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(''Senior'')

Junior:

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('' President's Pool'')
, Largest win = , Largest loss = , World champ2 name =

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, World champ2 apps = Junior: 1
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Senior: 12 excluding 1998 Summit Series , World champ2 first =

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team representing

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internationally. Sweden has both a senior national ringette team and a junior national ringette team. Both Team Sweden Senior and Team Sweden Junior are overseen by the

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(SRA), ( sv, Svenska Ringetteförbundet) and compete in the

(WRC). The SRA is a member of the

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(IRF). Sweden's first appearance in international ringette took place at the second World Ringette Championships in 1992.

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is Team Sweden's arch-rival with both teams competing in the President's Pool against Team Czech. Though Sweden joined the IRF in 1986, which at the time was known as the "World Ringette Council", the Sweden Ringette Association was not formed until 1994, then was elected as an associate member of the

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in 2003.

History

Team Sweden (now Team Sweden Senior) made its international ringette debut in

at the second

(WRC) in

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, Finland, where the 1992 Sweden team finished in sixth place. At the time there was only one division where athletes could compete and was reserved strictly for women. While the World Junior Ringette Championships first began in

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and occurred again in

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, Sweden never sent a junior team to compete at either world tournament. The world junior tournament merged with the world championship program for senior teams in

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where world titles for a Senior Pool, Junior Pool, and President's Pool were contested. There was an exception in WRC 2016 whereby the Team Sweden Senior competed the Senior Pool and Team Sweden Junior competed in the Junior Pool. Sweden's first junior national team (U19) was formed in

and competed in the 2016 World Ringette Championships. They did not compete in

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and have yet to return to the world stage.

World Championship record

Senior Sweden

Junior Sweden

Team Sweden Senior

Team Sweden (Senior) made its world debut at the second

(WRC) in

. The senior team has competed in every WRC with the exception of the world competition's inaugural year in

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, the 1998 World Ringette Championships which was replaced by a 1998 Summit series between Team Canada and Team Finland, and the

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when the tournament was cancelled due to

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1998 Seniors

The 1998 World Ringette Championships were initially meant to be held in

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, Canada. Instead a promotional five game ringette "Summit Series" tour of Europe was organized with a series of games between a Team Canada, and Team Finland between February 27 and March 7, 1998. Team Sweden Senior did not compete that year.

Team Sweden Junior

Team Sweden Junior (U19) made its first world appearance at the 2016 World Ringette Championships in

, Finland. However, Sweden has yet to field another junior national team and has not returned to the world stage as of yet.

References

Ringette players