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Team Canada (1991)
World bandy debut at the
1991 Bandy World Championship
AssociationCanada Bandy
Head coachGöran Svensson
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First international
 United States 10–0 Canada 
(Porvoo, Finland; 17 March 1991)
Biggest win
 Canada 18–0 Estonia 
(Kazan, Russia; 1 February 2005)
Biggest defeat
 Russia 22–1 Canada 
(Irkutsk, Russia; 30 January 2014)
Bandy World Championship
Appearances15 (first in 1991)
Best result6th (1991, 1993)
Canada national bandy team
Medal record
Bandy World Championship
Silver medal – second place 1991 Finland Team

6th overall
Group B
2nd

Silver medal – second place 1993 Norway Team

6th overall
Group B
2nd

Bronze medal – third place 1995 USA Team

7th overall
Group B
3rd

Silver medal – second place 1997 Sweden Team

7th overall
Group B
2nd

1999 Russia did not participate
2001 Finland and Sweden did not participate
2003 Russia did not participate
Sweden 2004
(B-group in Hungary)		 Team

9th overall
Group B
4th

Silver medal – second place 2005 Russia Team

8th overall
Group B
2nd

Silver medal – second place 2006 Sweden Team

8th overall
Group B
2nd

Silver medal – second place 2007 Russia did not participate

8th overall
Group B
2nd

Silver medal – second place 2008 Russia Team

8th overall
Group B
2nd

Silver medal – second place 2009 Sweden Team

8th overall
Group B
2nd

Gold medal – first place 2010 Russia[1] Team

7th overall
Group B
1st
(lost qualification to Group A
in 2011)

Silver medal – second place 2011 Sweden Team

8th overall
Group B
2nd

Silver medal – second place 2012 Kazakhstan Team

8th overall
Group B
2nd

Silver medal – second place 2013 Sweden Team

8th overall
Group B
2nd

2014 Russia Team

8th overall
Division A
Last place

2015 Russia did not participate
2016 Russia did not participate
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sweden Team

9th overall
Group B
1st
(moving up to group A)

2018 Russia did not participate
2019 Sweden Team

14th overall
Group B
6th

2020 Russia Covid 19
2022 Russia Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Canada national bandy team (French: Équipe nationale de bandy du Canada) refers to the bandy teams representing Canada. Presently only the national men's senior team competes. There is the men's national team and the women's national team. Both teams are overseen by Canada Bandy[2] (previously the Manitoba Bandy Federation) which is a member of the Federation of International Bandy (FIB). This article deals chiefly with the national men's team. For the women's team please see Canada women's national bandy team.

Bandy was first introduced to Canada in the city of Winnipeg in 1986.[3] The initial organizations for bandy in Canada were called the "Bandy Federation of Manitoba" and "Canada Bandy Association/Federation". The men compete in the Bandy World Championship. Canada's national men's bandy team made their world debut at the 1991 Bandy World Championship.

While Canada is a country with a strong tradition in ice hockey and ringette, both sports are played on an ice rink and Canada does not have artificial ice rinks large enough to qualify as regulation sized bandy fields. As a result, Canada's national men's team practices at home on ice hockey rinks or other substitute surfaces.[4] In the past, the Canadian women's bandy team practiced on a frozen water hazard on a Winnipeg golf course. Team Canada occasionally goes to the United States to practice in areas where full-sized bandy fields exist.[5]

The Canadian team also continues to play in the annual Can-Am Bandy Cup.[6]

History

While early forms of what is now called "bandy" have been recorded to have been played in Canada as far back as the 1850s after having been introduced by British soldiers, Canada did not form a national bandy team until the 1980s. The game was initially called "hockey on the ice". However, the sport of ice hockey, (which used the smaller ice rinks and pucks rather than the larger bandy fields) and a bandy ball, organized in Canada in 1875, absorbing bandy sports in the process and resulting in bandy's disappearance from North America. The sport did however formalize in England at the same time when ice hockey was being formalized in Canada. The first Team Canada for bandy was the Canadian men's national bandy team in 1991.

World Championship record

The men's team has competed in the annual Bandy World Championship several times starting in 1991.

Tournament Final standing
Finland 1991 Finished in 6th place
(2nd in Group B)
Norway 1993 Finished in 6th place
(2nd in Group B)
USA 1995 Finished in 7th place
(3rd in Group B)
Sweden 1997 Finished in 7th place
(2nd in Group B)
Russia 1999 did not participate
Finland and Sweden 2001 did not participate
Russia 2003 did not participate
Sweden 2004; (B-group in Hungary) Finished in 9th place
(4th in Group B)
Russia 2005 Finished in 8th place
(2nd in Group B)
Sweden 2006 Finished in 8th place
(2nd in Group B)
Russia 2007 did not participate
Russia 2008 Finished in 8th place
(2nd in Group B)
Sweden 2009 Finished in 8th place
(2nd in Group B)
Russia 2010[1] Finished in 7th place
(1st in Group B, lost qualification to Group A in 2011)
Russia 2011 Finished in 8th place
(2nd in Group B)
Kazakhstan 2012 Finished in 8th place
(2nd in Group B)
Sweden 2013 Finished in 8th place
(2nd in Group B)
Russia 2014 Finished in 8th place
(last in Division A)
Russia 2015 did not participate
Russia 2016 did not participate
Sweden 2017 Finished in 9th place
(1st in group B, moving up to group A)
Russia 2018 did not participate
Sweden 2019 Finished in 14th place
(6th in Group B)
Russia 2020 Finished in 14th place
(6th in Group B)
Russia 2022 Finished in 14th place
(6th in Group B)

Team Canada Senior

1991 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad made its world debut at the 1991 Bandy World Championship, in the championship in Helsinki, Finland.

