Bandy was held as a demonstration sport at the 1952 Winter Olympics in

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. A men's program was included but not a women's program. Sweden,

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and

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participated with their best players and won one match each. Sweden won the tournament thanks to the best goal difference, with Norway second and Finland third. The three participating countries regularly played friendlies, but this was the first official international bandy tournament since 1913. Though bandy was played in the

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, they did not partake in the event because they did not compete in any international bandy competitions at that point. While agreements had previously been made to play friendlies against Sweden in the late 1940s, the plans did not come to fruition.Eric Sköld (ed.): Boken om bandy, Uppsala: Bygd och Folk Förlag (1948), p. 183 (in Swedish) The Olympic bandy games were noticed by the sport's leaders from the Soviet Union, who invited the three Nordic countries to a friendly

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. The first men's

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s were not held until five years later, in 1957.

Medalists

Results

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Final rankings

References

External links

1952 Winter Olympics
pp. 215–216, 256 {{Sports country lists Olympics Discontinued sports at the Winter Olympics 1952 Winter Olympics events 1952 in bandy International bandy competitions hosted by Norway Men's events at the 1952 Winter Olympics