1983 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

The 1983 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1983 WJHC) was the 7th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Leningrad, Soviet Union between December 26, 1982 and January 4, 1983. The host Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 7–0 record.
==Tournament results==
The tournament was a round-robin format, with each team playing each of the other seven teams once each.
Rank	Team 	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	7 	7	0	0	50	15	14 		— 	4–3	7–3 	5–1 	5–3	7–2 	12–2	10–1
 	 	7 	5	1	1	43	22	11 		3–4 	— 	7–7 	4–2 	6–4	5–3 	9–0 	9–2
 	Canada	7 	4	2	1	39	24	9 		3–7 	7–7	— 	2–5 	4–2	6–3 	4–0 	13–0
4 	 	7 	4	3	0	35	23	8 		1–5 	2–4	5–2 	— 	4–1	4–6 	4–2 	15–3
5 	 	7 	3	4	0	28	29	6 		3–5 	4–6	2–4 	1–4 	— 	4–2 	6–5 	8–3
6 	 	7 	3	4	0	35	29	6 		2–7 	3–5	3–6 	6–4 	2–4	— 	9–1 	10–2
7 	 	7 	1	6	0	14	46	2 		2–12	0–9	0–4 	2–4 	5–6	1–9 	— 	4–2
8 	 	7 	0	7	0	13	69	0 		1–10	2–9	0–13	3–15	3–8	2–10	2–4 	—
==Scoring leaders==
Player 	Team 	G 	A	Pts
Vladimír Růžička	 	12	8	20
Herman Volgin 	 	11	3	14
Tomas Sandström 	 	9 	3	12
Oleg Starkov 	 	6 	6	12
Dave Andreychuk 	Canada	6 	5	11
==All-star team==
;Goaltender
: Matti Rautianen
;Defencemen
: Ilya Byakin
: Simo Saarinen
;Forwards
: Tomas Sandström
: Hermin Volgin
: Vladimír Růžička
==References==
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Category:1983 in hockey
Category:World Junior Championships