European Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The IIHF European Junior Championships were held from 1968 to 1998, with an unofficial tournament being held in 1967Dupalcey page 528. The tournament was played as a U19 tournament from 1968-1976. In 1977, the IIHF created the IIHF World Junior Championships, and the U19 championships became U18. The tournament was dominated by the Russians, Czechs, Swedes and Finns, winning all but two of the medals in the thirty-one years it was held.
The U18 Championships remained strong until 1999, when the new IIHF World U18 Championships were introduced, thus rendering the U18 European Championships redundant. Two European Divisions continued until 2000, but were tiered qualifiers, alongside Asian Divisions, with promotion and relegation to the World Group B.
==Champions==
===U19===
Year 	Gold 	Silver 	Bronze 	Host
1967 (unofficial)	Soviet Union 	Finland 	Sweden 	Soviet Union
1968 	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union 	Sweden 	Finland
1969 	Soviet Union 	Sweden 	Czechoslovakia	West Germany
1970 	Soviet Union 	Czechoslovakia	Sweden 	Switzerland
1971 	Soviet Union 	Sweden 	Czechoslovakia	Czechoslovakia
1972 	Sweden 	Soviet Union 	Czechoslovakia	Sweden
1973 	Soviet Union 	Sweden 	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union
1974 	Sweden 	Soviet Union 	Finland 	Switzerland
1975 	Soviet Union 	Czechoslovakia	Sweden 	France
1976 	Soviet Union 	Sweden 	Finland 	Czechoslovakia
===U18===
Year	Gold 	Silver 	Bronze 	Host
1977	Sweden 	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union 	West Germany
1978	Finland 	Soviet Union 	Sweden 	Finland
1979	Czechoslovakia	Finland 	Soviet Union 	Poland
1980	Soviet Union 	Czechoslovakia	Sweden 	Czechoslovakia
1981	Soviet Union 	Czechoslovakia	Sweden 	Soviet Union
1982	Sweden 	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union 	Sweden
1983	Soviet Union 	Finland 	Czechoslovakia	Norway
1984	Soviet Union 	Czechoslovakia	Sweden 	West Germany
1985	Sweden 	Soviet Union 	Czechoslovakia	France
1986	Finland 	Sweden 	Czechoslovakia	West Germany
1987	Sweden 	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union 	Finland
1988	Czechoslovakia	Finland 	Soviet Union 	Czechoslovakia
1989	Soviet Union 	Czechoslovakia	Finland 	Soviet Union
1990	Sweden 	Soviet Union 	Czechoslovakia	Sweden
1991	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union 	Finland 	Czechoslovakia
1992	Czechoslovakia	Sweden 	Russia 	Norway
1993	Sweden 	Russia 	Czech Republic	Poland
1994	Sweden 	Russia 	Czech Republic	Finland
1995	Finland 	Germany 	Sweden 	Germany
1996	Russia 	Finland 	Sweden 	Russia
1997	Finland 	Sweden 	Switzerland 	Czech Republic
1998	Sweden 	Finland 	Russia 	Sweden
==Medal Table==
Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Medals
  	 	 	 	
 	10 	7 	9 	26
  	 	 	 	
 	4 	5 	4 	13
 	0 	1 	0 	1
 	0 	0 	1 	1
==European Division I(Qualifier for World Group B)==
Year	Gold 	Silver 	Bronze 	Host
1999	Latvia 	Slovenia	Lithuania	Romania
2000	Kazakhstan	Estonia 	Slovenia 	Slovenia
==References==
*Year by year complete results with notes and commentary in french at Passionhockey.com
* Description of tournament and tabled results up to 1997.
Category:International Ice Hockey Federation
Category:Tournaments
Category:European Junior Championships