The 2010 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I was the eighth IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I, an annual international inline hockey tournament. It took place between 28 June and 4 July in Sweden. The games were played in the Färjestads Ishall in Karlstad, with the medal games played in the Löfbergs Lila Arena in Karlstad. Austria won the final against Croatia.

Venues KarlstadKarlstad Färjestads IshallCapacity: 4,700 Löfbergs Lila ArenaCapacity: 8,647

Qualification The following eight nations qualified for the Division I tournament. One nation from Asia, one nation from Australia, four nations from Europe, and two nations from South America were represented.

Asia

Australia

Europe

South America

Division I Qualification tournaments The 2010 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I Qualification tournaments were held in July 2009. There were two qualification tournaments; an Americas qualifier and a European qualifier. The winners of each, Argentina and Croatia, advanced to the Division I tournament.

Americas qualifier became the Americas qualifier as the only other active member, had already qualified for the 2010 tournament.

European qualifier

The 2009 European Qualification tournament was held from July 24, 2009, to July 26, 2009. The winner of this tournament, Croatia, advanced to the next level of the IIHF World Championship, which is the Division I tournament. Games were played at the Winter Palace of Sports in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Four participating teams were placed in one group. After playing a round-robin, the top team advances to the 2010 Division I tournament.

Nations

Standings

Fixtures All times are local (UTC+3).

Seeding and groups

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the final standings at the 2009 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship, 2009 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I, and 2010 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I Qualification. The teams were grouped accordingly by seeding at the previous year's tournament (in parentheses is the corresponding seeding):

Group C (9) (12) (13) (16)

Group D (10) (11) (14) (15)

Rosters

Each team's roster for the 2010 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I consisted of at least 8 skaters (forwards, and defencemen) and 2 goaltenders, and at most 16 skaters and 3 goaltenders.

Preliminary round Eight participated teams were placed in the following two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top team in each group advanced to the Qualification Games. The last three teams in each group competed in the Playoff Round.

All games were played at the Färjestads Ishall in Karlstad.

Group C

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group D

All times are local (UTC+2).

Qualification games

Playoff round

Bracket

Quarter-finals All times are local (UTC+2).

Placement

5/6 placement Time is local (UTC+2).

7/8 placement Time is local (UTC+2).

Semi-finals All times are local (UTC+2).

Third place game Time is local (UTC+2).

Final Time is local (UTC+2).

Ranking and statistics

Standings The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF: Rk.Team1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Tournament Awards Best players selected by the directorate: Best Goalkeeper: Bernhard Starkbaum Best Defenseman: Viktor Tokaji Best Forward: Tomislav Grozaj

Scoring leaders List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals. If the list exceeds 10 skaters because of a tie in points, all of the tied skaters are shown. Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM POS Szilard Sandor 6 6 10 16 +2 10.5 FW Igor Jacmenjak 6 5 11 16 +1 9.0 DF Tomislav Grozaj 6 9 6 15 +3 0 FW Tamas Lencses 6 7 8 15 +8 3.0 DF Viktor Tokaji 6 2 10 12 +6 1.5 FW Alex Pearman 5 7 4 11 +10 3.0 FW Jose Guilardi 5 6 5 11 +5 4.5 DF Mario Novak 6 6 5 11 +7 1.5 FW Sean Jones 6 6 4 10 +3 6.0 FW Gergely Borbas 6 5 5 10 +2 0 FW Nathan Finney 5 5 5 10 +9 0 FW Daniel Oberkofler* 3 3 7 10 +12 0 FW Trpimir Piragic 6 3 7 10 −2 7.5 FW Facundo Vadra 5 3 7 10 −4 1.5 DFGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = PositionAsterisk (*) denotes that the player's team was demoted to Division I after the qualification games. Source: IIHF.com 18:01, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Leading goaltenders Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. Player TOI SA GA GAA Sv% SO Bernhard Starkbaum* 132:00 52 1 0.27 98.08 2 James Tanner 197:00 89 7 1.28 92.13 1 Jozef Ondrejka** 96:00 75 6 2.25 92.00 0 Mitsuhiro Oue 177:50 131 17 3.44 87.02 0 Krisztian Budai 189:50 147 22 4.17 85.03 0TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = ShutoutsAsterisk (*) denotes that the player's team was demoted to Division I after the qualification games. Two asterisks (**) denote that the player's team was promoted to the Championship Division after the qualification games. Source: IIHF.com 17:48, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

See also 2010 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship 2009 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I 2011 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship Division I

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