Women's Bandy World Championship

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.

Bandy World Championship for women
Most recent season or competition:
2020 Women's Bandy World Championship
SportBandy
Inaugural season2004
No. of teamsDiffering
CountriesWorld
Most recent
champion(s)		 Sweden
(9th title)
Most titles Sweden
(9 titles)
Official websiteworldbandy.com

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 Helsingfors Ice Stadium, 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
Logo of the 2022 Women's Bandy World Championship

The next Women's Bandy World Championship, which will be the 2022 Women's Bandy World Championship, will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, January 9-16, 2022 at the newly built Gubbängen's Skating and Bandy Arena also called Bandyhallen i Gubbängen. The tournament will be the first Women's Bandy World Championship to be played indoors.[2][3]

Participating nations
A bandy international between Finland and Norway in the 2004 Women's Bandy World Championship in Lappeenranta

Sweden, Russia, Finland, Norway and USA have participated in every tournament, Canada in most of them, Hungary in two and China debuted in 2016.[4] The record number of participants were 7, in 2007, 2008 and 2016. Regarding the tournament in 2018, the organisers had thought out measures with the goal to attract 12 participating countries,[5] but in the end the calendar showed 8 teams, with debuts for Estonia and Switzerland.[6] In the 2020 tournament, Japan participated for the first time.[7]

Participation details
Team 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022
 Canada6th4th5th4th4th5th4th
 China7th6th
 Estonia7th7th
 Finland3rd4th5th3rd5th3rd3rd6th4th4th
 Hungary7th7th
 Japan6th
 Norway4th3rd3rd4th3rd6th4th3rd3rd3rd
 Russia2nd2nd2nd2nd2nd2nd1st2nd2nd2nd
 Sweden1st1st1st1st1st1st2nd1st1st1st
  Switzerland8th8th
 United States5th5th6th6th6th5th6th5th5th5th

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

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Sweden91010
2 Russia19010
3 Norway0066
4 Finland0044
Totals (4 nations)10101030

Bandy World Championship G-17
Main article: 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
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Sweden (SWE)5016
2 Russia (RUS)1326
3 Finland (FIN)0336
Totals (3 nations)66618

References
  1. "Ice Hockey At Helsingfors On Sleeve As Ice Hockey At Halsingfors News In A Nutshell (1935)". Youtube. British Pathé.
  2. "Fib - 2022 WCS Women".
  3. "Stockholm to host 2022 Women's Bandy World Championship".
  4. http://www.bandyvesti.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/12745881_1684006601817246_6802152532821459731_n.jpg Bandyvesti
  5. "Google Translate".
  6. "Календарь женского ЧМ-2018 - Архив новостей - Федерация хоккея с мячом России".
  7. 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!
  8. "bandysidan.nu - World Championships Women". bandysidan.nu. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
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  14. http://www.ifkrattvikbandy.se/nyheter-f17/rattvikstjejer-till-f17-landslaget/
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