Norwegian men's bandynational team
The Norwegian national bandy team presents Norway at international games in a bandy . Norway has so far won a silver and a gold medal at world championships. Since 2001, the team has always finished fifth at world championships.
The coach of the national team is Thomas Moen . With 132 appearances, he is also the selection record player.
history
The first international game played Norway on February 6, 1927 in the Oslo district of Frogner against the selection of Sweden . Norway lost the game 3-1. The first game against Finland on February 13, 1940 in Oslo Norway lost 2-1.
Norway celebrated its first victory in 1952 during the Winter Olympics , where bandy was part of the program as a demonstration sport . Norway beat Sweden 2-1. The Norwegians lost the game against Finland the day before with 2: 3.
At an international tournament in Moscow in February 1954, Norway played against the Soviet Union for the first time and lost 8-0.
Norway, like the Soviet Union, Sweden and Finland, was one of the registered teams for the first World Cup in Helsinki in 1957 . Due to political reasons (suppression of the uprisings in Hungary by the Soviet Union in 1956) Norway stayed away from the tournament. The first participation took place four years later in 1961 at the second world championships, which were held in their own country. Norway lost their first World Cup game against Sweden 2-1. After two more defeats against the Soviet Union (1: 9) and Finland (3: 4), the team finished fourth and last. At the following World Cup in Sweden in 1963 , a 2-2 win against Finland won the first point at a World Cup. However, Norway did not come in fourth place in 1963 either. In 1965 Norway achieved the greatest success at the World Bandy Championships by winning the silver medal. The team separated 2-2 from Sweden, then lost to the Soviet Union 0-4, but won the final game against Finland 1-0. Until 1993 this should be the only medal for the Norwegians.
After a fourth place in 1967 and a second boycott in 1969, this time due to the suppression of the Prague Spring by the Soviet Army, the Norwegians always took fourth place until 1993. In 1993 the Norwegians won the bronze medal at the home world championships in Hamar . In the group stage, the team initially lost all three games. After a qualifying game against the United States that the Norwegians won 7-0 and a 3-6 semi-final defeat against Sweden, they returned the favor in the small final with a 5-3 defeat against Finland for the 4-1 defeat in the group stage.
From 1995 Kazakhstan took part in the World Bandy Championships. The Kazakhs already defeated the Norwegians 4-2 on their World Cup debut and displaced Norway to fifth place in the final standings. In 1997 in Sweden, the two teams separated 7: 7 in the preliminary round. In the quarter-finals, the Kazakhs won their second encounter 5-2. In 1999 the Norwegians finally managed to finish fourth after a 6-2 win in the group stage against Kazakhstan for the last time so far. Norway has always been fifth since 2001.
Placements
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Known players
- Robert Arnesen (* 1974), from 1998 to 2007.
Web links
- Official website of the Norges Bandyforbund
- A-landskamper menn (1927–1999) List of international matches until 1999; Norges Bandyforbund