# 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

The 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III was played with one group of six teams, as well as a two-team qualification tournament for the 2019 tournament. Israel won all their games and were promoted to Division II B. The team which placed first in the qualification tournament was expected to be promoted to Division III, swapping places with the sixth place team in Division III, but the 2019 organizers chose to make Division III a single tournament making these placings irrelevant.
The tournament was a round-robin tournament format, with two points allotted for a win, one additional point for a regulation win, and one point for an overtime or game winning shots loss.
To be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player could not be born earlier than 1998.
The main tournament was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, while the qualification was played in Cape Town, South Africa. The qualification was supposed to have the debut of the Turkmenistan national junior team, though they dropped out prior to it starting.

## Division III main tournament

The Division III main tournament was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 22 to 28 January 2018.

### Participating teams

| Team | Qualification |
| Australia | placed 6th in Division II B last year and were relegated |
| China | placed 2nd in Division III last year |
| Iceland | placed 3rd in Division III last year |
| New Zealand | placed 4th in Division III last year |
| Israel | placed 5th in Division III last year |
| Bulgaria | hosts; placed 6th in Division III last year |

### Final standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | Israel | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 11 | +14 | 15 | Promoted to the 2019 Division II B |
| 2 | China | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 12 | +18 | 9 | |
| 3 | Bulgaria (H) | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 24 | −2 | 9 | |
| 4 | Iceland | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 15 | +5 | 7 | |
| 5 | Australia | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 24 | −6 | 5 | |
| 6 | New Zealand | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 40 | −29 | 0 | |

### Match results

All times are local (UTC+2).

### Statistics
#### Top 10 scorers

| Pos | Player | Country | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM |
| 1 | Mark Revniaga | Israel | 5 | 11 | 4 | 15 | +7 | 6 |
| 2 | Rudi Ying | China | 5 | 8 | 6 | 14 | +10 | 4 |
| 3 | Daniel Dilkov | Bulgaria | 5 | 8 | 5 | 13 | +4 | 6 |
| 4 | Miroslav Vasilev | Bulgaria | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | +2 | 16 |
| 5 | Huang Qianyi | China | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | +14 | 4 |
| 5 | Axel Orongan | Iceland | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | −1 | 12 |
| 7 | Wang Jing | China | 5 | 3 | 8 | 11 | +9 | 22 |
| 8 | Tomer Aharonovich | Israel | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | +3 | 18 |
| 9 | Aiden Sillato | Australia | 5 | 2 | 8 | 10 | +1 | 6 |
| 10 | Thomas Steven | Australia | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +1 | 2 |
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes Source: IIHF

#### Goaltending leaders

(minimum 40% team's total ice time)
| Pos | Player | Country | MINS | GA | Sv% | GAA | SO |
| 1 | Raz Werner | Israel | 180:00 | 6 | 93.41 | 2.00 | 1 |
| 2 | Maksymillian Mojzyszek | Iceland | 165:51 | 7 | 91.14 | 2.53 | 0 |
| 3 | Yehonatan Reisinger | Israel | 120:00 | 5 | 90.38 | 2.50 | 0 |
| 4 | Zhang Yuhang | China | 153:57 | 5 | 87.80 | 1.95 | 0 |
| 5 | Arnar Hjaltested | Iceland | 134:32 | 8 | 85.19 | 3.57 | 0 |
TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF

### Awards
#### Best Players Selected by the Directorate

* Goaltender: Maksymillian Mojzyszek
* Defenceman: Konstantin Dikov
* Forward: Mark Revniaga

## Division III Qualification

The Division III Qualification tournament was played in Cape Town, South Africa, from 5 to 7 February 2018.

### Participating teams

| Team | Qualification |
| Chinese Taipei | placed 7th in Division III last year and were relegated |
| South Africa | hosts; placed 8th in Division III last year and were relegated |
The tournament originally included Turkmenistan, but they withdrew before the event began.

### Final standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | South Africa (H) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 | Promoted to the 2019 Division III |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 0 | Promoted to the 2019 Division III |

### Match results

All times are local (UTC+2).