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The Capital of Slovakia - Bratislava will host from June 21st to June 29th the 2008 IIHF IN-LINE Hockey World Championships - Pool A and Pool B.

The preliminary round will be played in 4 groups (A-D) with 4 teams each. The groups A and B form Pool A, the groups C and D form Pool B.

The two last-placed teams of the groups A and B and the two first-placed teams of the groups C and D play for 4^th place in group A and B to participate in the Play-Offs of Pool A. The losers of the games beetween 4^th A and 1^st C, 4^th B and 1^st D play as first place in group C and D to participate in the Play-Offs of Pool B. The ranking of the groups is based according to the result of the last World Championships performance of the respective countries in the IIHF IN-LINEe Hockey Program and the qualification rounds. Seeded 15 and 16 you will find the qualifier of the Asian/Oceanian Group New Zealand and South Africa as qualifier of the African Group according to their WC´s ranking points.

In the preliminary round the games of group A and C will be played in main Arena, the games of group B and D in small Arena.

The A-Pool World Championship (Play-Offs) will be played in the main ARENA. The World Championship Pool B (Play-Offs) will be played in the small ARENA. Both rinks will be "AXXESS ICE COURT" floors (http://www.icecourt.com/), the official IIHF Championship Floor.

All games in the preliminary and Play-Off rounds will be played with 5-minute sudden victory overtime and a penalty shoot-out in case of a tie. The final games will be played with 12-minute sudden victory overtime and a penalty shoot out competition.

Groups (main Arena):
Group A                Group B
SWE (1)                FIN(2)
AUT (4)                 GER (3)
SLO (5)                 USA (6)
SVK (8)                 CZE (7)

Groups (small Arena):
Group C              Group D
BRA (9)               NZL (10)
AUS (12)            HUN (11)
GBR (13)           JPN (14)
BUL (16)           CAN (15)

NEWS

23.06.2008
Common photo of participants 2008 IIHF World Inline Hockey Championship
Common photo of participants 2008 IIHF World Inline Hockey Championship

21.06.2008
IIHF World In-line Championship has been started - Slovakia beat Autria
Twelfth IIHF World In-line Championship has been open on Saturday in Bratislava

19.06.2008
Entry Team Rosters
Team Rosters of the Teams in the 2008 IIHF World In-line Championship in Bratislava.

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