The 2007 Bandy World Championship was held in Kemerovo, Russia from 27 January to 4 February. Men's national teams from 12 countries participated in the 2007 tournament: Belarus, Finland, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia, Sweden (group A) and Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Mongolia, the Netherlands and the United States (group B). Canada was initially also supposed to take part in the tournament, but withdrew so Latvia took its place. Belarus retained their place in group A by beating the United States in a playoff at the end of the previous tournament held in 2006. Russia won the World Cup for the fourth time in its history. Belarus retained their place in Group A after defeating Group B champions the United States.
Participating teams
Division A
Division B
Division A Preliminary round
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Statistics Goalscorers 19 goals
Sergey Obukhov
16 goals
David Karlsson
14 goals
Daniel Andersson
13 goals
Yevgeny Ivanushkin Sami Laakkonen Pavel Ryazantsev
12 goals
Vyacheslav Bronnikov
11 goals
Sergey Lomanov, Jr.
9 goals
Denis Kriushenkov
7 goals
Sergey Tarasov
6 goals
Marcus Bergwall Jonas Edling Ivan Maksimov
5 goals
Ville Aaltonen Johan Andersson Sergey Chernetsky Kjetil Johansen Christer Lystad Andrey Morikov Mikhail Sveshnikov
4 goals
Mikko Aarni Maksim Chermnykh Denis In-Fa-Lin Rasmus Lindqvist Thomas Moen Mika Mutikainen
3 goals
Stefan Erixon Påhl Hanssen Samuli Niskanen Evgenij Sviridov Anton Zybarev
2 goals
Marius Austad Olov Englund Per Hellmyrs Rauan Isaliev Daniel Mossberg Magnus Muhrén Vladislav Novozhilov Pekka Rintala
Dmitry Starikov Yury Stepochkin Aleksandr Tyukavin Yury Vikulin Dmitrij Zavidovskij Igor Zolotarev
1 goal
Hans Andersson Kjetil Bergh Vadim Bogdanovich Artem Botvenkov Mikhail Dobrynin Aleksandr Dryagin Antti Ekman Stian Holmen-Jensen Kimmo Huotelin Petteri Lampinen Jan Magnus Olaisen Tommi Österberg Anders Östling Yury Pogrebnoy Roman Poloskin Denis Slautin Mikhail Tarasenko Christian Waaler Alexei Zagarskikh Alexej Zolotarev
Division B
All Division B games 2x30 minute halves apart from A6-B1 playoff which is of regular 2x45 minute halves Preliminary round
28 January Netherlands – USA 0–11 Latvia – Mongolia 5–0 Estonia – Hungary 2–4 Netherlands – Mongolia 2–2
29 January Hungary – Latvia 0–7 USA – Mongolia 8–0 Netherlands – Estonia 5–1 USA – Hungary 12–2
30 January Estonia – Mongolia 5–0 USA – Latvia 6–1 Netherlands – Hungary 2–3 Estonia – Latvia 1–7
31 January USA – Estonia 14–2 Netherlands – Latvia 1–6 Hungary – Mongolia 2–2
Final round 1 February and 2 February Estonia – Mongolia 1–4, 2–2 Netherlands – Hungary 3–1, 4–3 Latvia – USA 0–5, 6–2
Division A play-off Belarus – USA 9–1
See also Bandy World Championship
References
External links Bandy World Championship site