View source for 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's qualification

Fourteen nations would qualify for the [[2002 Winter Olympics|Olympic tournament]], eight to the preliminary round, and six to the first round.  The [[IIHF]] used the standings of the [[1999 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships]] to determine qualification.  First, the top six nations from Pool A would go directly to the first round.  The preliminary round was made up of the nations ranked seventh and eighth, along with six others from a series of qualification tournaments.  The nations ranked nine through twelve went straight to the final qualification round, with all other participants playing through pre-qualification tournaments.<ref>[http://www.iihf.com/hockey/olympic/img/ogm.pdf qualification process]</ref>

==Regional Qualification==
Two Regional qualifiers were used to thin the field for Pre-Qualification to sixteen nations.
;Far East
Played September 3–5, 1999 in [[Aomori, Aomori|Aomori]], [[Japan]].
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|-
!width=165|Team
!width=20|GP
!width=20|W
!width=20|L
!width=20|T
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|PTS
!rowspan=10|
! {{flagicon|JPN}}
! {{flagicon|CHN}}
! {{flagicon|KOR}}
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|JPN}}
|2||2||0||0||14||0||'''4'''|| ||5 - 0||9 - 0
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|CHN}}
|2||1||1||0||4||7||'''2'''||0 - 5|| ||4 - 2
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|KOR}}
|2||0||2||0||2||13||'''0'''||0 - 9||2 - 4|| 
|}
;European
Played December 11–12, 1999 in [[Sofia]] [[Bulgaria]].  [[Croatia]] should have played as well, but the proper application was accidentally not sent to the [[IIHF]].<ref>[http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/QualifJO2002.htm Croatia's mistake]</ref>
*December 11 {{ih-rt|FR Yugoslavia}}  7 - 6  {{ih|BUL}}
*December 12 {{ih-rt|FR Yugoslavia}}  7 - 4  {{ih|BUL}}

==Olympic Pre-Qualification==
Four tournaments were played February 10–13, 2000, with the winner of each advancing to the final qualification round.
;Group 1
Played in [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]]
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|-
!width=165|Team
!width=20|GP
!width=20|W
!width=20|L
!width=20|T
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|PTS
!rowspan=10|
! {{flagicon|GER}}
! {{flagicon|ITA}}
! {{flagicon|SLO}}
! {{flagicon|FR Yugoslavia}}
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|GER}}
|3||3||0||0||21||3||'''6'''|| ||2 - 1||5 - 2||14 - 0
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|ITA}}
|3||2||1||0||21||2||'''4'''||1 - 2|| ||7 - 0||13 - 0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|SLO}}
|3||1||2||0||13||12||'''2'''||2 - 5||0 - 7|| ||11 - 0
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|FR Yugoslavia}}
|3||0||3||0||0||38||'''0'''||0 - 14||0 - 13||0 - 11||
|}
;Group 2
Played in [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width=165|Team
!width=20|GP
!width=20|W
!width=20|L
!width=20|T
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|PTS
!rowspan=10|
! {{flagicon|UKR}}
! {{flagicon|KAZ}}
! {{flagicon|EST}}
! {{flagicon|LIT}}
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|UKR}}
|3||2||1||0||11||6||'''4'''|| ||3 - 5||5 - 0||3 - 1
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|KAZ}}
|3||2||1||0||20||9||'''4'''||5 - 3|| ||2 - 4||13 - 2
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|EST}}
|3||2||1||0||13||9||'''4'''||0 - 5||4 - 2|| ||9 - 2
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|LIT}}
|3||0||3||0||5||25||'''0'''||1 - 3||2 - 13||2 - 9||
|}
;Group 3
Played in [[Gdańsk]], [[Poland]]
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|-
!width=165|Team
!width=20|GP
!width=20|W
!width=20|L
!width=20|T
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|PTS
!rowspan=10|
! {{flagicon|FRA}}
! {{flagicon|POL}}
! {{flagicon|GBR}}
! {{flagicon|ROM}}
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|FRA}}
|3||3||0||0||19||7||'''6'''|| ||5 - 2||5 - 4||9 - 1
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|POL}}
|3||2||1||0||17||9||'''4'''||2 - 5|| ||4 - 2||11 - 2
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|GBR}}
|3||1||2||0||10||9||'''2'''||4 - 5||2 - 4|| ||4 - 0
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|ROM}}
|3||0||3||0||3||24||'''0'''||1 - 9||2 - 11||0 - 4||
|}
;Group 4
Played in [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width=165|Team
!width=20|GP
!width=20|W
!width=20|L
!width=20|T
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|PTS
!rowspan=10|
! {{flagicon|DEN}}
! {{flagicon|JPN}}
! {{flagicon|NED}}
! {{flagicon|HUN}}
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|DEN}}
|3||3||0||0||16||7||'''6'''|| ||7 - 3||3 - 1||6 - 3
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|JPN}}
|3||2||1||0||15||11||'''4'''||3 - 7|| ||5 - 3||7 - 1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|NED}}
|3||1||2||0||9||9||'''2'''||1 - 3||3 - 5|| ||5 - 1
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|HUN}}
|3||0||3||0||5||18||'''0'''||3 - 6||1 - 7||1 - 5||
|}

==Final Olympic Qualification==
Two tournaments were played February 8–11, 2001, with 6 of the remaining 8 nations qualifying for the [[2002 Winter Olympics|Olympics]].

;Group A
Played in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]]
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|-
!width=165|Team
!width=20|GP
!width=20|W
!width=20|L
!width=20|T
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|PTS
!rowspan=10|
! {{flagicon|GER}}
! {{flagicon|BLR}}
! {{flagicon|UKR}}
! {{flagicon|NOR}}
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|GER}}
|3||2||0||1||10||6||'''5'''|| ||1 - 1||3 - 1||6 - 4
|-bgcolor="#ccffcc" 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|BLR}}
|3||1||0||2||10||6||'''4'''||1 - 1|| ||2 - 2||7 - 3
|-bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|UKR}}
|3||1||1||1||8||6||'''3'''||1 - 3||2 - 2|| ||5 - 1
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|NOR}}
|3||0||3||0||8||18||'''0'''||4 - 6||3 - 7||1 - 5||
|}

;Group B
Played in [[Klagenfurt]], [[Austria]]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width=165|Team
!width=20|GP
!width=20|W
!width=20|L
!width=20|T
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|PTS
!rowspan=10|
! {{flagicon|LAT}}
! {{flagicon|FRA}}
! {{flagicon|AUT}}
! {{flagicon|DEN}}
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|LAT}}
|3||2||0||1||9||6||'''5'''|| ||1 - 1||4 - 3||4 - 2
|-bgcolor="#ccffcc" 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|FRA}}
|3||1||0||2||6||5||'''4'''||1 - 1|| ||3 - 3||2 - 1
|-bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|AUT}}
|3||1||1||1||12||9||'''3'''||3 - 4||3 - 3|| ||6 - 2
|- 
|style="text-align:left;"|{{ih|DEN}}
|3||0||3||0||5||12||'''0'''||2 - 4||1 - 2||2 - 6||
|}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/mondial2000qualif.htm Far East Qualifier results]
*[http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/QualifJO2002.htm European, Pre-Qualifying, and Final Qualifying results]
*[http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0001/Ogqma/0001/pg000001.htm Group A official results]
*[http://www.iihf.com/hockey/x/0001/Ogqmb/0001/pg000001.htm Group B official results]

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