Kazakh national ice hockey team
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| Association | Kazakh Ice Hockey Federation |
| IIHF member | since 1992 |
| World ranking | 17th place |
| General manager | Alexander Koreshkov |
| Assistant coach | Andrei Schajanow , Vladimir Vorobjew |
| Most games | Alexander Koreshkov (78) |
| Most of the points | Alexander Koreshkov (83) |
| Homepage | www.icehockey.kz |
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First international Kazakhstan 5-1 Ukraine April 11, 1992 , Saint Petersburg  |
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Biggest win Kazakhstan 52-1 Thailand January 29, 2007 , Changchun  |
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Biggest defeat Canada 15-0 Kazakhstan April 27, 1998 , Litvínov |
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| Olympic games | |
| Participation | 1998, 2006 |
| Best result: | 8th place (1998) |
| World Championship | |
| Participation | since 1998 |
| best result | 12th place (2005) |
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The Kazakh men's national ice hockey team is ranked 17th in the IIHF world rankings after the 2017 World Cup . With this classification, Kazakhstan is considered to be the strongest ice hockey nation in Asia, even ahead of Japan or China .
After the first participation in a World Cup in 1998, the Kazakh national team took part in the tournaments in 2004, 2005 and 2006. After the championship in Division I in 2009, the team developed into an elevator team and has since been commuting between the top group and the second class division I.
history
Olympic games
For the first winter games after the collapse of the Soviet Union , to which Kazakhstan had belonged (and the players thus played for the Soviet national ice hockey team), in 1994 in Lillehammer , the team did not yet manage to qualify. In 1998 , however, the time had come and the Kazakh team finished 8th in Nagano after the team under Boris Alexandrow was able to reach the intermediate round. The second participation at the Winter Olympics took place in 2006 , after the end in the preliminary round it was only enough to place 9. The Kazakh striker Yevgeny Koreschkow was also the seventh best scorer in this tournament with 5 goals and 2 assists. The team failed under the head coach Jerlan Sagymbajew in Oslo in the qualification for the Olympic Games 2010 . The Kazakhs were also unsuccessful in qualifying for the 2014 Games in Sochi .
World championships
At world championships, the team has worked its way up since the independence of Kazakhstan in 1993, until the team finally reached the actual ice hockey world championships ( A-WM ) with victory in Division I ( unofficially also B-WM ) in 2003 . After three tournaments, the team rose again at the men's ice hockey world championship in Riga (Latvia) in 2006 , after the relegation round was only finished as the third of four teams. At the men's ice hockey world championship in 2007 , the Kazakh team in Qiqihar (China) only finished third behind France and Poland and thus missed out on promotion. In 2008 the Kazakhs had to surrender to the Austrians . In 2009 they finally got back up after defeating Japan 3-1 and Slovenia 2-1 in decisive games . After finishing last at the 2010 World Cup and relegation to Division I, they were immediately promoted again in 2011 after a 3-2 draw in the last game against hosts Ukraine . Even after relegation in 2012, the Kazakhs were able to celebrate their immediate resurgence. After a 1: 2 against hosts Hungary , the Asians needed a success in the last game against the Italians , who had already been promoted as promoted , which also succeeded 3-0.
Winter Asian Games
The team won four times the ice hockey tournament of the Winter Asian Games in 1996, 1999, 2011 and 2017 and took two silver medals in 2003 and 2007 behind Japan
. So double-digit results of the Kazakh national team against lower-class teams are nothing unusual. E.g. a 38: 0 against the United Arab Emirates and a 52: 1 against Thailand in the 2007 tournament or a 35: 0 against Taiwan in the 2011 tournament.
National coach
- Wladimir Golz 1993–1994
- Vladimir Kopzow 1994–1995
- Boris Alexandrov 1996-2002
- Nikolai Myshagin 2003-2006
- Anatoly Kartayev 2007
- Jerlan Sagymbayev 2007–2009
- Andrei Schajanow 2009-2010
- Andrei Khomutov 2010-2011
- Andrei Schajanow 2011–2012
- Vladimir Krikunov 2012-2013
- Ari-Pekka Selin 2013-2014
- Andrei Nazarov 2014-2015
- Alexander Koreschkow since 2015
Placements
Olympic games
- 1994 - did not qualify
- 1998 - 8th place
- 2002 - not qualified (2nd group 2, 1st qualifying round, overall ranking 18th)
- 2006 - 9th place
- 2010 - not qualified (3rd Group G, 2nd qualifying round, 16th overall)
- 2014 - did not qualify (2nd Group E, 2nd qualifying round, overall ranking 13th)
- 2018 - not qualified (3rd Group F, qualifying round, 16th overall)
- 2022 - not qualified (2nd Group H, 3rd qualifying round, overall ranking 22nd)
World championships
- 1993 - 23rd place (3rd place C-WM)
- 1994 - 24th place (4th place C-WM)
- 1995 - 22nd place (2nd place C-WM)
- 1996 - 21st place (1st place C-WM)
- 1997 - 14th place (2nd place B-WM)
- 1998 - 15th place
- 1999 - 19th place (3rd place B-WM)
- 2000 - 18th place (2nd place B-WM)
- 2001 - 21st place (3rd place Division I, Group B)
- 2002 - 21st place (3rd place Division I, Group A)
- 2003 - 17th place (1st place Division I, Group A)
- 2004 - 13th place
- 2005 - 12th place
- 2006 - 15th place
- 2007 - 21st place (3rd place Division I, Group B)
- 2008 - 20th place (2nd place Division I, Group A)
- 2009 - 17th place (1st place Division I, Group A)
- 2010 - 16th place
- 2011 - 17th place (1st place Division I, Group B)
- 2012 - 16th place
- 2013 - 17th place (1st place Division IA)
- 2014 - 16th place
- 2015 - 17th place (1st place Division IA)
- 2016 - 16th place
- 2017 - 19th place (3rd place Division IA)
- 2018 - 19th place (3rd place Division IA)
- 2019 - 17th place (1st place Division IA)
