Bandy at the 1952 Winter Olympics
| File:Bandy pictogram.svg | |
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway |
| Venue(s) | 2 (in 1 host city) |
| Dates | 20–23 February |
| Teams | 3 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions File:Gold medal blank.svg | File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden (1st title) |
| Runner-up File:Silver medal blank.svg | File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway |
| Third place File:Bronze medal blank.svg | File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Games played | 3 |
| Goals scored | 12 (4 per game) |
Bandy was held as a demonstration sport at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. A men's program was included but not a women's program. Sweden, Norway and Finland participated with their best players and won one match each. All three teams also lost a match apiece. 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.[citation needed] Though bandy was played in the Soviet Union, 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.[1] The Olympic bandy games were noticed by the sport's leaders from the Soviet Union, who invited the three Nordic countries to a friendly four-nation bandy tournament in 1954. The first men's Bandy World Championships were not held until five years later, in 1957.
Medalists
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
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File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway
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File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland
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Results
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 2 |
| 2 | File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 2 |
Final rankings
| 1st place, gold medalist(s) | File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden |
| 2nd place, silver medalist(s) | File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway |
| 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) | File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland |
References
- ↑ Eric Sköld (ed.): Boken om bandy, Uppsala: Bygd och Folk Förlag (1948), p. 183 (in Swedish)
External links
- 1952 Winter Olympics pp. 215–216, 256
