Final standings

Group A
The Division II Group A competition was played from 9 December to 15 December 2012 in Brasov, Romania.

Participants
 * — Relegated from Division I B 2012
 * — Promoted from Division II B 2012
 * — Promoted from Division II B 2012
 * — Promoted from Division II B 2012
 * — Promoted from Division II B 2012
 * — Promoted from Division II B 2012

Final standings

Group B
The Division II Group B competition was played from 12 January to 18 January 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Participants
 * — Relegated from Division II A 2012
 * — Promoted from Division III 2012
 * — Promoted from Division III 2012
 * — Promoted from Division III 2012
 * — Promoted from Division III 2012
 * — Promoted from Division III 2012

Final standings

Division III
The Division III competition was played from 14 January to 20 January 2013 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Participants
 * — Relegated from Division II B 2012

Final standings * were disqualified and all games counted as 5-0 wins for their opponents.