Two quarterfinal matches on May 11 in the Ice Hockey World Championship ended with the Czech and Swedish teams advancing to one of the semi-final matches, the SITA newswire wrote.
In the late afternoon, the Czech team defeated the US team 4-0 with Czech Jaromír Jáger scoring a hat-trick. In the evening match, the Swedish team won over the German team 5-2. The two winners will play on Friday, May 13 at 16:15. Participants for the second semi-final to be played at 20:15 on Friday will be the winners of matches on Thursday, when the Finns play against Norway at 16:15 and Russia plays Canada at 20:15.
Source: SITA
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Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská from press reports
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