Ice Hockey Olympics Medals

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Ice hockey olympics medals. In fact all gold medals from the year 1920 to the year 1952 including were won by canada with only one exception in the year 1936 the gold medal was won by great britain. The first gold medal was won by canada. Won gold in 1960 and 1980 when college players defeated the ussr in the miracle on ice. 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 2006 winter olympics was held at the torino palasport olimpico and the torino esposizioni in turin italy the men s competition held from 15 to 26 february was won by sweden and the women s competition held from 11 to 20 february was won by canada. 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 international ice hockey federation iihf the sport s governing body was created on 15 may 1908 and was known as the ligue internationale de hockey sur glace lihg until 1947. Duggan 33 who captained three olympic teams won silver in 2010 and.

Highlights from the bolshoy ice dome as sweden take on finland in the gold medal final of the men s ice hockey event at the sochi 2014 olympic games. The soviet union began competing at the olympics in 1956 and won nine straight olympic medals including seven gold. Men s olympic team has won two gold medals eight silver medals and one bronze medal. The medal table as of 2014 after.

The ice hockey competitions of the 2014 winter olympics were played at two venues located 300 meters from the other within the olympic park in sochi russia the bolshoy ice dome which seats 12 000 resembles a fabergé egg. Tretiak anatoli firsov viktor kuzkin andrei khomutov alexander ragulin and vitali davydov. The first olympic ice hockey tournament took place at the 1920 summer olympics in antwerp belgium. Medals gold canada silver sweden.

This was the only time when ice hockey was played as a part of the summer olympics games. The ice hockey world championships are an annual international men s ice hockey tournament organized by the international ice hockey federation iihf. Six have won three gold medals. The shayba arena seating 7 000 and planned as a moveable structure as yet not moved from its olympic park site.

From 1920 to 1952 teams from canada dominated the men s tournament winning six gold and one silver medal.