Norway national bandy team ( no, Norges herrelandslag i bandy) represents
Norway
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in the sport of
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 ...
. The country has both a men's national team and a
women's national team. This article deals chiefly with the men's national team.
Norway, Finland and Sweden played bandy at the
Winter Olympics in Oslo in 1952. After having seen them there, the Soviet Union invited these three countries to a
four nation bandy tournament in 1954 Four nation bandy tournament in 1954 was a tournament of friendlies played in Moscow, Soviet Union, in February 1954, contested by Finland, Norway, the Soviet Union and Sweden. Sweden won the tournament.
The Soviet Union invited the other three cou ...
. This was the first time a Soviet national bandy team met other national bandy teams. The four countries used somewhat different rules prior to this tournament, but the rules were adjusted to be the same for the future.
Norway has been competing in the
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 W ...
since the second tournament in
1961
Events January
* January 3
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. Norway finished in second place in
1965
Events January–February
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and in third place
1993.
Norway's best result in the
Russian Government Cup
Russian Government Cup was a tournament for national teams in bandy, arranged in Russia every other year from 1972 until 2012. The cup has not been played since 2012.
When the Bandy World Championships were held every other year, this tournament w ...
is a second place in 1994.
World Championship record
Current squad
Norwegian squad at the
2014 World Championship in
Irkutsk
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,
Russia
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, January 26 – February 2, 2014.
References
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National bandy teams
Bandy in Norway
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 ...