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Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.
Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. It is played indoors with 96–115.5 cm-long (37.8–45.5 in) sticks and a 70–72 mm-diameter (2.76–2.83 in) hollow plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role in the game's development.
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Davos is an Alpine resort town and municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 10,832 (2020). Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Ranges.
The Bandy World Championship is a competition for the men's teams of bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy. It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup, a club competition, and from the Women's Bandy World Championship. A Youth Bandy World Championship also exists separately from the senior competition and has competitions in both the male and female categories.
The Federation of International Bandy is the international governing body for the sport of bandy, including the variant called rink bandy. The federation is headquartered in Karlstad Municipality, Sweden.
Hungary national bandy team is competing for Hungary in the international bandy tournaments.
The Dutch national bandy team represents the Netherlands in the sport of bandy.
The Canada national bandy team refers to the bandy teams representing Canada. Presently only the national men's senior team competes. There is the men's national team and the women's national team. The teams are overseen by Canada Bandy which is a member of the Federation of International Bandy (FIB). This article deals chiefly with the national men's team. For the women's team please see Canada women's national bandy team.
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1913 European Bandy Championships was, according to some sources, a European Championship tournament for national teams in bandy held in February 1913 in Saint-Moritz or in Davos, Switzerland. However, there are no known contemporary sources for this and the oldest known source for the competition being held is from a Swedish book on bandy from the 1970s, itself not citing any sources. It is likely that the information could be a mixup with the actual 1913 LIHG Championship in Saint Moritz or the actual 1913 Ice Hockey European Championship in Munich, which were ice hockey tournaments between ice hockey teams from different European countries.
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Czech Republic national bandy team is competing for the Czech Republic in the international bandy and rink bandy tournaments. It is run by the Czech Association of Bandy.
The Great Britain Bandy Association (GBBA) is the governing body of the sport of bandy in the United Kingdom. It is based in The Fens part of Cambridgeshire, East Anglia. Formerly, the federation was named Bandy Federation of England. After some years with less activity, the federation was restarted and given the name England Bandy Federation in January 2017. In September 2017 the present name was adopted, as the federation widened its scope to all of the UK.
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The four nation bandy tournament in 2014 was held as a centenary celebration of the 1913 European Bandy Championships.
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References
- ↑ "Members". Federation of International Bandy. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ↑ "Die Ergebnisse des Vier-Nationen-Turnier 5 und 6. Januar 2014 in Davos". Federation of Swiss Bandy. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ↑ "Unofficial European Championships 2013/14". Bandysidan. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ↑ "Internationellt: Stor glädje i Davos" (in Swedish). Idrottonline. 7 January 2014. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ↑ "Чемпионат мира среди женских команд - 2018 - Соревнования - Федерация хоккея с мячом России".
- ↑ "Resultat – Grupp B - Bandy World Championships 2019". Archived from the original on 2019-01-28. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
