Canada Ice Hockey Medals

Canada is the leading national ice hockey team in international play winners of the 1972 summit series against the soviet union four of five canada cups dating back to 1976 nine olympic gold medals the most in the world including three of the last five.

Canada ice hockey medals. Their primary participation in this age group comes at the international ice hockey federation s world junior championship held annually every december and january the team also participates in various exhibition matches and occasional exhibition series. Canada has been a dominant figure in international competition having won the majority of major ice hockey tournaments. The ice hockey world championships are an annual international men s ice hockey tournament organized by the international ice hockey federation iihf. The team is overseen by hockey canada a member of the international ice hockey federation and participates in international competitions.

From the mid 50s through the late 1980s the soviet union owned olympic ice hockey winning seven gold medals over the course of nine olympic tournaments. The soviets won seven gold medals in nine tournaments. The canadian men s national under 20 ice hockey team is the ice hockey team representing canada internationally in under 20 competition. Women s ice hockey was introduced at the nagano olympics in 1998 with canada winning the silver medal.

Tretiak anatoli firsov viktor kuzkin andrei khomutov alexander ragulin and vitali davydov. Canada has topped the podium four times 2002 2006 2010 2014 taking silver against the. Salt lake city 2002 vancouver 2010 and sochi 2014. The soviet union began competing at the olympics in 1956 and won nine straight olympic medals including seven gold.

During that period canada won a silver and two bronze medals. First officially held at the 1920 summer olympics it is the sport s highest profile annual international tournament the iihf was created in 1908 while the european championships the precursor to the world championships were first held in 1910. Ice hockey at the 2002 winter olympics was held at the e center in west valley city and peaks ice arena in provo utah the men s and women s tournaments were won by canada who defeated the host united states in both finals. But its domination was not to last.

The canadian women s national ice hockey team is the ice hockey team representing canada in women s hockey. From 1920 to 1952 teams from canada dominated the men s tournament winning six gold and one silver medal. Canada has appeared in every olympic gold medal game facing the united states five times 1998 2002 2010 2014 2018 and sweden once 2006. The soviet union began competing in 1956 and frequently defeated the canadian team.

Six have won three gold medals.