The Ice Hockey European Championship was an annual
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
tournament for European countries associated with the
International Ice Hockey Federation
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; french: Fédération internationale de hockey sur glace; german: Internationale Eishockey-Föderation) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 83 m ...
. A total of 66 European Champions were crowned in between the years 1910 and 1991.
Independent championship tournaments were organized between 1910 and 1927, and again in 1929 and 1932. The 1928 European Championships medals were awarded to the European participants of the
Olympic tournament in St. Moritz. After 1932, the European Championship was awarded to the top European team among the participants in the
Ice Hockey World Championships
The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it is the sport's highest profile annua ...
. Until 1970, the final standings for the European Championship was determined simply by where European teams placed in the World Championships. Starting in 1971, a separate final standings was maintained, determined by using only the games played between European teams at the World Championships.
Between 1954 and 1991, in all but five tournaments, the only three teams to medal were the
Soviets
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,
Czechoslovakia
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, and
Sweden
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. The Soviets led all European countries with 27 championships in that span.
There were no European (or World) Championships awarded in the Olympic years 1980, 1984, and 1988.
Results
European Medalists from combined events
Medal table
See also
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Euro Hockey Tour
The Euro Hockey Tour (EHT) is an annual ice hockey tournament open to only the national men's teams of Czechia, Finland, Switzerland and Sweden. Most of the teams use the competition as a preparation for the upcoming World Championships or Olym ...
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IIHF European Women Championships
The IIHF European Women Championships is a former international women's ice hockey tournament between ice hockey playing nations in Europe. Finland's national women's team won the championship title four times and Sweden women's national ice hoc ...
References
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European championships
The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...
International Ice Hockey Federation tournaments
European championships
Defunct ice hockey competitions in Europe
Recurring sporting events established in 1910
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1991