{"id":616440,"date":"2026-04-19T04:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616440\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:55:10","slug":"australia-finishes-fourth-in-division-ii-group-a-ice-hockey-news-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616440\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia finishes fourth in Division II Group A \u2013 Ice Hockey News Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Thumbnail-Australian-women-002.png\" alt=\"Ice Hockey News Australia Australian women's national ice hockey team featured image thumbnail\" title=\"Thumbnail - Australian women-002\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Australian women\u2019s national team have finished fourth at the 2026 IIHF Ice Hockey Women\u2019s World Championship Division II Group A tournament\u00a0in Bled, Slovenia. The final two games of the competition were held yesterday and saw Chinese Taipei defeat Iceland 4\u20133 following a shootout and Poland shutout Slovenia 2\u20130. The results from the final day saw Australia drop from third to fourth, finishing with four points from four games. Poland finishes in first place and earns promotion to Division I Group B. The IIHF award for best Australian player of the tournament was given to forward Christina Julien.<\/p>\n<p>ResultsChinese Taipei4\u20133 SOIcelandShootout: OOOX<br \/>SOG: 22(1\u20130, 2\u20132, 0\u20131, 0\u20130, 1\u20130)<br \/>Shootout: OOOOO<br \/>SOG: 44\u2013 Game details: 16:00, 18 April 2026, Ledena Dvorana Bled. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihf.com\/en\/events\/2026\/wwiia\/gamecenter\/playbyplay\/70348\/9-tpe-vs-isl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game card<\/a>.Slovenia0\u20132PolandSOG: 5(0\u20131, 0\u20131, 0\u20130)SOG: 69\u2013 Game details: 19:30, 18 April 2026, Ledena Dvorana Bled. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihf.com\/en\/events\/2026\/wwiia\/gamecenter\/playbyplay\/70349\/10-slo-vs-pol\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game card<\/a>.StandingsPos+\/\u2013TeamGP\u00a0W\u00a0OTWOTL\u00a0\u00a0L\u00a0\u00a0PTS1\u2013Poland44000122\u2013Slovenia4200263+2Chinese Taipei4020244\u20131Australia4101245\u20131Iceland410124Further informationLike this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian women\u2019s national team have finished fourth at the 2026 IIHF Ice Hockey Women\u2019s World Championship Division&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-616440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}