Women's Bandy World Championship

Bandy World Championship for women

Most recent season or competition: 2016 Women's Bandy World Championship
Sport	Bandy
Inaugural season	2004
No. of teams	7
Countries	World
Most recent champion(s)	Sweden (7th title)
Most titles	Sweden (7 titles)
Official website	worldbandy.com

A bandy international between Finland and Norway in the 2004 Women's World Championships in Lappeenranta

The Women's Bandy World Championships are a competition between bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy. It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup Women, a club competition.

Although bandy has been played since the 19th century and was played by both men and women from the start, the first men's world championship were only played in 1957, and the first women ones were only in 2004.

Participating nations

Sweden, Russia, Finland, Norway and USA have participated in every tournament, Canada in all except the first one, Hungary in two and China debuted in 2016.^[1] The record number of participants are 7, in 2007, 2008 and 2016.

Participating teams

G = gold, S = silver, B = bronze, X = took part, but won no medal

Team	04	06	07	08	10	12	14	16
Finland	B	X	X	B	X	B	B	X
Norway	X	B	B	X	B	X	X	B
Russia	S	S	S	S	S	S	G	S
Sweden	G	G	G	G	G	G	S	G
United States	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Canada		X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Hungary			X	X
China								X

Top results year by year

Year	Final Venue		Gold medal	Result	Silver medal		Bronze medal	Result	Fourth place
2004[2] Details	Lappeenranta		Sweden	7–0	Russia		Finland	8–1	Norway
2006[3] Details	Roseville		Sweden	3–1	Russia		Norway	2–1	Finland
2007[4] Details	Budapest		Sweden	3–2	Russia		Norway	4–3 (ps)	Canada
2008[5] Details	Borlänge		Sweden	5–2	Russia		Finland	5–3	Norway
2010[6] Details	Drammen		Sweden	3–2	Russia		Norway	3–2	Canada
2012[7] Details	Irkutsk		Sweden	5–3	Russia		Finland	4–1	Canada
2014 Details	Lappeenranta		Russia	3–1	Sweden		Finland	3–2	Norway
2016 Details	Roseville		Sweden	1–0	Russia		Norway	3–2	Canada
2018 Details	Chengde[8][9][10]		TBD		TBD		TBD		TBD

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden	7	1	0	8
2	Russia	1	7	0	8
3	Finland	0	0	4	4
	Norway	0	0	4	4

References

1. Bandyvesti
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8. rusbandy.ru