Ice Hockey: Great Britain beat Korea in World Championship Division I opener
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Great Britain were relegated from the Championship Group last year and are now competing in Division I
Great Britain started their World Championship Division I campaign with a 4-0 victory over Korea in Nottingham.
GB's Ben Lake opened the scoring after two minutes with Robert Dowd, Cade Neilson and Liam Kirk adding the rest.
The hosts are one of six teams in Group A fighting for a place in the 16-team elite Championship group with the top two teams earning promotion.
Italy, Lithuania, Korea, Romania and Poland, who GB will face on Sunday, make up the rest of Group A.
Britain, hosting the tournament for the second time in six years after the Division I Group B tournament in Belfast in 2017, were relegated from the Championship group last year along with Italy.
But they were dominant on Saturday in front of a crowd of 4,000 at Motorpoint Arena.
Earlier on Saturday, Poland thrashed Lithuania 7-0 in the opening match of the round-robin tournament before Italy beat Romania 6-2.
The teams who finish first and second in the group will be promoted to play in the 2024 top-level World Championship in the Czech Republic.
Full Group A schedule
Sunday 30 April
Lithuania v Romania - 12:30 BST
Great Britain v Poland - 16:00
Italy v Korea - 19:30
Tuesday 2 May
Romania v Korea - 12:30
Italy v Poland - 16:00
Great Britain v Lithuania - 19:30
Wednesday 3 May
Korea v Poland - 12:30
Lithuania v Italy - 16:00
Great Britain v Romania - 19:30
Friday 5 May
Poland v Romania - 12:30
Lithuania v Korea - 16:00
Italy v Great Britain - 19:30