2008 Women's Bandy World Championship

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World Cup 2008 Sweden
gold SwedenSweden Sweden
silver RussiaRussia Russia
bronze FinlandFinland Finland
4th NorwayNorway Norway
5. CanadaCanada Canada
6th United StatesUnited States United States

The 4th Women's Bandy World Championship took place from February 13th to February 16th, 2008 in the Swedish towns of Borlänge , Grängesberg and Karlsbyheden .

After a flawless performance without a draw or defeat in front of their home crowd, Sweden defended the World Cup title of 2004, 2006 and 2007 for the third time with a 5-2 final victory over Russia and thus secured their fourth title in a row. Bronze went to the Finnish team after a 5-3 win against Norway. For the first time, no semifinals were held.

The team from Hungary, participating for the second time, again failed to score in the group stage and again lost all games. As in 2007, the team only reached the unofficial seventh and last place.

Group stage

Pl. Sp S. U N Gates Diff Points
1. SwedenSweden Sweden 6th 6th 0 0 51: 1 +50 12
2. RussiaRussia Russia 6th 5 0 1 31: 8 +23 10
3. FinlandFinland Finland 6th 4th 0 2 28:18 +10 8th
4th NorwayNorway Norway 6th 2 1 3 10:15 −5 5
5. CanadaCanada Canada 6th 1 2 3 10:18 −8 4th
6th United StatesUnited States United States 6th 1 1 4th 5:28 −23 3
7th HungaryHungary Hungary 6th 0 0 6th 0:47 −47 0
February 13, 2008 FinlandFinland Finland 14: 0 (9: 0) HungaryHungary Hungary
February 13, 2008 NorwayNorway Norway 1: 0 (0: 0) United StatesUnited States United States
February 13, 2008 SwedenSweden Sweden 10: 1 (3: 0) CanadaCanada Canada
February 13, 2008 RussiaRussia Russia 9: 1 (4: 0) FinlandFinland Finland
February 13, 2008 NorwayNorway Norway 7: 0 (3: 0) HungaryHungary Hungary
February 13, 2008 SwedenSweden Sweden 13: 0 (7: 0) United StatesUnited States United States
February 13, 2008 CanadaCanada Canada 1: 3 (0: 2) RussiaRussia Russia
February 14, 2008 United StatesUnited States United States 1: 5 (1: 1) FinlandFinland Finland
February 14, 2008 HungaryHungary Hungary 0: 7 (0: 3) SwedenSweden Sweden
February 14, 2008 CanadaCanada Canada 1: 1 (1: 0) NorwayNorway Norway
February 14, 2008 United StatesUnited States United States 0: 9 (0: 5) RussiaRussia Russia
February 14, 2008 SwedenSweden Sweden 7: 0 (4: 0) FinlandFinland Finland
February 14, 2008 HungaryHungary Hungary 0: 7 (0: 1) CanadaCanada Canada
February 14, 2008 RussiaRussia Russia 2: 0 (1: 0) NorwayNorway Norway
February 15, 2008 HungaryHungary Hungary 0: 4 (0: 1) United StatesUnited States United States
February 15, 2008 SwedenSweden Sweden 6: 0 (3: 0) RussiaRussia Russia
February 15, 2008 NorwayNorway Norway 1: 4 (0: 3) FinlandFinland Finland
February 15, 2008 United StatesUnited States United States 0: 0 (0: 0) CanadaCanada Canada
February 15, 2008 RussiaRussia Russia 8: 0 (4: 0) HungaryHungary Hungary
February 15, 2008 NorwayNorway Norway 0: 8 (0: 5) SwedenSweden Sweden
February 15, 2008 FinlandFinland Finland 4: 0 (2: 0) CanadaCanada Canada

Finals

Play for 5th place

February 17, 2007 CanadaCanada Canada 2: 0 (1: 0) United StatesUnited States United States

3rd place match

February 17, 2007 FinlandFinland Finland 5: 3 (3: 2) NorwayNorway Norway

final

February 17, 2007 SwedenSweden Sweden 5: 2 (2: 1) RussiaRussia Russia

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