The 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships was the 12th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held in Moscow, Soviet Union. Canada and the Soviet Union won the gold and silver medals respectively as the two nations redeemed themselves following their mutual disqualification in the 1987 tournament as a result of the Punch-up in Piestany. Finland won the bronze medal.

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1988 IIHF World U20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Soviet Union
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	December 26, 1987 – January 4, 1988
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Canada (3rd title)
Runner-up	Soviet Union
Third place	Finland
Fourth place	Czechoslovakia
Tournament statistics
Games played	28
Goals scored	247 (8.82 per game)
Attendance	46,220 (1,651 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Alexander Mogilny (18 points)
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The 1988 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Canada	7	6	0	1	37	16	+21	13
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	0	44	18	+26	12
3	Finland	7	5	1	1	36	20	+16	11
4	Czechoslovakia	7	3	3	1	36	23	+13	7
5	Sweden	7	3	3	1	36	24	+12	7
6	United States	7	1	6	0	28	46	−18	2
7	West Germany	7	1	6	0	18	47	−29	2
8	Poland	7	1	6	0	12	53	−41	2

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Poland was relegated to Pool B for 1989.

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Sapporo Japan from March 12 to 21. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games.

Standings

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Norway	7	5	2	0	38	18	+20	10			8–0	3–2	3–4	8–2	6–7	5–1	5–2
2	Romania	7	5	2	0	24	27	−3	10		0–8		4–2	3–2	3–6	5–4	3–1	6–4
3	Switzerland	7	4	2	1	34	23	+11	9		2–3	2–4		1–1	6–5	6–5	9–2	8–3
4	Japan	7	3	2	2	34	27	+7	8		4–3	2–3	1–1		7–1	6–8	4–4	10–7
5	France	7	4	3	0	31	36	−5	8		2–8	6–3	5–6	1–7		7–6	7–5	3–1
6	Yugoslavia	7	3	3	1	37	36	+1	7		7–6	4–5	5–6	8–6	6–7		2–2	5–4
7	Netherlands	7	0	4	3	20	35	−15	3		1–5	1–3	2–9	4–4	5–7	2–2		5–5
8	Austria	7	0	6	1	26	42	−16	1		2–5	4–6	3–8	7–10	1–3	4–5	5–5

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Norway was promoted to Pool A and Austria was relegated to Pool C for 1989.

Eight teams contested the third tier this year in Belluno and Feltre, Italy from March 18 to 27. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. The North Korean juniors debuted this year.

Standings

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Denmark	7	7	0	0	59	11	+48	14			6–2	3–2	9–2	19–0	4–2	5–3	13–0
2	Italy	7	6	1	0	27	17	+10	12		2–6		4–1	6–4	4–2	3–2	3–2	5–0
3	Bulgaria	7	5	2	0	39	16	+23	10		2–3	1–4		7–3	8–1	10–0	8–4	3–1
4	Great Britain	7	3	3	1	21	27	−6	7		2–9	4–6	3–7		4–1	3–1	2–2	3–1
5	Spain	7	2	4	1	19	45	−26	5		0–19	2–4	1–8	1–4		6–2	5–5	4–3
6	Hungary	7	2	5	0	14	28	−14	4		2–4	2–3	0–10	1–3	2–6		4–1	3–1
7	North Korea	7	1	4	2	20	29	−9	4		3–5	2–3	4–8	2–2	5–5	1–4		3–2
8	Belgium	7	0	7	0	8	34	−26	0		0–13	0–5	1–3	1–3	3–4	1–3	2–3

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Denmark was initially promoted to Pool B for 1989, however because they used an ineligible player, a challenge series with Italy was played the following December to determine promotion.^[1]