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2020 IIHF World Championship Division III

international ice hockey tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ64363142 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2020 IIHF World Championship Division III was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

The Group A tournament would have been held in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg from 19 to 25 April and the Group B tournament in Cape Town, South Africa from 20 to 23 April 2020.

Both tournaments were cancelled on 13 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Group A tournament

Participants

Match officials

Four referees and seven linesmen are selected for the tournament.

Standings

Results

All times are local (UTC+2).

Group B tournament

Participants

Match officials

Three referees and four linesmen are selected for the tournament.

Standings

Results

All times are local (UTC+2).

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The public source identifies “2020 IIHF World Championship Division III” as international ice hockey tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around IIHF, World and Championship.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with IIHF, World and Championship providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2020 IIHF World Championship Division III” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.