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1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

1995 IIHF World U20 Championship
1995 WJHC logo.jpg
Tournament details
Host country  Canada
Dates December 26 - January 4
Teams 8
Venue(s) 13 (in 13 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg  Canada (8th title)
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg  Russia
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg  Sweden
Fourth place  Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played 28
Goals scored 247 (8.82 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Canada Marty Murray & Canada Jason Allison (15 points)
1994
1996

The 1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1995 WJHC) was the 19th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was hosted in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada with games held throughout central Alberta. The host Canadians won their third straight gold medal, and its eighth overall, while Russia won silver, and Sweden the Bronze

The 1995 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

No team was relegated to Pool B as the tournament expanded to ten teams for 1996.

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Caen, Rouen, Le Havre, and Louviers France from December 27 to January 5. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. Two teams were promoted, no team was relegated because of the expansion of the top tier.

  Switzerland and  Slovakia were promoted to Pool A for 1996.


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