The Mongolian national bandy team is controlled by the

Bandy Federation of Mongolia Bandy Federation of Mongolia is the governing body for bandy in Mongolia. Its headquarters is in Bayangol district. Bandy Federation of Mongolia became a member of Federation of International Bandy in 2002. National team * References Mongol ...

. The team took part in its first

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. They won the 1st match against

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, but lost all subsequent games including the match for the 4th place in Group B against the

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. Mongolia thus was classified fifth in the B Group championship, ahead of only Estonia. In 2011, when

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 ...

for men was on the programme at the Asian Winter Games, they chose only that tournament, where they finished 2nd, because of financial difficulties to participate in both. After that the team was not financed and didn't play for a few years, although it was chosen as the best Mongolian sport team of 2011. During the season of 2013-14 the team gathered again for the World Championship 2014, where they finished sixth (out of nine) in Division B. In the World Championship 2016 the team finished fourth out of ten in Division B after narrowly losing both the semi-final and third place match. In the World Championship 2017 the team again narrowly lost the semi-final. However, the third place match resulted in a victory after extra-time,The whole bronze game on YouTube
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References

External links

FIB Country Profile

National bandy teams

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