British national ice hockey team
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| Association | Ice Hockey UK |
| World ranking | 24th place |
| Trainer | Peter Russell |
| Assistant coach | Thomas Watkins , Chuck Weber |
| Most games | Ashley Tait (110) |
| Most of the points | Tony hand (107) |
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First international match Great Britain 3-0 Switzerland Chamonix , France ; January 23 , 1909 |
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Biggest win Great Britain 26-0 New Zealand Geel , Belgium ; March 16 , 1989 |
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Biggest defeat Yugoslavia 21: 1 Great Britain Barcelona , Spain ; March 25 , 1979 |
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| Olympic games | |
| Participation | four, since 1924 |
| Best result: | Olympic Champion ( 1936 ) |
| World Championship | |
| Participation | since 1930 |
| best result | World Champion ( 1936 ) |
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The UK national ice hockey team represents the UK Ice Hockey Federation Ice Hockey UK at international level. After the 2017 World Cup, the men's team is ranked 24th in the IIHF world rankings . The country has so far been one Olympic and one world champion and four European champions.
history
Great Britain was one of the strongest ice hockey nations in the world in the first five decades of the 20th century. The national team was able to achieve some successes, especially at the European level. In its first edition in 1910 , the country was able to win the European ice hockey championship straight away ahead of the competition from Germany , Belgium and Switzerland , but did not take part in the following independent European championship tournaments. Between 1924 and 1948, the national team of Great Britain took part in a total of four Olympic ice hockey tournaments. Only the participation in the Olympic Winter Games 1932 was waived like many other European countries for cost reasons.
The British national ice hockey team achieved their greatest success and one of the greatest successes in ice hockey history when they won the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Since this was rated at the same time as a world championship and a European championship and the British topped the rankings even after the games against non-European teams had been subtracted, they became Olympic champions as well as world and European champions in one. Only the Soviet Union was able to repeat this success afterwards . Before that, the national team already had an Olympic bronze medal in 1924 and also the bronze medal of the world championship and came third at the European ice hockey championship in 1928. By 1950 Great Britain won numerous other medals at international level, including the European championship titles in 1937 and 1938 as the best European team at the World Cup.
Overall, Great Britain won one gold and one bronze medal at the Olympic Games, one gold medal and two silver and two bronze medals at the World Championships, and four gold and two silver medals and one bronze medal at the European Championships.
Great Britain has not been able to match the successes of the first half of the 20th century in ice hockey since the 1950s. It took from 1962 to 1994 (32 years) until the national team appeared again in the top division of the Ice Hockey World Championship, but the direct relegation followed. The national team then played for a long time in Division I (A or B), before being promoted back to the top division in 2018 (after another 25 years) with first place in Division IA .
The British national team has regularly participated in the Euro Ice Hockey Challenge since the 2000s .
Squad
Current squad
The squad for the 2019 Men's Ice Hockey World Championship, which will be held from May 10 to 26, 2019 in Bratislava and Košice , Slovakia :
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Peter Russell | June 20, 1974 |
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Adam Keefe | Apr 26, 1984 |
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Corey Neilson | 22 Aug 1976 |
Placements
At the Olympics
- 1920 - did not participate
- 1924 - bronze medal
- 1928 - 4th place
- 1932 - did not take part
- 1936 - gold medal
- since 1948 - not participated or not qualified
At the European Championships
- 1910 - gold medal
- 1911 to 1925 - did not participate
- 1926 - 4th place
- 1927 - did not participate
- 1929 - did not participate
- 1932 - 7th place
At the world championships
- 1920 - did not participate
- 1924 - bronze medal
- 1928 - 4th place
- 1930 - 10th place
- 1931 - 8th place
- 1932 / 1933 - not participated
- 1934 - 8th place
- 1935 - bronze medal
- 1936 - gold medal
- 1937 - silver medal
- 1938 - silver medal
- 1939 - 8th place
- 1947–49 - did not take part
- 1950 - 4th place
- 1951 - 5th place
- 1952 - 10th place (1st B-WM)
- 1953 - 5th place (2nd B-WM)
- 1954–59 - did not take part
- 1961 - 10th place (2nd B-WM)
- 1962 - 8th place
- 1963 - 15th place (7th B-WM)
- 1964 - did not take part
- 1965 - 14th place (6th B-WM)
- 1966 - 16th place (8th B-WM)
- 1967–70 - did not participate
- 1971 - 18th place (4th C-WM)
- 1972 - did not participate
- 1973 - 22nd place (8th C-WM)
- 1974/75 - did not take part
- 1976 - 21st place (5th C-WM)
- 1977 - 24th place (7th C-WM)
- 1978 - did not participate
- 1979 - 24th place (6th C-WM)
- 1981 - 24th place (8th C-WM)
- 1982–87 - did not participate
- 1989 - 27th place (3rd D-WM)
- 1990 - 26th place (1st D-WM)
- 1991 - 21st place (5th C-WM)
- 1992 - 21st place (1st C-WM)
- 1993 - 13th place (1st B-WM)
- 1994 - 12th place
- 1995 - 19th place (7th B-WM)
- 1996 - 16th place (4th B-WM)
- 1997 - 18th place (6th B-WM)
- 1998 - 22nd place (6th B-WM)
- 1999 - 18th place (2nd B-WM)
- 2000 - 19th place (3rd B-WM)
- 2001 - 18th place (2nd B-WM)
- 2002 - 23rd place (4th B-WM)
- 2003 - 24th place (5th B-WM)
- 2004 - 25th place (5th B-WM)
- 2005 - 23rd place (4th B-WM)
- 2006 - 26th place (5th B-WM)
- 2007 - 24th place (4th Division I, Group B)
- 2008 - 23rd place (4th Division I, Group A)
- 2009 - 22nd place (3rd Division I, Group B)
- 2010 - 23rd place (4th Division I, Group B)
- 2011 - 19th place (2nd Division I, Group B)
- 2012 - 21st place (5th Division I, Group A)
- 2013 - 22nd place (6th Division I, Group A)
- 2014 - 26th place (4th Division I, Group B)
- 2015 - 24th place (2nd Division I, Group B)
- 2016 - 24th place (2nd Division I, Group B)
- 2017 - 23rd place (1st Division I, Group B)
- 2018 - 17th place (1st Division I, Group A)
- 2019 - 13th place
italic : The tournament was held as part of the Olympic Games.
British Olympic Champion 1936
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Gold / Olympic Champion Great Britain |
Alexander Archer , James Borland , Edgar Brenchley , James Chappell , John Coward , Gordon Dailley , Gerry Davey , Carl Erhardt , Jimmy Foster , Jack Kilpatrick , Archibald Stinchcombe , Robert Wyman |
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