1993 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 1993 Bandy World Championship in Norway.

1995 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 1995 Bandy World Championship in the United States.

1997 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 1997 Bandy World Championship in Sweden.

1999 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 1999 Bandy World Championship.

2001 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2001 Bandy World Championship.

2003 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2003 Bandy World Championship.

2005 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed in the 2005 in Kazan, Russia, where they lost to the Belarus national bandy team for the "B" title.[7]

2010 Seniors

At the 2010 Bandy World Championship Canada won Group B for the first time. Canada, however, lost the Group A qualification match against the United States by a score of 6–9, and thus would again play in Group B at the 2011 Bandy World Championship in Kazan, Russia.[8] For this Championship Canada's team included 4 players playing professionally in club teams in Sweden.[9]

2012 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 2012 Bandy World Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2014 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad competed at the 2014 Bandy World Championship in Irkutsk, Russia, 26 January – 2 February 2014.[10]

Pos. Age Name Club
GK Brian Bell Canada Winnipeg
GK 29 Ronnie Lintic Canada Nature Boys
DF 47 Costa Cholakis Canada Winnipeg
DF 25 Chris Karasewich Canada Winnipeg
DF 28 Jeremy Ross Canada Winnipeg
MF 25 Drew Ellement Canada Winnipeg
MF 25 Brady Fisher Canada Winnipeg
MF 29 Brett Gavrailoff Canada Winnipeg
MF 25 Curtis Krul Canada Winnipeg
MF 25 Jeff Krul Canada Winnipeg
MF 27 John Murray Canada Winnipeg
FW 25 Brandon Ellement Canada Winnipeg
FW 25 Colin Hekle Canada Winnipeg
FW 27 Steve Landerville Canada Winnipeg
FW 28 Nick Mazurak Canada Winnipeg
FW 28 Brook Robson Canada Winnipeg
FW 24 Brendon Sedo Canada Blue Jeys

2015 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not participate in the 2015 Bandy World Championship. There were reports about them returning to the tournament for the 2016 Bandy World Championship (2016 WCS), but in the end they did not.[11][12]

2016 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not participate in the 2016 Bandy World Championship.

2017 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad participated in the 2017 Bandy World Championship,[13] where they won the Gold Medal of the Division B tournament,[14][15] qualifying for Division A in 2018.

2018 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not participate in the 2018 Bandy World Championship.[16]

2020 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2020 Bandy World Championship.

2022 Seniors

The senior Team Canada squad did not compete in the 2022 Bandy World Championship.

Gallery

References

  1. ^ a b "«США»-«КАНАДА»ЧЕМПИОНАТ МИРА/30/01/2010/ХОККЕЙ С МЯЧОМ" ["USA" - "CANADA" WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP/30/01/2010/HOCKEY WITH A BALL]. youtube.com. TV- BANDY-ХОККЕЙ С МЯЧОМ. 30 January 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Canada Bandy | History of Bandy". canadabandy.ca. Canada Bandy. 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  3. ^ "History of Canadian Bandy". globalbandy.proboards.com/. proboards.com. 21 May 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  4. ^ Abi Saper (23 February 2011). "Silver medal not a bad showing for bandy team with no rink". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Bandy: A New Olympic Sport?". Youtube. Shaw TV/Go Winnipeg. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  6. ^ Chris Halden (15 January 2016). "Team USA Defeats Canada 6-2 in Annual Border Battle". usabandy.com. USA Bandy. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  7. ^ Prest, Ashley (2 May 2005). "Canada's bandy team wins silver" (PDF). Winnipeg Free Press. FP Canadian Newspapers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  8. ^ "Welcome to www.canadabandy.ca". Archived from the original on 21 June 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2008.
  9. ^ Prest, Ashley (26 January 2010). "Bandy's dandy, and travelling the world is OK, too". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  10. ^ Teams Archived 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine 2014 Bandy World Championship Official Homepage. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  11. ^ "Teams". Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  12. ^ "По примеру Сочи и Кремля" [Following the example of Sochi and the Kremlin]. rusbandy.ru. Bandy Federation of Russia. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  13. ^ Playing schedule of WCS Group B
  14. ^ Geary, Aidan (29 January 2017). "'Total euphoria' as Team Canada brings home world cup for bandy (CBC web site)". Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  15. ^ YouTube video with the goals from the final
  16. ^ "The national team of Canada won't come to Khabarovsk again". Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2017.

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