The 1999 IIHF World Championship was held in

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in Norway from 1 to 16 May. It was the top tier of the men's championships for that year.

Venues

World Championship Group A

Qualifying round

Three qualifying tournaments were played to establish the last five entrants to the World Championship. Two groups of four played in Europe, first and second place from each advanced, while the others were relegated to Group B. The winner of the "Far East" tournament advanced to the World Championship, while the losers played in Group C.

Group 1 (Austria)

Played 5–8 November 1998 in Klagenfurt. ''The United States and Austria advanced to the World Championship.''

Group 2 (Slovenia)

Played 5–8 November 1998 in

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and France advanced to the World Championship.''

Far East (Japan)

Played 4–6 September 1998 in

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. ''Japan advanced to the World Championship.''

First round

In each group, the top two nations advanced to the next round. Third place teams played a final round against each other to determine who escaped having to qualify for next year's tournament. Fourth place teams did not play further, they were automatically entered in qualifiers for next year's tournament.

Group 1

''Italy was relegated to the qualifiers for the 2000 IIHF World Championship.''

Group 2

''France was relegated to the qualifiers for the 2000 IIHF World Championship.''

Group 3

''Japan was relegated to the qualifiers for the 2000 IIHF World Championship.''

Group 4

was relegated to the qualifiers for the 2000 IIHF World Championship.''

Second round

Group 5

Group 6

Final Round

Each playoff match up consisted of a two-game series. If tied, the two teams would play an overtime-style mini game (10 minutes in duration for the semi-finals and 20 minutes in the final) to determine the winner, and then a shoot-out if no scoring occurred. The only mini-game to go to a shoot-out was the Czech versus Canada tiebreaker, with a 4 to 3 Czech victory. Note that the mini-games show up as a game played in the players statistics. The exception was for the bronze medal game which was just one game.

Semifinals

Match for third place

Final

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Consolation round 9–12 place

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and Norway were relegated to the qualifiers for the 2000 IIHF World Championship.''

Ranking and statistics

Tournament awards

*Best players selected by the directorate: **Best

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: Tommy Salo **Best

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: František Kučera **Best Forward: Saku Koivu **Most Valuable Player: Teemu Selänne *Media All-Star Team: **Goaltender: Tommy Salo **Defence: Jere Karalahti, Pavel Kubina **Forwards: Saku Koivu, Martin Ručinský, Teemu Selänne

Final standings

The final standings of the tournament according to

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: Places eleven through sixteen had to play in qualifying tournaments for entry into the 2000 tournament.

Scoring leaders

List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. Source

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Leading goaltenders

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IIHF honors and awards

The 1999 IIHF Hall of Fame induction ceremony has held in Lillehammer during the World Championships. Roman Neumayer of Germany was given the Paul Loicq Award for outstanding contributions to international ice hockey. IIHF Hall of Fame inductees *Austria: Sepp Puschnig *Canada: Roger Bourbonnais, Derek Holmes, Fran Huck, Barry MacKenzie, Jackie McLeod *Czech Republic:

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, Oldřich Machač, František Pospíšil *Finland: Harry Lindblad, Lasse Oksanen, Jorma Valtonen *Germany: Joachim Ziesche *Italy: Enrico Calcaterra *Japan: Yoshiaki Tsutsumi *Norway: Tore Johannessen *Russia: Arkady Chernyshev, Alexander Maltsev, Boris Mayorov *Slovakia: Ján Starší *Sweden: Sven Bergqvist, Rudolf Eklöw, Leif Holmqvist, Roland Stoltz *United States: Herb Brooks, Jim Craig, Mike Curran, Mark Johnson, Hal Trumble

Citations

References

Complete results
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