2000 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

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2000 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships
Tournament details
Host country USA
DatesMarch 20–25, 2000
Teams6
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg Canada
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The 2nd IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships was held between March 20, 2000 and March 25, 2000 at the E Center in West Valley City, Utah, United States.The same place where would host the same sport two years later as the first test event for the Paralympic Winter Games in 2002. Participating countries: Canada, Estonia, Japan, Norway, Sweden and United States.

Final Rankings[]

Canada beat Norway 2-1 to win the gold medal. The game went into overtime and more than 6,000 fans cheered on as Canada’s Shawn Matheson scored the winning goal. The victory gave Canada, the country that created the sport, its first gold medal in sledge hockey, and avenged a gold-medal loss to Norway at the 1998 Paralympics in Nagano. Sweden grabbed the bronze by beating Japan 5-1, while Estonia squared off with the United States to take 5th place.

Gold: Silver: Bronze: 4th: 5th 6th
 Canada
Bradley Bowden
Billy Bridges

Jean Labonté
Robert Lagace

Hervé Lord
Warren Martin
Shawn Matheson
Lou Mulvihill
Todd Nicholson
Pierre Pichette
Dany Verner 		 Norway
Helge Bjørnstad
Knut Erling Granaas
Eskil Hagen
Atle Haglund
Roger Hansen
Tommy Rovelstad
Erik Sandbraaten
Geir Arne Skogstad
Stig Tore Svee

  Sweden

Marcus Holm
Rasmus Isaksson
Bengt-Gösta Johansson
Kent Jonsson
Göran Karlsson
Jens Kask

Leif Norgren
Mats Nyman
Leif Wahlstedt 		 Japan
Takayuki Endo
Shinobu Fukushima

Naohiko Ishida
Tadashi Kato
Eiji Misawa
Mitsuru Nagase


Satoru Sudo

Atsuya Yaguchi 		 Estonia


Kaido Kalm






  United States
Dave Conklin
Sylvester Flis
Manuel Guerra Jr.
Dan Henderson
Joe Howard
Kip St.Germaine C
Josh Wirt

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