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Ice Hockey At The 2012 Winter Youth Olympics – Boys' Tournament
The boys' ice hockey tournament at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics was held from 13 to 22 January at the Tyrolean Ice Arena in Innsbruck, Austria. Teams from five national hockey associations competed, in one single preliminary round group. The tournament consisted of 14 games: 10 in the preliminary round (teams played all other teams); 2 semifinal games; 1 bronze medal game; and 1 gold medal game. All games were played in three 15-minute periods, as opposed to the traditional 20-minute periods. Qualification The top eight teams in the 2011 IIHF World Ranking will choose which tournament (either boys' or girls') they want to compete in. First priority is given to higher ranked nations. Rosters Each country is allowed to enter 17 athletes each. Preliminary round ''All times are local (UTC+1 UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+01:00. This time is used in: *Central Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland Men's National Under-16 Ice Hockey Team
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are Finns, ethnic Finns. Finnish language, Finnish, alongside Swedish language, Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental climate, humid continental in the south to the boreal climate, boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded List of lakes of Finland, lakes. Finland was first inh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
