2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

The 2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division III consisted of eight teams split into two groups of four. The team that won the Division will be promoted to Division IIB for 2020. It was held from 14 to 20 January 2019.
To be eligible as a junior, a player cannot be born earlier than 1999.
Bulgarian forward Miroslav Vasilev became the all-time leading scorer in Division III play with 42 points.
==Participants==
Team	Qualification
 	placed 6th in Division IIB last year and were relegated
 	placed 2nd in Division III last year
 	placed 3rd in Division III last year
 	placed 4th in Division III last year
 	placed 5th in Division III last year
 	placed 6th in Division III last year
 	placed 1st in Division III Qualification last year
 	placed 2nd in Division III Qualification last year
==Preliminary round==
All times are local (UTC±0).
===Group A===
===Group B===
==Placement round==
===Bracket===
===5–8th place semifinals===
===Seventh place game===
===Fifth place game===
==Playoff round==
===Bracket===
===Semifinals===
===Bronze medal game===
===Gold medal game===
==Final ranking==
	Promoted to 2020 IIHF U20 Division II B
Rank 	Team
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==Statistics==
===Top 10 scorers===
Pos	Player 	Country	GP	G 	A 	Pts	+/-	PIM
1 	Yan Juncheng 	 	5 	7 	13	20 	+19	0
2 	Huang Qianyi 	 	5 	11	8 	19 	+17	32
3 	Wang Jing 	 	5 	5 	10	15 	+16	0
4 	Zhang Dehan 	 	5 	1 	14	15 	+19	0
5 	Guo Jianing 	 	5 	7 	7 	14 	+15	2
6 	Axel Orongan 	 	5 	5 	8 	13 	+6 	14
7 	Heidar Kristveigarson	 	5 	8 	4 	12 	+6 	0
8 	Miroslav Vasilev 	 	4 	3 	9 	12 	+4 	38
9 	Jeremy Vasquez 	 	5 	4 	5 	9 	+3 	4
10 	Fatih Taygar 	 	5 	3 	6 	9 	+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 	Wu Siming 	 	240:00	4 	93.94	1.00	0
2 	Huang Sheng-Chun 	 	283:23	16	93.73	3.39	0
3 	Maksymilian Mojzyszek	 	179:00	7 	89.86	2.34	1
4 	Ivan Stoynov 	 	283:32	17	89.76	3.60	0
5 	Burak Gümüşlü 	 	300:00	20	88.30	4.00	1
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: Hung Sheng-Chun 
* Defenceman: Zhang Dehan
* Forward: Heidar Kristveigarson
==External links==
*IIHF.com
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