The 2023 World Ringette Championships (''2023 WRC'') is an international

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tournament, the 15th (XV)

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, and will be contested in

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, Canada, from October 30 to November 4, 2023. The host venue for the event will be the

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(COP), WinSport Event Centre, and the Greater Calgary Arena. It will mark the 60th anniversary of the sport of ringette which was invented in 1963. The tournament is organized by the

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(IRF). The 2023 World Ringette Championships will feature teams from Team Canada and Team Finland who will compete in the national Junior U-21 Pool and the new U-18 Development tournament. As part of the competition, the President's Pool will include Team Sweden Senior, Team Czechia Senior, and the

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which are considered developing ringette nations. The IRF postponed the Senior Pool The Sam Jacks Series, until the 2025 World Ringette Championships. Therefore the general format for the world competition was changed: The U18 International Development Festival (Under-18), the U21 Junior Pool (Under-21), and a separate President's Pool for developing ringette nations.

Overview

To preserve the existing competition cycle, the

(IRF) committed to staging an international tournament in 2023. The tournament returns to Canada in 2023 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of ringette. The IRF has decided not to include the Sam Jacks pool (Senior Pool) in the 2023 tournament. It will return for the 2025 World Ringette Championships. The IRF will include the following at the 2023 tournament: * U21 World Junior Championship (existing) * President’s Pool World Championship (existing) * U18 International Development Event (new)

Junior U21 Pool

A Junior U-21 (Under 21) World Championship will be a pool featuring Team Canada U21 and Team Finland U21. The Juuso Wahlsten Trophy is awarded to the winner in the tournament and is named after Finland's, Juhani "Juuso" Wahlsten, who introduced ringette to Finland in 1979, the first European country to develop the sport.

U18 International Development Festival

Canada will host its first-ever U-18 International Development Festival, featuring athletes from multiple countries. The event will conclude with an international intersquad game, as well as Canada Red and Canada White games against Finland.

President's Pool

The President's Pool will include the national ringette teams of

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, Sweden, and the

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. The President's Pool competition is designed to help develop emerging ringette nations. The

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is the award presented to the best team in this tournament.

Senior Program

During the 2023 World Championship,

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's senior program will participate in two Red-White scrimmages. However, the Senior Pool itself, the "Sam Jacks Series" is postponed until the 2025 World Ringette Championships.

Teams

(*) = The Senior Pool is postponed for this tournament but returns for the 2025 World Ringette Championships. It is replaced for the 2023 WRC with two scrimmages between two Canadian teams, Team Canada Senior Red and Team Canada Senior White.

Competing nations

Venues

The tournament will be contested in

, Canada at the

(COP), WinSport Event Centre, and the Greater Calgary Arena.

Rosters

Junior U21

Team Canada Junior

Players, team coaching and support staff for 2023 Team Canada Junior U21 are as follows:

Team Finland Junior

Team coaching and support staff for the 2023 Team Finland Junior U21 are as follows:

Senior

Team Canada Senior

U18

Team Canada U18 White

Players, team coaching and support staff for 2023 Team Canada U18 White are as follows:

Team Canada U18 Black

Players, team coaching and support staff for 2023 Team Canada U18 Black are as follows:

Team Finland U18

References

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