2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships
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The 6th IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships Pool A is scheduled to be held in Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre in Hamar
Hamar
is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hamar. The municipality of Hamar was separated from Vang as a town and municipality of its own in 1849...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 in 2012. It will be the first time that Norway hosts the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships
IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships
The IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships are the world championships for Ice Sledge Hockey. They are organised by IPC Sledge Hockey .The first sanctioned Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships was held in Nynäshamn, Sweden in 1996.-Champions:...

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The 6th IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships Pool B , featuring GB, Russia, Holland, Poland, Germany and Estonia will be held at the Planet Ice Skydome in Coventry
Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 in May 2012. It will be the first time that England hosts the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships
IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships
The IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships are the world championships for Ice Sledge Hockey. They are organised by IPC Sledge Hockey .The first sanctioned Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships was held in Nynäshamn, Sweden in 1996.-Champions:...

. The event will provide a link between the Winter Paralympic games in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

 in 2010, the London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

 2012 Summer Paralympic games and the 2014 Winter Paralympic games being held in Sochi
Sochi
Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated just north of Russia's border with the de facto independent republic of Abkhazia, on the Black Sea coast. Greater Sochi sprawls for along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains...

. It will be the first time that Russia have competed in an ice sledge hockey world championships as well as being the first time that England has hosted an IPC winter sports event.
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