A day before the group round came to a close at the 2023 World Championship, both relegation spots to Division IA in 2023 were confirmed, with Hungaryย and Slovenia gaining the dubious distinction of being sent down after both gained promotion in 2022, with Slovenia finishing winless while Hungaryย was eliminated in a sudden-death shootout to Austria.
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๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง Poland, Great Britain Promoted To 2024 World Championship
The Division IA World Championship tournament in Nottingham, England saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2024 World Championship in Ostrava and Prague, Czechiaย locked up on the final day of competition, with hosts Great Britainย and Poland both clinching their returns to the Top Division.
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๐ธ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐บ Slovenia, Hungary Promoted To 2023 World Championship
The Division IA World Championship tournament in Ljubljana saw the top two spots for promotion to the 2023 World Championship locked up a day before the tournament wrapped, with hosts Slovenia and Hungary both locking up returns to the Top Division.
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๐ซ๐ท ๐ฆ๐น France, Austria Relegated From World Championship
Both relegation games at the 2019 World Championship came down to thrilling and surprising finishes, with Great Britain and Italy, both promoted from Division IA in 2018, upsetting France and Austria respectively to send them down to Division IA in 2020, while each punching their ticket back to the Top Division in Switzerland.
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๐ฐ๐ฟ ๐ง๐พ Kazakhstan, Belarus Promoted To 2020 World Championship
The Division IA World Championship tournament saw the return of two powerhouses to the Top Division in 2020, with Belarus and hosts Kazakhstan clinching spots for next year in Switzerland at the 2019 tournament in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
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IHLC Team Profiles – ๐ท๐ด Romania
๐ท๐ด ROMANIA (ROU) Menโs National Ice Hockey Team (1931-)
Romania first competed for the IHLC in 1934, one of only three games in which they played for the IHLC. This match was also their closest attempt, as they went on to be crushed byย Britainย in 1937, and by Czechoslovakia in their third and most recent game, forty years later in 1977. Theย Tricoloriย have failed to qualify for the World Championship’s top pool since 1977, working to claw their way out of Division IB in the last few years.
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