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2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I

Tournament details
Host country	Germany
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Dates	7–13 June 2009
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Austria (1st title)
Runner-up	Great Britain
Third place	Brazil
Fourth place	Hungary
Tournament statistics
Games played	24
Goals scored	249 (10.38 per game)
Attendance	4,288 (179 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Martin Grabher-Meier
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The 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I was an international inline hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division I tournament ran alongside the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and took place between 7 and 13 June 2009 in Ingolstadt, Germany at the Saturn Arena and Saturn Rink 2. The tournament was won by Austria who upon winning gained promotion to the 2010 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship. While South Africa and Chinese Taipei were relegated to the continental qualifications after losing their relegation round games.

Qualification

Three teams attempted to qualify for the two remaining spots in the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I tournament. The other six nations automatically qualified based on their results from the 2008 Championship and 2008 Division I tournaments. Chinese Taipei qualified as the Asian-Oceanian qualifier. South Africa qualified after defeating Namibia on aggregate in a best-of-two qualification series. The games were held on 24 and 30 August 2008 in Namibia and South Africa with South Africa winning the first 3–2 and tying the second 1–1.

•  Australia - Finished fourth in 2008 World Championship Division I
•  Austria - Relegated from the 2008 World Championship
•  Brazil - Finished third in 2008 World Championship Division I
•  Chinese Taipei - Asian-Oceanian qualifier
•  Great Britain - Finished second in 2008 World Championship Division I
•  Hungary - Finished sixth in 2008 World Championship Division I
•  Japan - Finished fifth in 2008 World Championship Division I
•  South Africa - Winner of Namibia/South Africa qualification series

Seeding and groups

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and 2008 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship Division I, and the qualification tournaments. Division I's groups are named Group C and Group D while the 2009 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship use Group A and Group B, as both tournaments are held in Ingolstadt, Germany. The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parentheses is the corresponding seeding):

Preliminary round

Eight participating teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top two teams advance to the Qualifying round where they face-off against the two last-placed teams of the Groups A and B from the Top Division tournament for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs. Teams finishing second through to fourth advance to the Playoff round.

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group C

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Austria	3	3	0	0	0	34	6	+28	9	Qualifying round
Australia	3	1	1	0	1	23	14	+9	5	Playoff round
Japan	3	1	0	1	1	13	13	0	4
Chinese Taipei	3	0	0	0	3	8	45	−37	0

7 June 2009 13:00

Australia

5 – 4 (SO) (1–1, 1–2, 1–1, 1–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Japan

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 350

7 June 2009 17:00

Chinese Taipei

5 – 19 (1–5, 1–6, 2–5, 1–3)

Austria

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 390

8 June 2009 14:00

Australia

18 – 3 (3–0, 7–1, 4–2, 4–0)

Chinese Taipei

Saturn Arena Attendance: 65

8 June 2009 17:00

Austria

8 – 1 (2–1, 0–0, 4–0, 2–0)

Japan

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 150

9 June 2009 13:00

Japan

8 – 0 (1–0, 3–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Chinese Taipei

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 135

9 June 2009 17:00

Austria

7 – 0 (1–0, 3–0, 1–0, 2–0)

Australia

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 225

Group D

Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Brazil	3	3	0	0	0	16	9	+7	9	Qualifying round
Great Britain	3	2	0	0	1	17	10	+7	6	Playoff round
Hungary	3	1	0	0	2	19	18	+1	3
South Africa	3	0	0	0	3	6	21	−15	0

7 June 2009 15:00

Brazil

6 – 4 (2–0, 1–1, 0–3, 3–0)

Hungary

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 400

7 June 2009 19:00

South Africa

1 – 5 (0–3, 0–0, 1–1, 0–1)

Great Britain

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 63

8 June 2009 15:00

Brazil

5 – 3 (3–1, 1–1, 1–1, 0–0)

South Africa

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 102

8 June 2009 19:00

Great Britain

10 – 4 (2–1, 3–0, 1–3, 4–0)

Hungary

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 123

9 June 2009 15:00

Hungary

11 – 2 (4–1, 2–0, 2–1, 3–0)

South Africa

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 85

9 June 2009 19:00

Great Britain

2 – 5 (0–0, 0–1, 1–0, 1–4)

Brazil

Saturn Rink 2

Qualifying round

Austria and Brazil advanced to the qualifying round after finishing first in Group C and Group D respectively. Austria faced off against Canada, who finished last in Group A of the Top Division tournament, and Brazil was drawn against Slovakia, who finished last in Group B of the Top Division tournament, for a chance to participate in the Top Division playoffs. Both Austria and Brazil lost their matches and advanced to the Division I playoffs, while Canada and Slovakia advanced to the Top Division playoffs.

All times are local (UTC+2).

