1998 World Championship

The 1998 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships were held in Switzerland from May 1-17, 1998. The format expanded to 16 teams for the first time. The teams were divided into four groups of four with the top two teams in each advancing to the next round. The two groups of four then played a round robin with the top two teams in each moving on to the semi-finals. The semi-finals were a two game total goals for series as was the final.
== Group A ==
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	3	0	0	20	5 	6
 	3 	2	1	0	12	10	4
 	3 	1	2	0	8 	13	2
 	3 	0	3	0	7 	19	0
Czech Republic 8-2 Japan
Belarus 4-2 Germany
Belarus 2-4 Czech Republic
Germany 5-1 Japan
Japan 4-6 Belarus
Czech Republic 8-1 Germany
Czech Republic and Belarus advanced to the next round, Germany is sent to the Qualification round.
=== Group B ===
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	2	0	1	12	5 	5
 	3 	2	0	1	9 	4 	5
 	3 	1	2	0	8 	8 	2
 	3 	0	3	0	3 	15	0
Canada 5-1 Austria
Italy 1-2 Slovakia
Slovakia 2-2 Canada
Italy 5-1 Austria
Austria 1-5 Slovakia
Canada 5-2 Italy
Canada and Slovakia advanced to the next round. Italy is sent to the Qualification round.
=== Group C ===
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	3	0	0	16	4 	6
 	3 	1	2	0	9 	10	2
 	3 	1	2	0	7 	11	2
 	3 	1	2	0	5 	12	2
USA 5-2 Switzerland
Sweden 6-1 France
France 3-1 USA
Sweden 4-2 Switzerland
USA 1-6 Sweden
Switzerland 5-1 France
Sweden and Switzerland advanced to the next round. USA is sent to the Qualification round.
=== Group D ===
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	3	0	0	19	11	6
 	3 	2	1	0	12	4 	4
 	3 	1	2	0	12	15	2
 	3 	0	3	0	6 	19	0
Russia 8-4 Kazakhstan
Finland 6-0 Latvia
Latvia 5-7 Russia
Finland 4-0 Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan 2-7 Latvia
Russia 4-2 Finland
Russia and Finland advanced to the next round. Latvia is sent to the Qualification round.
=== Qualification Round ===
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	2	0	1	9 	3 	5
 	3 	1	0	2	9 	5 	4
 	3 	0	1	2	5 	10	2
 	3 	0	2	1	3 	8 	1
USA 1-1 Germany
Italy 1-1 Latvia
Italy 4-0 USA
Germany 0-5 Latvia
Germany 4-4 Italy
Latvia 3-2 USA
==Classification Round==
==== Group E ====
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	3	0	0	10	2 	6
 	3 	1	1	1	8 	6 	3
 	3 	1	1	1	10	12	3
 	3 	0	3	0	5 	13	0
Sweden 1-0 Finland
Belarus 2-6 Canada
Canada 3-3 Finland
Sweden 2-1 Belarus
Canada 1-7 Sweden
Finland 5-2 Belarus
Sweden and Finland advanced to the semi-finals.
=== Group F ===
　 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
 	3 	2	0	1	6 	3 	5
 	3 	1	1	1	6 	6 	3
 	3 	1	1	1	10	7 	3
 	3 	0	2	1	2 	8 	1
Slovakia 0-1 Czech Republic
Russia 2-4 Switzerland
Czech Republic 3-1 Switzerland
Russia 6-1 Slovakia
Czech Republic 2-2 Russia
Switzerland 1-1 Slovakia
Czech Republic and Switzerland advanced to the semi-finals.
=== Semi-Finals ===
Sweden 4-1 Switzerland
Switzerland 2-7 Sweden
Czech Republic 1-4 Finland
Finland 2-2 Czech Republic
=== Bronze Medal Match ===
Czech Republic 4-0 Switzerland
=== Gold Medal Match ===
Finland 0-1 Sweden
Sweden 0-0 Finland
=== Medal Standings ===
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==Team Photos==
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=Team rosters=
===Sweden===
1. 
Goaltenders: Tommy Salo, Johan Hedberg, Thomas Eriksson.
Defenders: Mattias Öhlund, Kim Johnsson, Jan Mertzig, Niclas Hävelid, Mattias Norström, Hans Jonsson, Johan Tornberg.
Forwards: Christer Olsson, Anders Huusko, Mikael Johansson, Tommy Westlund, Mats Sundin, Nichlas Falk, Jonas Bergqvist, Mikael Renberg, Peter Forsberg, Ulf Dahlén, Peter Nordström, Patric Kjellberg, Jörgen Jönsson, Fredrik Modin, Niklas Sundström.
Coaches: Kent Forsberg, Tommy Tomth.
=== Finland===
2. 
Goaltenders: Ari Sulander, Jarmo Myllys, Vesa Toskala.
Defencemen: Kimmo Timonen, Jere Karalahti, Marko Kiprusoff, Toni Lydman, Janne Laukkanen, Petteri Nummelin, Antti-Jussi Niemi, Kaj Linna.
Forwards: Raimo Helminen, Ville Peltonen, Sami Kapanen, Antti Törmänen, Juah Ikonen, Mika Alatalo, Mikko Eloranta, Kimmo Rintanen, Jarkko Ruutu, Joni Lius, Olli Jokinen, Marko Tuomainen, Toni Mäkiaho.
Coaches: Hannu Aravirta, Esko Nokelainen, Jari Kaarela.
=== Czech Republic===
3. 
Goaltenders: Milan Hnilička, Roman Čechmánek, Martin Prusek.
Defencemen: František Kučera, František Kaberle, Jiří Vykoukal, Libor Procházka, Robert Kántor, Jiří Šlégr, Jiří Veber, Václav Burda.
Forwards: Radek Bělohlav, Pavel Patera, Martin Procházka, David Výborný, Ladislav Lubina, Jiří Dopita, Marián Kacíř, Jan Hlaváč, Robert Reichel, Petr Sýkora, Josef Beránek, David Moravec, Patrik Eliáš, Milan Hejduk.
Coaches: Ivan Hlinka, Slavomír Lener, Vladimír Martinec.
=== Russia===
5. 
Goaltenders: Yegor Podomatsky, Maxim Sokolov, Oleg Shevtsov.
Defencemen: Marat Davydov, Sergei Fokin, Dmitri Yerofeyev, Dmitri Yushkevich, Daniil Markov, Andrei Skopintsev, Sergei Zhukov.
Forwards: Sergei Berezin, Oleg Belov, Aleksei Chupin, Alexei Kovalev, Viktor Kozlov, Alexei Kudashov, Aleksey Morozov, Andrei Nazarov, Sergei Nemchinov, Sergei Petrenko, Oleg Petrov, Vitali Prokhorov, Mikhail Sarmatin.
Coach: Alexander Yakushev.
=== Slovakia===
7. 
Goaltenders: Pavol Rybár, Miroslav Šimonovič, Miroslav Michalek.
Defencemen: Jerguš Bača, Róbert Pukalovič, Ľubomír Višňovský, Ľubomír Sekeráš, Stanislav Jasečko, Ivan Droppa, Róbert Švehla.
Forwards: Roman Stantien, Peter Pucher, Jozef Stümpel, René Pucher, Jozef Voskár, Zdeno Cíger, Branislav Jánoš, Igor Rataj, Ján Pardavý, Peter Bartoš, Radoslav Kropáč, Richard Kapuš, Jozef Daňo.
Coaches: Ján Šterbák, František Hossa.
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