2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I

The 2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I was an international under-18 ice hockey competition organised by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Both Division I tournaments made up the second level of the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament was played in Minsk, Belarus, and the Group B tournament was played in Asiago, Italy. Belarus and Latvia won the Group A and B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to the Top Division of the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.
==Group A==
The Group A tournament was played in Minsk, Belarus at the Ice Palace from 6 to 12 April 2009.
;Final Standings
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	PTS
 	5 	4	1 	0 	0	23	6 	17 	14
 	5 	2	2 	0 	1	25	15	10 	10
 	5 	3	0 	1 	1	19	18	1 	10
 	5 	2	0 	1 	2	16	21	−5 	7
 	5 	1	0 	1 	3	13	16	−3 	4
 	5 	0	0 	0 	5	7 	29	−22	0
 
 is promoted to Top Division for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships 
 is relegated to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships
;Results
All times local
==Group B==
The Group B tournament was played in Asiago, Italy at PalaOdegar from 29 March to 4 April 2009.
;Final Standings
Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD 	PTS
 	5 	4	0 	0 	1	18	10	8 	12
 	5 	3	0 	1 	1	15	7 	8 	10
 	5 	2	2 	0 	1	21	20	1 	10
 	5 	1	1 	1 	2	15	17	−2 	6
 	5 	0	2 	1 	2	13	16	−3 	5
 	5 	0	0 	2 	3	8 	20	−12	2
 is promoted to Top Division for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships 
 is relegated to Division II for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships
;Results
All times local
===Leading scorers===
Player 	Country	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
Bartlomiej Neupauer	 	5 	5	6	11 	+8 	6
Kacper Guzik 	 	5 	6	4	10 	+7 	35
Benjamin Nemes 	 	5 	5	4	9 	+1 	0
Damian Kapica 	 	5 	3	6	9 	+8 	2
Kevin Puschnik 	 	5 	4	4	8 	+0 	4
Richard Hardi 	 	5 	2	6	8 	+0 	4
Janos Hari 	 	5 	3	4	7 	+3 	6
Dovydas Streckis 	 	5 	2	5	7 	+0 	10
Victor Barbero 	 	5 	5	1	6 	−1 	6
Nikolai Suslo 	 	5 	3	3	6 	+5 	6
===Top goaltenders===
Player 	Country	GP	Min 	GAA 	SV% 	SO
Lasse Jensen 	 	4 	230:48	0.50	.980	2
Andrei Novikov 	 	3 	150:19	0.80	.956	2
Bartlomiej Niesluchowski	 	3 	181:28	1.98	.934	1
Jānis Kalniņš 	 	3 	144:43	1.66	.933	1
Ren Yamaguchi 	 	4 	253:45	2.60	.929	0
==See also==
*2009 IIHF World U18 Championships
*2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II
*2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III
==External links==
*Official results and statistics from the International Ice Hockey Federation
**Division I – Group A
**Division I – Group B
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