Michael Geier bagged five of the goals after setting up Zdenek Habl for the opener in what proved to be an emphatic victory.

In the bronze medal match, Slovakia claimed a 5-1 success over Great Britain.

The final standings mean that the Czech Republic, Japan and Slovakia all advance to the qualification tournament for the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang.

The Czech Republic were not taking any chances in their quest for gold, fielding their strongest possible team full of their most experienced players.

In the final round of preliminary matches yesterday the Czechs had continued their formidable record as they brushed aside Japan 2-0 and they made light work of their opponents once again.

Double Paralympian Habl opened the scoring for the European side after just four minutes.

He was assisted by Geier, who then went on to score the rest of his team’s goals in a stunning individual performance.

Geier found the net twice in the opening period before the 30-year-old added a further three after the break as he went on to win the Czech Republic’s Best Player award.

Silver medallists Japan forced Czech goal tender Michal Vapenka to make 16 saves in the contest, but they could not convert any of their attacks.

Slovakia, meanwhile, retained their bronze medal from the 2015 edition of this tournament with Martin Joppa scoring two goals.

Defender Miroslav Stasak opened the scoring for Slovakia in the seventh minute, before their lead was doubled by Erik Fojtik.

Marian Ligda scored Slovakia’s third before Joppa opened his account to give them an emphatic 4-0 lead.

Joppa then doubled his tally after poor marking allowed him to skate unassisted to his second goal before Britain scored a consolation goal courtesy of a powerful effort by defender Matt Clarkson.

"t was a good game. I would say better by far than the one yesterday" said Fojtik.

"I think that today we went out there to enjoy the game.

"We wanted to qualify for the qualifier for Pyeongchang.

"The bronze medal is definitely valuable even if there were only four teams here.

"I think each team that was here showed quality and everyone wanted to make it to the A-pool or to the Qualification Tournament."

The bottom three teams from the 2017 World Para Ice Hockey World Championships A-Pool event will also compete at the Pyeongchang 2018 Qualification Tournament.

The top five finishers from the Worlds A-Pool, the date and location of which is set to be confirmed in the near future, will qualify automatically for the Games.

Earlier this week, it was announced that a total of 10 sports, which are governed by the IPC, will undergo name and competition changes as part of an extensive rebrand.

The alterations to the names of the disciplines, including ice sledge hockey changing its name to Para ice hockey, came into effect immediately.

The change to Para ice hockey comes as a result of requests made by the sporting community to remove the word "sledge" due to it having a different meaning in different languages.