1998 Winter Olympics / Ice Hockey

Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Nagano
Competition venue	Big Hat (10,104 seats) Aqua Wing (6,078 seats)
Teams	20 (14 , 6 )
Nations	15th
Athletes	442 (322 , 120 )
date	7-22 February 1998
decisions	2 ( men / women )
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At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano ( Japan ), the ice hockey competitions consisted of a women's tournament for the first time in addition to the men's ice hockey tournament .

For the men's tournament, negotiations between the IOC and the International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ) with the North American professional league NHL ensured that the NHL took a break for the first time during the winter games. In return, the big six ice hockey nations were set for the final round and only had to intervene in the action a week later.

Venues

The games of the Olympic ice hockey tournaments were played in two ice stadiums in Nagano, which were newly built on the occasion of the games . These were the ice hockey arena A ( Japanese. ア イ ス ホ ッ ケ ー A 会場 ) in the district of Wakasato, with a capacity of 10,104 seats, which was called Big Hat (Japanese. ッ グ ハ ッ ト ) due to its shape , and the ice hockey arena B (Japanese . ア イ ス ホ ッ ケ ー B 会場 ). The arena, which could hold 6,078 spectators, was nicknamed Aqua Wing (Japanese ア ク ア ウ ィ . グ ).

Nagano , Japan
	Nagano Venue of the tournaments
Big Hat (Ice Hockey Hall A) Capacity: 10,104		Aqua Wing (ice hockey hall B) Capacity: 6,078

Men's tournament

→ Main article : Men's Olympic ice hockey tournament

Women's tournament

→ Main article : Women's Olympic ice hockey tournament

Medal table

Medal table ice hockey (after 2 of 2 decisions)
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Czech Republic	1	-	-	1
	United States	1	-	-	1
3	Canada	-	1	-	1
	Russia	-	1	-	1
5	Finland	-	-	2	2

Web links

Commons : Ice Hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ice hockey at the Olympic Games 1998 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )