2010 IIHF World Championship Division I

The 2010 IIHF World Championship Division I was an international Ice Hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was contested from April 17–25, 2010. Participants in this tournament were separated into two separate tournament groups. The Group A tournament was contested in Tilburg, Netherlands. Group B's games were played in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Austria won the Group A tournament while Slovenia won the Group B tournament to earn promotion to the Top Division of the 2011 IIHF World Championship. Serbia and Croatia finished last in each group and will be relegated to Division II at the 2011 World Championships. Spain and Estonia earned promotion from the 2010 IIHF World Championship Division II and will replace Serbia and Croatia in Division I in 2011.
==Participants==
===Group A===
Team	Qualification
 	Placed 14th in the Championship division and were relegated in 2009.
 	Placed 2nd in Division I-Group B in 2009.
 	Placed 3rd in Division I-Group A in 2009.
 	Placed 4th in Division I-Group A in 2009.
 	Host, Placed 5th in Division I-Group B in 2009.
 	Placed 1st in Division II-Group A and were promoted in 2009.
===Group B===
Team	Qualification
 	Placed 16th in the Championship division and were relegated in 2009.
 	Host, Placed 2nd in Division I-Group A in 2009.
 	Placed 3rd in Division I-Group B in 2009.
 	Placed 4th in Division I-Group B in 2009.
 	Placed 5th in Division I-Group A in 2009.
 	Placed 1st in Division II-Group B and were promoted in 2009.
==Group A tournament==
===Standings===
	Promoted to Championship for 2011
	Relegated to Division II for 2011
 	Team	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	 	5	5	0	0	0	28	5 	23 	15
2	 	5	4	0	0	1	39	12	27 	12
3	 	5	3	0	0	2	17	7 	10 	9
4	 	5	1	1	0	3	11	19	-8 	5
5	 	5	1	0	0	4	19	33	-14	3
6	 	5	0	0	1	4	8 	46	-38	1
===Tournament Awards===
; Best players selected by the directorate: 
*Best Goalkeeper: Yutaka Fukufuji 
*Best Forward: Kostiantyn Kasianchuk 
*Best Defenseman: Matthias Trattnig 
===Fixtures===
All times local.
===Scoring leaders===
List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player 	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM
Kostiantyn Kasianchuk	5 	6	7	13 	+9 	6
Andri Mikhnov 	5 	3	9	12 	+7 	2
Oliver Setzinger 	5 	1	9	10 	+8 	0
Oleksandr Materukhin 	5 	6	3	9 	+8 	12
Thomas Koch 	5 	5	4	9 	+8 	0
Tadas Kumeliauskas 	5 	5	4	9 	0 	33
Matthias Trattnig 	5 	3	6	9 	+10	4
Oleg Timchenko 	5 	2	7	9 	+7 	14
Vadym Shakhraychuk 	5 	4	4	8 	+9 	6
Daniel Welser 	5 	4	4	8 	+9 	2
Takahito Suzuki 	5 	3	5	8 	+3 	4
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes; POS = Position
Source: IIHF.com
===Leading goalkeepers===
Only the top five goalkeepers, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.
Player 	TOI 	SA 	GA	GAA 	Sv% 	SO
Masahito Haruna 	120:00	41 	1 	0.50	97.56	1
Reinhard Divis 	300:00	103	5 	1.00	95.15	1
Yutaka Fukufuji 	176:47	98 	6 	2.04	93.88	0
Kostiantyn Simchuk	199:50	77 	6 	1.80	92.21	0
Phil Groeneveld 	211:34	134	12	3.40	91.04	0
TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF.com
==Group B tournament==
===Standings===
	Promoted to Championship for 2011
	Relegated to Division II for 2011
 	Team	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	 	5	4	1	0	0	29	10	19 	14
2	 	5	4	0	0	1	21	6 	15 	12
3	 	5	3	0	0	2	15	12	3 	9
4	 	5	2	0	1	2	10	10	0 	7
5	 	5	1	0	0	4	13	21	-8 	3
6	 	5	0	0	0	5	4 	33	-29	0
===Tournament Awards===
; Best players selected by the directorate: 
*Best Goalkeeper: Stephen Murphy 
*Best Forward: Žiga Jeglič 
*Best Defenseman: Andras Horvath 
===Fixtures===
All times local.
===Scoring leaders===
List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player 	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM
Žiga Jeglič 	5 	2	9	11 	+5 	0
Rok Tičar 	5 	7	3	10 	+4 	2
Kim Ki-sung 	5 	3	5	8 	+3 	2
Jan Mursak 	5 	5	2	7 	+4 	2
Song Dong-hwan	5 	4	3	7 	+5 	2
Jan Urbas 	5 	2	5	7 	+5 	6
Balázs Ladányi	5 	2	4	6 	+2 	0
Marcel Rodman 	5 	1	5	6 	+4 	6
Mitja Šivic 	5 	1	5	6 	+7 	6
Márton Vas 	5 	4	1	5 	+3 	0
Kim Woo-jae 	5 	1	4	5 	+2 	4
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes; POS = Position
Source: IIHF.com
===Leading goalkeepers===
Only the top five goalkeepers, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.
Player 	TOI 	SA 	GA	GAA 	Sv% 	SO
Zoltán Hetényi 	280:00	131	6 	1.29	95.52	2
Stephen Murphy 	240:20	133	9 	2.25	93.23	0
Krzysztof Zborowski	279:54	122	9 	1.93	92.62	1
Andrej Hočevar 	291:03	110	10	2.06	90.91	0
Vanja Belić 	300:00	223	33	6.60	85.20	0
TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots Against; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: IIHF.com
==Team Photos==
2010Austria.jpg|Austria
2010Japan.jpg|Japan
2010Netherlands.jpg|Netherlands
== IIHF Broadcasting rights ==
Country	Broadcaster
 	ORF Sport Plus
 	Sport 1
 	Polsat Sport
 	Arena Sport
 	RTV Slovenia
 	Sport 1
==References==
==External links==
*International Ice Hockey Federation
Category:2010 in hockey
Category:IIHF World Championships