The 1973 Bandy World Championship was the eighth
Bandy World Championship
The Bandy World Championship is a competition between bandy-playing nations' men's teams. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy. It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup, a club competition, and from the Wome ...
and was contested between four men's
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
playing nations. The championship was played in
Moscow
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and
Krasnogorsk (
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
) on February 17–24, 1973. The
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
became champions.
Participants
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Premier tour
* 17 February
: Sweden-Finland 5–4
: Soviet Union – Norway 11–0
* 18 February
: Sweden – Norway 3–1
: Soviet Union – Finland 8–3
* 20 February
: Soviet Union – Sweden 5–1
: Finland – Norway 3–2
* 21 February
: Finland – Sweden 0–8
: Soviet Union – Norway 4–0
* 23 February
: Norway – Sweden 1–4
: Soviet Union – Finland 3–0
* 24 February
: Soviet Union – Sweden 1–0
: Norway – Finland 4–3
References
{{Bandy World Championships
1973 in bandy
International bandy competitions hosted by the Soviet Union
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
1973 in Soviet sport
February 1973 sports events in Europe