1953 World Ice Hockey Championships

1953 World Ice Hockey Championships
Tournament details
Host country   Switzerland
Dates 7–15 March
Teams 4
Final positions
Champions   Sweden (1st title)
Runner-up   West Germany
Third place    Switzerland
Fourth place  Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played 6
Goals scored 64 (10.67 per match)
Attendance 53,000 (8,833 per match)
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The 1953 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships were the 20th World Championships and the 31st European Championships in ice hockey. The tournament took place between March 7 and March 15, 1953, in Basel and Zurich, Switzerland. Sweden won their first World Championship title and their seventh European Championship title.

This was the first world championship tournament with only European teams. On January 12, 1953, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president W.B. George stated Canada would not be sending a team to the 1953 World Championships. George told the press: "Every year we spend $10,000 to send a Canadian hockey team to Europe to play 40 exhibition games. All these games are played to packed houses that only enrich European hockey coffers. In return we are subjected to constant, unnecessary abuse over our Canadian style of play."[1] Also absent were the Soviets, it was hoped that the USSR would participate but they did not, sending observers, including coach Anatoli Tarasov to scout the tournament. It is believed that an injury to their star player Vsevolod Bobrov was the reason behind the decision.[1]

Czechoslovakia withdrew from the tournament when it became obvious that their President, Klement Gottwald, was going to die from pneumonia he contracted at Stalin's funeral. General František Janda, the Chairman of the State Committee for the Physical Education and Sport ordered the team home, and Gottwald died the next day, March 14, 1953. The team was disqualified, their results annulled and their remaining games cancelled.[1]

World Championships Group A (Switzerland)

Date Matches A World Championships 1953 Result Period.
7 March  Czechoslovakia -  West Germany 11 - 2 (annulled) 4-1,5-0,2-1
7 March   Switzerland -  Sweden 2 - 9 1-2,1-5,0-2
8 March   Switzerland -  Czechoslovakia 4 - 9 (annulled) 0-4,1-2,3-3
8 March  Sweden -  West Germany 8 - 6 4-1,3-3,1-2
10 March  Sweden -  Czechoslovakia 5 - 3 (annulled) 5-1,0-1,0-1
10 March  West Germany -   Switzerland 2 - 3 0-1,2-1,0-1
12 March  Sweden -   Switzerland 9 - 1 5-1,1-0,3-0
12 March  West Germany -  Czechoslovakia 4 - 9 (annulled) 2-4,1-2,1-3
13 March  Czechoslovakia -   Switzerland Cancelled
13 March  West Germany -  Sweden 2 - 12 0-2,1-5,1-5
15 March  Czechoslovakia -  Sweden Cancelled
15 March   Switzerland -  West Germany 3 - 7 2-4,0-1,1-2

Table

PlaceTeamGPWLTGFGAPts
1 Sweden440038118
2 West Germany413017262
3  Switzerland41309272
NC Czechoslovakia0000000

World Championships Group B (Switzerland)

Also participating was a Swiss 'B' team who (if their games counted) would have finished third.[2]

Date Matches B World Championships 1953 Result Period.
7 March  Italy -  Austria 9 - 5 3-1,4-3,2-1
7 March   Switzerland B -  Great Britain 1 - 3 1-0,0-1,0-2
8 March  Austria -  Netherlands 5 - 3 2-0,2-3,1-0
8 March   Switzerland B -  France 7 - 1 4-1,1-0,2-0
10 March  Great Britain -  Netherlands 8 - 4 4-2,1-2,3-0
10 March   Switzerland B -  Italy 1 - 2 1-0,0-0,0-2
11 March  Austria -  France 8 - 1 2-1,2-0,4-0
11 March  Italy -  Netherlands 7 - 0 4-0,1-0,2-0
12 March  Great Britain -  France 8 - 3 3-0,3-1,2-2
13 March  Great Britain -  Austria 3 - 0 1-0,1-0,1-0
13 March   Switzerland B -  Netherlands 7 - 5 1-1,5-2,1-2
14 March  Italy -  France 5 - 2 2-1,1-0,2-1
14 March   Switzerland B -  Austria 8 - 2 2-0,1-1,5-1
15 March  Netherlands -  France 8 - 3 4-1,2-1,2-1
15 March  Italy -  Great Britain 3 - 2 3-0,0-0,0-2

Table

Place Team Matches Won Drawn Lost Difference Points
4  Italy 5 5 0 0 26 - 10 10
5  Great Britain 5 4 0 1 24 - 11 8
NC   Switzerland B 5 3 0 2 24 - 13 6
6  Austria 5 2 0 3 20 - 24 4
7  Netherlands 5 1 0 4 20 - 30 2
8  France 5 0 0 5 10 - 36 0

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Duplacey P. 503
  2. ↑ Summary

References

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