Ice Hockey World Championship 1956

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	Winner: Soviet Union

The Olympic ice hockey tournament of the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy, is the 23rd ice hockey world championship and 34th ice hockey European championship . The teams GDR , Norway and Belgium that were not approved or qualified for the Olympic ice hockey tournament carried out a "substitute World Cup" in East Berlin from March 8 to 10, 1956 , which some statistics also refer to as the B World Championship.

The USSR became world champions for the second time and European champions for the third time . She won the tournament before the USA . For Canada , the third place was the worst so far in a World Cup participation.

Olympic ice hockey tournament and A world championship

See: Olympic ice hockey tournament of the 1956 Winter Games

Final placement of the world championship

Pl	team
1	Soviet Union
2	United States
3	Canada
4th	Sweden
5	Czechoslovakia
6th	BR Germany
7th	Italy
8th	Poland
9	Switzerland
10	Austria

Champions team

World Champion USSR

Yevgeny Babich , Vsevolod Bobrov , Nikolai Chlystow , Alexei Guryschew , Yuri Krylov , Alfred Kutschewski , Valentin Kuzin , Grigori Mkrtytschan , Viktor Nikiforov , Yuri Pantjuchow , Nikolai Puchkov , Viktor Shuvalov , Genrich Sidorenkow , Nikolai Sologubow , Ivan Tregubow , Dimitri Ukolow , Alexander Uvarov

Final placement of the European Championship

Pl	team
1	Soviet Union
2	Sweden
3	Czechoslovakia
4th	BR Germany
5	Italy
6th	Poland
7th	Switzerland
8th	Austria

Replacement World Championship

The unofficial B-World Championship was held in East Berlin , GDR . Initially, the GDR's ice hockey section had returned the order to host the B-tournament of the ice hockey world championship to the international ice hockey federation after the majority of the invited nations withdrew their registration for this tournament for various reasons. So there was no official B-World Championship. Instead of the Junior Cup, a three-country tournament was planned in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin from March 8th to 11th, in which the selections of Belgium, Norway and the GDR took part.

Games

March 8, 1956

GDR Hans Frenzel Werner Heinicke (12th) Kurt Stürmer (17th) Manfred Buder (21st)

4: 1 (3: 1, 1: 0, 0: 0) game report

Norway Moe (11.)

Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle , Berlin Spectators: 6,000

March 9, 1956 8:00 p.m.

Belgium Moris (I.) Moris (2) (II.) Zukivsky (II.) Zukivsky (III.) Moris (III.) Notermann (III.)

7:14 (1: 7, 3: 3, 3: 4) game report

GDR Helmut Novy (2) (I.) Hans Frenzel (I.) Woytaschek (I.) Jablonski (I.) 6: 1 Helmut Novy (I.) 7: 1 Hartmut Nickel (I.) Manfred Buder (II.) Hans Frenzel (II.) Wolfgang Blümel (II.) Manfred Buder (2) (III.) Hartmut Nickel (III.) Wolfgang Blümel (III.)

Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle, Berlin Spectators: 6,000

March 10, 1956

Norway

7: 5 (1: 3, 4: 1, 2: 1)

Belgium

Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle, Berlin

Note: The German Alfred Kuhnke (SC Einheit Berlin) was in the goal of the Belgian team against Norway, because the originally intended goalkeeper was ill. This was also his first international match. In addition, Belgium was reinforced by several Canadian players.

Second leg outside of the table below:

March 11, 1956 6:30 p.m.

GDR

5: 2 (1: 2, 3: 0, 1: 0) game report

Norway

Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle, Berlin

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	GDR	2	2	0	0	18: 08	+10	4-0
2	Norway	2	1	0	1	08: 09	0-1	2: 2
3	Belgium	2	0	0	2	12:21	0-9	0: 4

(unofficial) B-world champion 1956: GDR

At a small closing ceremony of the three-country tournament, goalkeeper Katzur (GDR), defender Zukivsky (Belgo-Canadian) and striker Andersen (Norway's big bandy star) were honored with trophies by the ice hockey section of the GDR.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Awo .: There was no incentive. In: Berliner Zeitung . Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin , March 3, 1956, p. 4 , accessed on April 14, 2013 . 
2. ↑ A little ice hockey multiplication table. In: New Germany . Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin , March 13, 1956, p. 6 , accessed on April 14, 2013 .