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The gold medal-winning Winnipeg Falcons (representing Canada), pictured en route to the 1920 Olympics, which were counted as the first ice hockey World Championships IIHF World Championship Cup IIHF third place trophy. The Ice Hockey World Championships is an annual event held by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). It was preceded ...
Picture of the gold medal-winning Winnipeg Falcons (representing Canada) taken en route to the 1920 Summer Olympics. Ice hockey is a sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games. A men's ice hockey tournament has been held every Winter Olympics (starting in 1924); an ice hockey tournament was also held at the 1920 Summer Olympics. [1]
A preliminary round involving 11 teams was played, then the top four advanced to the medal round and medals were awarded based on points; no gold medal game was played. A gold medal game was played in 1938; it was the last gold medal game played in the World Championships until 1992. [110] Timing of annual Champion Group tournament
There are three components of the Triple Gold Club (clockwise from top left): an Olympic Games gold medal, the Stanley Cup and a World Championship gold medal.. The Triple Gold Club is the group of ice hockey players and coaches who have won an Olympic Games gold medal, a World Championship gold medal, and the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Historically, the tournament has been dominated by Canada (20 gold medals) and the Soviet Union/CIS/Russia (13 gold medals). The USSR won the first four official tournaments, while the Canadians put together five straight championships between 1993 and 1997, and another five straight from 2005 to 2009.
Largely unknown to the larger hockey world, the team surprised many by winning the gold medal, defeating Canada in the final game. [5] In 2013, the Soviet national team was awarded the IIHF Milestone Award for winning the gold medal, [ 6 ] in their first appearance at the World Championships and the beginning of a rivalry versus Canada.
List of Olympic medalists in hockey may refer to: List of Olympic medalists in field hockey; List of Olympic medalists in ice hockey This page was last edited on 14 ...
Canada is the leading national ice hockey team in international play, having won the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union, a record four Canada Cups dating back to 1976, a record two World Cups of Hockey, a record nine Olympic gold medals, and a record 28 World Championship titles.