Ice Hockey In Summer Olympics

Canada represented by the winnipeg falcons won the gold medal.

Ice hockey in summer olympics. The ice hockey competitions of the 2022 winter olympics will be played at two venues located in the beijing cluster. The matches were played between april 23 and april 29 1920. Unsurprisingly canada dominated the first tournaments. The tournament also served as the 1st world championships.

That was the only time the sport was played in the summer games after which it was moved to the winter games. When ice hockey was a summer sport. The wukesong arena seating 10 000 will also be used with both arenas was constructed for the 2008 summer olympics. Ice hockey was introduced to the olympic games at the 1920 summer olympics in antwerp.

The silver went to the united states and czechoslovakia took the bronze. The women s tournament was first held at the 1998 winter olympics. In its inaugural edition seven teams canada the united states czechoslovakia switzerland france sweden and belgium took part. Ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the olympic games since 1920.

Ice hockey at the summer olympics. Six a side men s ice hockey has been on the programme of every edition of the winter games since 1924 in chamonix. Women s ice hockey was accepted as an olympic sport in 1992 and made its official debut in 1998 in nagano. Ice hockey which is currently a part of the quadrennial winter olympics was first introduced in the summer olympics in 1920.

Ice hockey was introduced to the olympic games at the 1920 summer olympics in antwerp. The tournament also served as the 1st world championships. Several occurrences led to the sport s inclusion in the programme. The beijing national indoor stadium which seats 18 000 is one of what are being called olympic green venues.

The decision to include ice hockey for the 1920 summer olympics was made in january three months before the start of the games. Figure skating was not included on the olympic programme in 1912 but returned in antwerp in 1920 where it was joined for the first time by ice hockey. And canada at nagano 1998 sidney crosby s golden goal at vancouver 2010 and the u s canada women s overtime game at sochi 2014. Olympic men s ice hockey team won the silver medal in the first ever olympic ice hockey tournament.

The matches were played between april 23 and april 29 1920. The 1920 olympics took place from 20 august to 2 september but due to the impossibility of creating an ice rink in the middle of summer the two winter sports were instead contested in april at the city s palais de glace. At the 1914 olympic congress in paris ice hockey was added to the list of optional sports that olympics organizers could include. The men s tournament was introduced at the 1920 summer olympics and was transferred permanently to the winter olympic games programme in 1924.

Ice hockey spread to europe around the turn of the century and the first olympic games to include ice hockey for men were the 1920 antwerp summer games.