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Canada national bandy team

Bandy teams representing Canada


Summary

Bandy teams representing Canada

FieldValue
NameCanada
BadgeTeam Canada Bandy 1991.jpg
CaptionTeam Canada (1991)
World bandy debut at the
1991 Bandy World Championship
Badge_size200
AssociationCanada Bandy
CoachGöran Svensson
Team_Colors
First game10–0
(Porvoo, Finland; 17 March 1991)
Largest win18–0
(Kazan, Russia; 1 February 2005)
Largest loss22–1
(Irkutsk, Russia; 30 January 2014)
World champ2 nameBandy World Championship
World champ2 apps15
World champ2 first1991
World champ2 best6th (1991, 1993)
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World bandy debut at the 1991 Bandy World Championship (Porvoo, Finland; 17 March 1991) (Kazan, Russia; 1 February 2005) (Irkutsk, Russia; 30 January 2014) |- 6th overall Group B 2nd 6th overall Group B 2nd 7th overall Group B 3rd 7th overall Group B 2nd 9th overall Group B 4th 8th overall Group B 2nd 8th overall Group B 2nd 8th overall Group B 2nd 8th overall Group B 2nd 8th overall Group B 2nd 7th overall Group B 1st (lost qualification to Group A in 2011) 8th overall Group B 2nd 8th overall Group B 2nd 8th overall Group B 2nd 8th overall Division A Last place 9th overall Group B 1st (moving up to group A) 14th overall Group B 6th |- 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. The teams are overseen by Canada Bandy (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. 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. 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.

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

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.

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

Timothy Lang, Peter Gall, Costa Cholakas, Lee Bilinkopf,

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.{{Cite news |access-date=30 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015080142/http://www.canadabandy.ca/pdfs/Canda_wins_silver.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2007

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. For this Championship Canada's team included 4 players playing professionally in club teams in Sweden.

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.

Pos.AgeNameClub
GKBrian BellCanada Winnipeg
GK29Ronnie LinticCanada Nature Boys
DF47Costa CholakisCanada Winnipeg
DF25Chris KarasewichCanada Winnipeg
DF28Jeremy RossCanada Winnipeg
MF25Drew EllementCanada Winnipeg
MF25Brady FisherCanada Winnipeg
MF29Brett GavrailoffCanada Winnipeg
MF25Curtis KrulCanada Winnipeg
MF25Jeff KrulCanada Winnipeg
MF27John MurrayCanada Winnipeg
FW25Brandon EllementCanada Winnipeg
FW25Colin HekleCanada Winnipeg
FW27Steve LandervilleCanada Winnipeg
FW28Nick MazurakCanada Winnipeg
FW28Brook RobsonCanada Winnipeg
FW24Brendon SedoCanada 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.

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, where they won the Gold Medal of the Division B tournament, qualifying for Division A in 2018.

2018 Seniors

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

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.

References

References

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  11. (28 October 2015). "По примеру Сочи и Кремля". Bandy Federation of Russia.
  12. [http://www.rusbandy.ru/pix/30219.png Playing schedule of WCS Group B]
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  14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWXDt3rXrMQ YouTube video with the goals from the final]
  15. "The national team of Canada won't come to Khabarovsk again.".
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