Canada national bandy team

Canada national bandy team
Medal record
Bandy World Championship

Canada
	Team Canada (1991); World bandy debut at the; 1991 Bandy World Championship
Association	Canada Bandy
Head coach	Göran Svensson
Team colors
Home colours	Away colours
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
Appearances	15 (first in 1991)
Best result	6th (1991, 1993)

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^[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	Winnipeg
GK	29	Ronnie Lintic	Nature Boys
DF	47	Costa Cholakis	Winnipeg
DF	25	Chris Karasewich	Winnipeg
DF	28	Jeremy Ross	Winnipeg
MF	25	Drew Ellement	Winnipeg
MF	25	Brady Fisher	Winnipeg
MF	29	Brett Gavrailoff	Winnipeg
MF	25	Curtis Krul	Winnipeg
MF	25	Jeff Krul	Winnipeg
MF	27	John Murray	Winnipeg
FW	25	Brandon Ellement	Winnipeg
FW	25	Colin Hekle	Winnipeg
FW	27	Steve Landerville	Winnipeg
FW	28	Nick Mazurak	Winnipeg
FW	28	Brook Robson	Winnipeg
FW	24	Brendon Sedo	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

Team Canada (1991) - World bandy debut at the 1991 Bandy World Championship in Helsinki, Finland
Team Canada (2012) at the 2012 Bandy World Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan

References

^ ^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.
^ "Canada Bandy | History of Bandy". canadabandy.ca. Canada Bandy. 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
^ "History of Canadian Bandy". globalbandy.proboards.com/. proboards.com. 21 May 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
^ Abi Saper (23 February 2011). "Silver medal not a bad showing for bandy team with no rink". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
^ "Bandy: A New Olympic Sport?". Youtube. Shaw TV/Go Winnipeg. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
^ Chris Halden (15 January 2016). "Team USA Defeats Canada 6-2 in Annual Border Battle". usabandy.com. USA Bandy. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
^ 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.
^ "Welcome to www.canadabandy.ca". Archived from the original on 21 June 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2008.
^ Prest, Ashley (26 January 2010). "Bandy's dandy, and travelling the world is OK, too". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
^ Teams Archived 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine 2014 Bandy World Championship Official Homepage. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
^ "Teams". Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
^ "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.
^ Playing schedule of WCS Group B
^ Geary, Aidan (29 January 2017). "'Total euphoria' as Team Canada brings home world cup for bandy (CBC web site)". Retrieved 3 February 2017.
^ YouTube video with the goals from the final
^ "The national team of Canada won't come to Khabarovsk again". Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2017.

External links

[2010Russia-1] "«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.

[Winnipeg_Free_Press_02-05-2005-7] 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.

[Winnipeg_Free_Press_Jan._26,_2010-9] 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

[Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation,_Jan._29,_2017-14] 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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