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Association | Belarus Ice Hockey Federation |
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Head coach | Pavel Perepekhin |
Assistants | Andrei Kudin Andrei Zalivako |
Captain | Artur Gavrus |
Most points | Andrei Kostitsyn (21) |
IIHF code | BLR |
First international | |
Kazakhstan 4 - 0 Belarus (Minsk, Belarus; November 10, 1992) | |
Biggest win | |
Belarus 19 - 0 Lithuania (Minsk, Belarus; November 12, 1992) | |
Biggest defeat | |
Russia 12 - 1 Belarus (Podolsk, Russia; December 27, 2000) | |
IIHF World U20 Championship | |
Appearances | 28 (first in 1993) |
Best result | 9th (2001, 2002) |
International record (W–L–T) | |
50–47–6 |
The Belarusian men's national under-20 ice hockey team is the national under-20 ice hockey team in Belarus. The team represented Belarus at the International Ice Hockey Federation's World Junior Hockey Championship. Prior to independence in 1991, Belarusian players played for the Soviet Union, which played in the World Juniors from its inception in 1974. Belarus has played in the top division eight times, first in 1999 and most recently in 2018, with their best finish being ninth overall in both 2001 and 2002.
Due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Ice Hockey Federation banned all Belarusian national and club teams from its events indefinitely, and Hockey Canada banned Belarus's “participation in events held in Canada that do not fall under the IIHF’s jurisdiction.”[1][2][3]