10 June 2009 16:00

Canada

4 – 3 (3–0, 0–1, 1–1, 0–1)

Austria

Saturn Arena Attendance: 238

10 June 2009 18:00

Slovakia

6 – 3 (1–0, 2–1, 1–1, 2–1)

Brazil

Saturn Arena Attendance: 265

Playoff round

Austria and Brazil advanced to the playoff round after losing their qualifying round matches. They were seeded alongside the six other teams of the tournament based on their results in the preliminary round. The four winning quarterfinalists advanced to the semifinals while the losing teams moved on to the relegation round. In the relegation round Chinese Taipei and South Africa lost their games to Australia and Japan respectively and were relegated to the continental qualifications. In the semifinals Great Britain defeated Brazil and Austria beat Hungary, both advancing to the gold medal game. After losing the semifinals Brazil and Hungary played off for the bronze medal with Brazil winning 4–3. Austria defeated Great Britain 2–1 in the gold medal game and earned promotion to the 2010 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

D1

Brazil

10

C4

Chinese Taipei

0

QF1

Brazil

3

QF2

Great Britain

5

D2

Great Britain

5

C3

Japan

2

SF1

Great Britain

1

SF2

Austria

2

C1

Austria

8

D4

South Africa

2

QF3

Austria

9

Bronze medal game

QF4

Hungary

1

C2

Australia

4

SF1

Brazil

4

D3

Hungary

5

SF2

Hungary

3

All times are local (UTC+2).

Quarterfinals

11 June 2009 13:00

Australia

4 – 5 (0–0, 1–0, 1–2, 2–3)

Hungary

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 189

11 June 2009 15:00

Great Britain

5 – 2 (0–0, 2–0, 0–1, 3–1)

Japan

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 193

11 June 2009 17:00

Austria

8 – 2 (2–0, 4–0, 0–2, 2–0)

South Africa

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 211

11 June 2009 19:00

Brazil

10 – 0 (0–0, 5–0, 4–0, 1–0)

Chinese Taipei

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 123

Relegation round

12 June 2009 13:00

Japan

9 – 2 (3–1, 3–0, 3–0, 0–1)

South Africa

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 65

12 June 2009 15:00

Australia

15 – 7 (5–1, 4–0, 3–1, 3–5)

Chinese Taipei

Saturn Rink 2

Semifinals

12 June 2009 17:00

Brazil

3 – 5 (0–1, 0–2, 2–1, 1–1)

Great Britain

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 175

12 June 2009 19:00

Austria

9 – 1 (4–0, 2–0, 2–0, 1–1)

Hungary

Saturn Rink 2 Attendance: 123

Bronze medal game

13 June 2009 12:00

Brazil

4 – 3 (0–2, 2–0, 1–1, 1–0)

Hungary

Saturn Arena Attendance: 118

Gold medal game

13 June 2009 14:00

Austria

2 – 1 (0–0, 2–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Great Britain

Saturn Arena Attendance: 500

Ranking and statistics

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:

Rk.	Team
	Austria
	Great Britain
	Brazil
4.	Hungary
5.	Australia
6.	Japan
7.	Chinese Taipei
8.	South Africa

Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the Division I statistics.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	POS
Martin Grabher-Meier	6	7	11	18	+17	1.5	F
Harry Lange	6	5	12	17	+15	0.0	F
Peter Matus	5	5	10	15	+11	6.0	F
Raphael Herburger	6	6	8	14	+13	1.5	F
Mario Altmann	6	6	7	13	+11	1.5	D
Alexander Feichtner	6	8	4	12	+11	1.5	F
Sean Jones	5	7	5	12	+10	1.5	F
Szilard Sandor	6	4	8	12	+9	6.0	F
Diego Araujo	6	3	9	12	+9	1.5	D
Mark Brunnegger	6	8	3	11	+10	3.0	D
Philip Hamer	6	7	4	11	+10	6.0	F
Gergely Borbas	6	4	7	11	+8	4.5	F
Christian Dolezal	5	3	8	11	+10	3.0	F
Youssef Riener	6	1	10	11	+10	0.0	D

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Games from the qualifying round do not count towards the Division I statistics.

Player	MIP	SOG	GA	GAA	SVS%	SO
Bernhard Starkbaum	192:00	91	3	0.56	96.70	1
James Tanner	216:00	117	12	2.00	89.74	0
Shingo Imagawa	161:00	89	11	2.46	87.64	0
Thiago Arauja	216:00	93	14	2.33	84.95	0
Attila Szoke	199:50	153	24	4.32	84.31	0

References

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External links

• Division I at IIHF.com

• 2009 in German sport
• 2009 in inline hockey
• IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship
• International sports competitions hosted by Germany
• Sports competitions in Ingolstadt
• June 2009 sports events in Germany
• Inline hockey in Germany