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1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1976 IIHF World U20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Finland
Dates December 26, 1975 –
January 1, 1976
Teams 5
Venue(s) (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg  Soviet Union
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg  Canada
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg  Czechoslovakia
Fourth place  Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played 10
Goals scored 78 (7.8 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Soviet Union Valeri Evstifeev
(8 points)
1975
1977

The 1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were between December 26, 1975, and January 1, 1976, in Tampere, Turku, Pori and Rauma Finland. The Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 4–0 record. This was the third edition of the IIHF World U20 Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records. Canada was represented by a club team, the Sherbrooke Castors, while the other four nations were represented by teams of their top under-20 players. The United States did not participate in this tournament, after having competed in the 1974 and 1975 tournaments.

The tournament was a round-robin format, with each team playing each of the other four teams once each.


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