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 RankPlayerCountry 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 Craig Billington Timo Lehkonen Defencemen Vesa Salo Bobby Dollas Mikhail Tatarinov Forwards Michal Pivoňka Michal Pivoňka Esa Tikkanen 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
World Junior Hockey Championships History: 1985 - Helsinki, Finland at TSN Results at Passionhockey.com