Women's Bandy World Championship
| Most recent season or competition: 2020 Women's Bandy World Championship | |
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| Sport | Bandy |
|---|---|
| Inaugural season | 2004 |
| No. of teams | Differing |
| Countries | World |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Sweden (9th title) |
| Most titles | Sweden (9 titles) |
| Official website | worldbandy.com |
The Women's Bandy World Championships is an international sports tournament for women and the premier international competition for women's bandy between bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy.
It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup Women which is a women's club competition, the Bandy World Cup which is a club competition for men, and from the Bandy World Championship which is the premier international bandy competition for men's teams.
A Youth Bandy World Championship also exists separately from the women's senior competition and has competitions in both the male and female categories, with the F17 WC tournament representing the youth World Championship in bandy for girls up to 17 years of age.
Although the sport of bandy has been played by both men and women since the 19th century, the first men's world championship didn't take place until 1957, and the first official women's international bandy tournament only began in 2004. However, an international match between women's bandy teams from Sweden and Finland took place in Helsinki, Finland in 1935 at the , where a portion of the match was captured by British Pathé. The archival short film was uploaded and published on the video sharing site, Youtube, on April 13, 2014.[1]
Upcoming Event[]
The new date for the 2022 Women's Bandy World Championship is March 23-27, 2022.
According to the Federation of International Bandy (FIB), the competition was postponed from its initial start date due to organizing problems in Sweden.[2] It was initially planned to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, January 9-16, 2022 at the newly built Gubbängen's Skating and Bandy Arena (Bandyhallen i Gubbängen in Swedish). The tournament was to be the first Women's Bandy World Championship to be played indoors[3][4] but still will be after the recent change of venue.
Venue[]
The 2022 Women's Bandy World Championships will take place in Åby, a small community north of Växjö, in southern Sweden about 400 kilometers south of Stockholm. Åby has its own indoor arena, the ,[1] which is a newly built bandy arena which was completed in 2019. Åby/Tjureda IF, a team in the Bandyallsvenskan, the Swedish second division, normally plays there.
Participating nations[]
Sweden, Russia, Finland, Norway and USA have participated in every tournament, Canada in most of them, Hungary in two and China debuted in 2016.[5] The record number of participants were 8, in 2018 and 2020. Estonia and Switzerland debuted in 2018,[6] and Japan in 2020.[7]
Participation details[]
| Team | 2004 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | 2020 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Canada |
6th | 4th | 5th | 4th | 4th | 5th | 4th | ||||
 China |
7th | 6th | |||||||||
 |
7th | 7th | |||||||||
 Finland |
3rd | 4th | 5th | 3rd | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 6th | 4th | 4th | |
 Hungary |
7th | 7th | |||||||||
 |
6th | ||||||||||
 Norway |
4th | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 6th | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | |
 Russia |
2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | |
| Sweden |
1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | |
 Switzerland |
8th | 8th | |||||||||
 United States |
5th | 5th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 5th | 6th | 5th | 5th | 5th |
Top results year by year[]
| Year | Final Venue | Gold | Result | Silver | Bronze | Result | Fourth place | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004[8] Details |
Lappeenranta |
 Sweden |
7–0 |  Russia |
 Finland |
8–1 |  Norway | ||
| 2006[9] Details |
Roseville |
Sweden |
3–1 | Russia |
Norway |
2–1 | Finland | ||
| 2007[10] Details |
Budapest |
Sweden |
3–2 | Russia |
Norway |
4–3 (ps) |  Canada | ||
| 2008[11] Details |
Borlänge |
Sweden |
5–2 | Russia |
Finland |
5–3 | Norway | ||
| 2010[12] Details |
Drammen |
Sweden |
3–2 (OT) | Russia |
Norway |
3–2 | Canada | ||
| 2012[13] Details |
Irkutsk |
Sweden |
5–3 | Russia |
Finland |
4–1 | Canada | ||
| 2014 Details |
Lappeenranta |
Russia |
3–1 | Sweden |
Finland |
3–2 (OT) | Norway | ||
| 2016 Details |
Roseville |
Sweden |
1–0 | Russia |
Norway |
3–2 (OT) | Canada | ||
| 2018 Details |
Chengde |
Sweden |
1–0 | Russia |
Norway |
5–2 | Finland | ||
| 2020 Details |
Oslo |
Sweden |
3–1 | Russia |
Norway |
6–1 | Finland | ||
| 2022 Details |
Åby |
– | – |
Medal table[]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweden | 9 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | Russia | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10 |
| 3 | Norway | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 4 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Totals (4 nations) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | |
Bandy World Championship G-17[]
The Bandy World Championship G-17 or U17 (under 17) world championship in bandy for women, known as F17 WC and U17-världsmästerskapet i bandy för damer in Sweden, is the youth world championship in bandy for girls up to 17 years of age and is held separately from the World Bandy Women's Championship which is for adults. G17 is sometimes written as F17 and the Y designations may also be written with a U.
The tournament is a Youth Bandy World Championship for girls' teams up to the age of 17 years. FC 17 is the only age group for which the world championship in bandy for young female players is held. The first tournament was held in 2009 and has since been held every two years.
Normally only teams from the main bandy countries of Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden participate, but the USA has participated a few times and at the tournament in Irkutsk 2017, a China U17 team made its debut.[14]
U17 medal table[]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweden (SWE) | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | Russia (RUS) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Totals (3 nations) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
See also[]
- Bandy
- Rink bandy
Women's Bandy World Championship
- Sweden women's national bandy team
- Russia women's national bandy team
- Finland women's national bandy team
- Norway women's national bandy team
- United States women's national bandy team
- Switzerland women's national bandy team
- China women's national bandy team
- Canada women's national bandy team
- Hungary women's national bandy team
- Soviet Union women's national bandy team
References[]
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- ^ "FIB 2022 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WOMEN". worldbandy.com. Federation of International Bandy. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
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- ^ "Календарь женского ЧМ-2018 - Архив новостей - Федерация хоккея с мячом России".
- ^ http://www.worldbandy.com/2019/12/17/preparation-for-wcs-women-in-norway-in-full-swing/ PREPARATION FOR WCS WOMEN IN NORWAY IN FULL SWING!
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- ^ http://www.ifkrattvikbandy.se/nyheter-f17/rattvikstjejer-till-f17-landslaget/
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