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1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Field	Value
tourney_name	IIHF World U20 Championship
year	1985
country	Finland
dates	December 23, 1984 – January 1, 1985
num_teams	8
venues	4
cities	4
type	ihj
winners	Canada
count	2
second	Czechoslovakia
third	Soviet Union
fourth	Finland
games	28
goals	230
attendance	61023
scoring_leader	FIN Esa Keskinen
points	20
prevseason	[1984](1984-world-junior-ice-hockey-championships)
nextseason	[1986](1986-world-junior-ice-hockey-championships)

The 1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1985 WJHC) was the ninth edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held mainly in Turku and Helsinki, Finland. Canada won the gold medal, its second championship, Czechoslovakia silver and the Soviet Union bronze.

Final standings

The 1985 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

Poland was relegated to Pool B for 1986.

Results

Scoring leaders

Rank	Player	G	A	Pts
1	Esa Keskinen	6	14	20
2	Esa Tikkanen	7	12	19
3	Brian Bradley	9	5	14
4	Peter Andersson	4	10	14
5	Mikko Mäkelä	11	2	13
6	Michal Pivoňka	9	4	13
7	Adam Creighton	8	4	12
8	Sergei Novosyolov	3	9	12
9	Alexander Semak	7	4	11
10	Ravil Khaidarov	6	3	9

Tournament awards

IIHF Directorate Awards	Media All-Star Team	Goaltender	Defencemen	Forwards
CAN Craig Billington	FIN Timo Lehkonen
FIN Vesa Salo	CAN Bobby Dollas
URS Mikhail Tatarinov
TCH Michal Pivoňka	TCH Michal Pivoňka
FIN Esa Tikkanen
FIN Mikko Mäkelä

Pool B

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Sapporo Japan from March 15 to 24. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

;Standings

Switzerland was promoted to Pool A and France was relegated to Pool C for 1986.

Pool C

This tournament took place in Belgium from February 22 to 27. It was played in Brussels, Heist-op-den-Berg, Liège, Geel, Deurne and Antwerp.

;Standings

Bulgaria was promoted to Pool B for 1986.

A. While Total Hockey lists Denmark in their standings, passionhockey.com states that this was a Netherlands team that does not count in the standings. The IIHF encyclopedia does not include Denmark in the 1985 standings.

References

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