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22 officials named
22 officials named
Refs, linesman for U18 Worlds known
Published 22.10.2014 15:01 GMT+2 | Author
Players from the Swiss and U.S. U18 national teams exchange gifts in front of the on-ice officials prior to their game at the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship. Photo: Richard Wolowicz / HHOF-IIHF Images
The IIHF has named 373 officials from 41 countries for the World Championship program including 22 who will officiate in Zug and Lucerne.
12 referees and 10 linesmen were nominated for the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship in Switzerland including three local officials, referee Andreas Koch and linesmen Franco Espinoza and Michael Tscherrig.
Koch has already officiated nine games in the U18 World Championships, in 2012 and 2013. For Espinoza and Tscherrig it will be the first top-level IIHF event.
| Referees | Linesmen | |||
| Bergamelli, Jimmy | FRA | Buese, Markku | GER | |
| Harnebring, Andreas | SWE | Espinoza, Franco | SUI | |
| Iverson, Brett | CAN | Gebauer, Jiri | CZE | |
| Koch, Andreas | SUI | Korba, Martin | SVK | |
| Lindqvist, Petri | FIN | Lundgren, Ludvig | SWE | |
| Mullner, Robert | SVK | Oliver, Brian | USA | |
| Oskirko, Yuri | RUS | Otmakhov, Alexander | RUS | |
| Pesina, Vladimir | CZE | Piche, Nicolas | CAN | |
| Pitoscia, Christopher | USA | Sormunen, Hannu | FIN | |
| Rohatsch, Marian | GER | Tscherrig, Michael | SUI | |
| Smetana, Ladislav | AUT | |||
| Solem, Per Gustav | NOR |
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