Olympic Winter Games 2018 / Ice Hockey

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Ice hockey at the
2018 Olympic Winter Games
Olympic rings
ice Hockey
information
venue Korea SouthSouth Korea Gangneung
Competition venue Gangneung Hockey Center , Kwandong Hockey Center
Teams 20 (12 Mars symbol (male), 8 Venus symbol (female))
Nations 14th
Athletes 496 (300 Mars symbol (male), 196 Venus symbol (female))
date February 10-25, 2018
decisions 2
← Sochi 2014

At the XXIII. During the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , two ice hockey competitions were held. When men's tournament twelve teams competed, the women's tournament was held with eight teams.

The participants in the preliminary round groups were based on the status of the IIHF world rankings in 2015 for men and 2016 for women and the results of the qualifying tournaments. The men's tournament began on February 14th, the women's tournament on February 10th, 2018, one day after the opening ceremony on February 9th. The women's final took place on February 22nd, the men's on February 25th, the final day of the Games.

Venues

The venues for the two tournaments were the Gangneung Hockey Center ( Korean 강릉 아이스 하키 I 경기장 ) with 10,000 seats and the Kwandong Hockey Center ( Korean 가톨릭 관동대 학교 아이스 하키 II 경기장 ), which has a capacity of 6,000. Both arenas are located outside of Pyeongchang in the coastal town of Gangneung .

While the main venue for the men was the Gangneung Hockey Center, where 23 of the 30 tournament games took place, the women played exclusively in the Kwandong Hockey Center with the exception of the semi-finals and the final.

Gangneung , South Korea
Gangneung Hockey Center
Capacity: 10,000
Venue of the tournament
Kwandong Hockey Center
Capacity: 6,000
Gangneung Hockey Center Kwandong Hockey Center

Mode and participants

As in Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 , the 2018 Winter Olympics were held in three groups for men and in two groups of four teams for women. The qualification for the Olympic tournament was based on the IIHF world rankings .

For the men, the first eight places ( Sweden , Finland , Russia , Czech Republic , Canada , United States , Switzerland , and Slovakia ) were automatically qualified, as was the host South Korea . The next ranked teams played three qualifying tournaments in which Norway , Germany and Slovenia qualified.

For the women, the teams from the United States , Canada , Finland , Russia and Sweden qualified directly, as did host South Korea . Then there were Switzerland and Japan , who qualified through the qualifying tournaments. A few weeks before the start of the games, North and South Korea announced that an all-Korean women's team would take part in the tournament.

Men's tournament

Women's tournament

Medal table

Medal table ice hockey
(after 2 of 2 decisions)
space country gold gold silver silver bronze bronze total
1 OlympiaOlympic Athletes from Russia Olympic athletes from Russia 1 - - 1
United StatesUnited States United States 1 - - 1
3 CanadaCanada Canada - 1 1 2
4th GermanyGermany Germany - 1 - 1
5 FinlandFinland Finland - - 1 1

Web links

Commons : Ice Hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adam Steiss: Olympic qualification format set. 2015 Worlds to determine men's seeding. International Ice Hockey Federation , March 10, 2015, accessed January 8, 2018 .