Russia Ice Hockey World Championship

Originally the three countries had bid for 2023 but the congress accepted a proposal to assign three world championships in a row with the first one going to russia s second biggest city of st.

Russia ice hockey world championship. The tournament was won by canada with rick nash being named the most valuable player mvp of the tournament. The 2019 iihf annual congress has assigned the hosting rights for the iihf ice hockey world championships between 2023 and 2025 to russia the czech republic and sweden. The cup of russia acted as an independent league title awarded in the russian hockey league first in 1997 before being merged with the russian championship in 2000. The biggest annual winter sports event will take place from 8 to 24 may 2020 in the cities of zurich and lausanne.

Petersburg will built the biggest ice hockey arena in the world to host the 2023 iihf ice hockey world championship. However the disastrous 2010 olympics and 2011 world championships led to bykov s removal. The recipient team of the cup is awarded an engraved trophy whereas the top 3 finalists of the russian championship are awarded gold silver and bronze medals. Ice hockey in russia is more than just ice hockey.

Moscow reuters the russian city of st petersburg will host the 2023 world ice hockey championship the russian hockey federation said in a statement on thursday. Surprisingly it didn t take root on russian soil straight away but only at the end of 1940s originally the russians preferred hockey with a ball. However the first soviet ice hockey championship took place in 1947 and in 1954 making its debut in the world championship the ussr team sensationally took gold. The russians would make another run in 2010 losing to the czech republic in the gold medal game.

The russian championship formerly soviet championship has acted as the national ice hockey title of russia since 1946. Face off between russia and switzerland at the last iihf ice hockey world championship. The international ice hockey federation iihf unveiled the game schedule of the 2020 iihf ice hockey world championship in switzerland on 1st august the country s national holiday. It is the national sport victory in which has always supported the prestige of the state.

It will take place from 21 may to 6 june 2021. The 2021 iihf world championship will be co hosted by minsk belarus and riga latvia as the iihf announced on 19 may 2017. Each city will host one group and two quarter final games with both semi finals and the medal games to be played in. Afterwards russia won the 2008 and 2009 world ice hockey championships with perfect records beating canada in the finals two times in a row.