The Women's Bandy World Championships is an international sports tournament for women and the premier international competition for women's
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, 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 playin ...
among bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the
Federation of International Bandy
The Federation of International Bandy (FIB; , , ) is the international governing body for the sport of bandy, including the variant called rink bandy. The federation is headquartered in Karlstad Municipality, Sweden.
History
Bandy as known tod ...
.
It is distinct from the
Bandy World Cup Women which is a women's club competition, the
Bandy World Cup
The Bandy World Cup is an international bandy competition played in Sweden at the beginning of the bandy season every year, in autumn. The participating teams qualify based on their results in the previous bandy season.
The World Cup is not playe ...
which is a club competition for men, and from the
Bandy World Championship which is the premier international bandy competition for men's teams.
A
Youth Bandy World Championship also exists separately from the women's senior competition and has competitions in both the male and female categories, with the
F17 WC tournament representing the youth World Championship in bandy for girls up to 17 years of age.
Although the sport of bandy has been played by both men and women since the 19th century, the first
men's world championship didn't take place until 1957, and the first official women's international bandy tournament only began in 2004. However, an international match between women's bandy teams from Sweden and Finland took place in
Helsinki, Finland
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in 1935 at the
Helsinki Ice Stadium, where a portion of the match was captured by
British Pathé
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. The archival short film has been uploaded and published on the video sharing site, YouTube.
In 2023, the tournament will for the first time take place at the same time in the same arena as the equivalent among men.
Participating nations
Until 2020,
Sweden
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,
Russia
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,
Finland
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,
Norway
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and
USA have participated in every tournament,
Canada
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in most of them,
Hungary
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in two and
China
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debuted in 2016. The record number of participants were 8, in 2018 and 2020. Estonia and Switzerland debuted in 2018, and Japan in 2020. Ukraine is scheduled to make its debut in 2023.
Participation details
Results
Medal table
Bandy World Championship G-17
The
Bandy World Championship G-17 or U17 (under 17) world championship in bandy for women, known as F17 WC and
U17-världsmästerskapet i bandy för damer in Sweden, is the youth world championship in
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, 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 playin ...
for girls up to 17 years of age. The competition is held separately from the World Bandy Women's Championship which is for adults. G17 is sometimes written as F17 and the Y designations may also be written with a U.
The
Youth Bandy World Championship is a tournament for girls' teams up to the age of 17 years. FC 17 is the only age group for which the world championship in bandy for young female players is held. The first tournament was held in 2009 and has since been held every two years.
Normally only teams from the main bandy countries of
Finland
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, Norway, Russia and Sweden participate, but the United States has participated a few times and at the tournament in
Irkutsk
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2017, a China U17 team made its debut.
U17 medal table
Gallery
Norges damelandslag i bandy 2006.jpg, The Norwegian team celebrating the bronze medal in WCS 2006
See also
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Bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, 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 playin ...
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Rink bandy
Rink bandy is a variant of the larger sport of bandy. Unlike bandy which is played on a large bandy field, rink bandy is played on significantly smaller ice hockey-sized ice rinks.
While a bandy field is about the same size as a football pi ...
Women's Bandy World Championship
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Sweden women's national bandy team
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Russia women's national bandy team
Russia women's national bandy team is the women's team representing Russia in the sport of bandy. The team competes in the Women's Bandy World Championship.
On the International Olympic Committee's recommendations following the 2022 Russian invasi ...
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Finland women's national bandy team
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Norway women's national bandy team
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United States women's national bandy team
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Switzerland women's national bandy team
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China women's national bandy team
China women's national bandy team represents China in the sport of bandy. It is governed by the China Bandy Federation. It made its Women's Bandy World Championship, World Championship debut in the 2016 Women's Bandy World Championship, 2016 tourna ...
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Canada women's national bandy team
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Hungary women's national bandy team
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Soviet Union women's national bandy team
References
{{Main world championships
Bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, 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 playin ...
World Championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...
Recurring sporting events established in 2004
February in sports
Women's bandy