Bandy World Championship 2012

World Cup 2012 Kazakhstan
gold	Sweden
silver	Russia
bronze	Kazakhstan
4th	Finland
5.	Norway
6th	United States
7th	Belarus
8th.	Canada
9.	Hungary
10.	Netherlands
11.	Latvia
12.	Estonia
13.	Japan
14th	Kyrgyzstan

The 32nd Bandy World Championship took place from January 29 to February 5, 2012 near Almaty, Kazakhstan .

The world association had awarded the World Cup to Almaty in January 2011. The venue for the A-World Championship games is the Medeo stadium . The games of the B World Championship will take place in the central stadium of Almaty. In 2011 the bandy game of the Winter Asian Games 2011 took place in the Medeo .

Sweden defeated defending champions Russia 5-4 in the final. Kazakhstan secured bronze with a 10: 5 over Finland in the small final.

Participating teams

	A world championship			B world championship			C world championship
Europe	Finland	Russia		Latvia	Netherlands		Estonia	Lithuania
	Norway	Sweden		Hungary	Belarus
North America	United States			Canada
Asia	Kazakhstan			Mongolia			Japan	Kyrgyzstan

A world championship

Group stage

Pl.		Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1.	Russia	5	5	0	0	54:16	+38	10
2.	Sweden	5	4th	0	1	49: 7	+42	8th
3.	Kazakhstan	5	3	0	2	40:25	+15	6th
4th	Finland	5	2	0	3	22:30	−8	4th
5.	Norway	5	1	0	4th	10:50	−40	2
6th	United States	5	0	0	5	9:60	−53	0

January 29, 2012	Sweden	12: 0 (6: 0)	Finland
January 29, 2012	Russia	19: 3 (12: 3)	United States
January 29, 2012	Kazakhstan	10: 1 (5: 1)	Norway
January 30, 2012	Norway	0:11 (0: 6)	Sweden
January 30, 2012	Russia	5: 4 (2: 0)	Finland
January 30, 2012	United States	3:13 (1: 6)	Kazakhstan
January 31, 2012	Finland	7: 1 (2: 1)	United States
January 31, 2012	Russia	16: 1 (9: 1)	Norway
January 31, 2012	Kazakhstan	1: 9 (0: 5)	Sweden
February 1, 2012	Finland	7: 2 (3: 1)	Norway
February 1, 2012	Sweden	15: 0 (8: 0)	United States
February 1, 2012	Russia	8: 6 (4: 4)	Kazakhstan
February 2, 2012	United States	3: 6 (1: 3)	Norway
February 2, 2012	Kazakhstan	10: 4 (5: 1)	Finland
February 2, 2012	Sweden	2: 6 (2: 3)	Russia

Finals

Semifinals

Due to heavy snowfall, both semi-finals were played in 3 × 30 minutes instead of 2 × 45 minutes.

4th February 2012	Russia	6: 4 (1: 1, 2: 0, 3: 3)	Finland
4th February 2012	Sweden	5: 4 n.P. (1: 1, 2: 0, 1: 3, 0: 0, 1: 0)	Kazakhstan

3rd place match

5th February 2012

Kazakhstan

10: 5 (4: 2)

Finland

final

5th February 2012

Russia

4: 5 (2: 2)

Sweden

B world championship

The Mongolian team decided not to take part in the B-WM for financial reasons.

Group stage

Pl.		Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1.	Belarus	4th	4th	0	0	43:10	+33	8th
2.	Canada	4th	3	0	1	35:10	+25	6th
3.	Hungary	4th	2	0	2	18:27	−9	4th
4th	Netherlands	4th	1	0	3	10:23	−13	2
5.	Latvia	4th	0	0	4th	9:42	−33	0
6th	Mongolia	0	0	0	0	0-0	0	0

January 30, 2012	Latvia	2: 6 (0: 2)	Netherlands
January 30, 2012	Belarus	13: 5 (7: 1)	Hungary
January 31, 2012	Netherlands	1:11 (1: 5)	Canada
January 31, 2012	Hungary	4: 2 (3: 0)	Latvia
February 1, 2012	Hungary	1:11 (0: 6)	Canada
February 1, 2012	Latvia	3:19 (1:11)	Belarus
February 2, 2012	Hungary	5: 1 (2: 1)	Netherlands
February 2, 2012	Canada	0: 6 (0: 3)	Belarus
3rd February 2012	Belarus	5: 2 (5: 2)	Netherlands
3rd February 2012	Latvia	2:13 (1: 4)	Canada

Placement games

Game for 8th place

4th February 2012

Canada

9: 2 (5: 1)

Hungary

Play for 10th place

4th February 2012

Netherlands

2: 1 (0: 1)

Latvia

C world championship

The team from Lithuania decided not to take part in the C-WM for financial reasons.

Group stage

Pl.		Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Points
1.	Estonia	4th	3	1	0	33: 5	+28	7th
2.	Japan	4th	3	1	1	25: 8	+17	5
3.	Kyrgyzstan	4th	0	0	4th	1:46	−45	0

January 31, 2012	Japan	2: 6 (0: 5)	Estonia
January 31, 2012	Kyrgyzstan	0:13 (0: 7)	Estonia
February 1, 2012	Estonia	12: 1 (6: 0)	Kyrgyzstan
February 1, 2012	Kyrgyzstan	0:13 (0: 7)	Japan
February 2, 2012	Japan	8: 0 (3: 0)	Kyrgyzstan
3rd February 2012	Estonia	2: 2 (1: 2)	Japan

Game for 13th place

4th February 2012

Japan

4: 0 (3: 0)

Kyrgyzstan

statistics

A world championship

Gates

	player	Gates
1	Yevgeny Ivanushkin	12
2	Sergei Pochkunov	11
3	Sergei Lomanov	10
3	Christian Mickelsson	10
5	Vyacheslav Bronnikov	8th
5	Daniel Andersson	8th
5	Pavel Ryazantsev	8th
8th	Mikko Lukkarila	7th
8th	Stefan Erixon	7th
8th	Rauan Isaliev	7th

templates

	player	templates
1	Daniel Andersson	8th
2	Per Hellmyrs	7th
3	Johan Löfstedt	6th
3	Alexander Tjukawin	6th
3	Leonid Bedarew	6th
3	Yuri Wikulin	6th
7th	Sergei Lomanov	5
7th	Dimitri Zavidowski	5
7th	Alexei Dorowski	5
10	Ewgeni Schadrin	4th

Time penalties

	player	min
1	Wasili Granovsky	50
1	Andrei Weselow	50
3	Kjetil G. Johansen	48
4th	Ilari Moisala	45
5	Pekka Hiltunen	40
5	Christensen is different	40
7th	Simen Holmen-Jensen	30th
7th	Daniel Valitalo	30th
7th	Mikhail Dobrynin	30th
7th	Olov Englund	30th

B and C world championships

Gates

	player	Gates
1	Sergei Chernetsky	19th
2	Eveny Opytov	15th
2	Evgeny Chwalko	15th
4th	Alexander Kozlow	9
4th	Mihails Koklins	9
6th	Botond Frajka	7th
7th	Aldis Popens	6th
7th	Brett Gavrailoff	6th
7th	Stephan den Brok	6th
7th	Mikhail Tarasenko	6th

Web links

• Official website of the event (English, Russian)