Bandy World Championship 2004
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The Bandy World Championship 2004 was a competition between Bandy
playing nations. The men's tournament was played in Sweden on 1–8 February 2004 for Group A and Group B was played in Hungary from the 25–28 February 2004 Finland won the championship for the 1st time. There were 11 Bandy
playing countries participating in the 2004 championships: Finland, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia, Sweden (group A) and Belarus, Canada, Estonia, Hungary, The Netherlands and The United States (group B).
Finland - Norway 5 - 3
Sweden - Russia 4 - 3
Bandy
Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...
playing nations. The men's tournament was played in Sweden on 1–8 February 2004 for Group A and Group B was played in Hungary from the 25–28 February 2004 Finland won the championship for the 1st time. There were 11 Bandy
Bandy
Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...
playing countries participating in the 2004 championships: Finland, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia, Sweden (group A) and Belarus, Canada, Estonia, Hungary, The Netherlands and The United States (group B).
Premier tour
- 1 February
- Sweden - Kazakhstan 14 - 2
- Russia - Norway 6 - 3
- 2 February
- Kazakhstan - Russia 3 - 10
- Sweden - Finland 7 - 1
- 3 February
Finland - Norway 5 - 3
Sweden - Russia 4 - 3
- 4 February
- Kazakhstan - Norway 4 - 4
- Russia - Finland 3 - 4
- 5 February
- Finland - Kazakhstan 3 - 7
- Sweden - Norway 6 - 6
| Rank | Country | Pts | W | T | L | Bp | Bc | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 12 | +19 | |
| 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 14 | +8 | |
| 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 20 | -7 | |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 31 | -15 | |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 21 | -5 |
Premier tour
- 25 February
- Canada - USA 3 - 4
- Hungary - Estonia 2 - 3
- Belarus - Netherlands 7 - 0
- Estonia - Canada 2 - 6
- Hungary - USA 1 - 10
- 26 February
- Belarus - Estonia 2 - 1
- Netherlands - USA 0 - 12
- Belarus - Canada 3 - 2
- Estonia - USA 0 - 10
- Hungary - Netherlands 4 - 1
- 27 February
- Hungary - Belarus 4 - 2
- Netherlands - Canada 1 - 6
- Belarus - USA 1 - 6
- Netherlands - Estonia 0 - 6
- Hungary - Canada 3 - 3
| Rank | Country | Pts | W | T | L | Bp | Bc | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 5 | +37 | |
| 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 13 | +2 | |
| 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 13 | +7 | |
| 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 19 | -5 | |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 20 | -8 | |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 35 | -33 |