Belarusian national ice hockey team
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| Association | Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation |
| World ranking | 9th place |
| Trainer | Mikhail Sacharau |
| Assistant coach | Aleh Antonenka , Aljaksandr Schuryk , Craig Woodcroft |
| Most games | Alyaksandr Makryzki (175) |
| Most of the points | Andrej Skabelka (114) |
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First international match Ukraine 4: 1 Belarus Minsk , Belarus ; November 7, 1992 |
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Biggest win Belarus 21: Lithuania Riga , Latvia ; August 30, 1996 |
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Biggest defeat Canada 9: 0 Belarus Prague , Czech Republic ; May 14, 2015 |
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| Participation | 1998, 2002, 2010 |
| Best result: | 4th place ( 2002 ) |
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| Participation | since 1994 |
| best result | 6th place ( 2006 ) |
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The Belarusian men's national ice hockey team is ranked 10th in the IIHF world rankings after the 2017 World Cup . The team belongs to the Belarusian ice hockey association , in which around 8,500 ice hockey players are organized. The team has been coached by Dave Lewis since summer 2014 . The greatest success so far was the 4th place at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
National coach
- 1992: Vladimir Safonov
- 1993-1996: Andrei Sidorenko
- 1996-2001: Anatol Warywontschyk
- 2002–2003: Vladimir Krikunow
- 2003–2005: Michail Sacharau
- 2005-2006: Glen Hanlon
- 2006-2008: Curt Fraser
- 2008 - November 2009: Glen Hanlon
- November 2009–2010: Michail Sacharau
- 2010–2011: Eduard Sankowez
- 2011–2012: Kari Heikkilä
- 2012–2013: Andrej Skabelka
- 2013-2014: Glen Hanlon
- 2014: Vladimir Krikunov
- 2014-2018: Dave Lewis
- 2018: Sergei Pushkov
- 2018-2019: Andrei Sidorenko
- since 2019 Michail Sacharau
Placements
winter Olympics
- 1994 - did not qualify
- 1998 - 7th place
- 2002 - 4th place
- 2006 - did not qualify
- 2010 - 9th place
- 2014 - did not qualify
- 2018 - did not qualify
World championships
In preparation for the annual world championships, the national team regularly takes part in tournaments of the Euro Ice Hockey Challenge . In 2014 , the Belarusian Association hosted the World Cup for the first time in Minsk and achieved seventh place, the best result since 2006 and the second-best result in its history. At the 2018 World Cup , the Belarusian team, bottom of the group, had to relegate to Division I after 14 years of uninterrupted membership in the top division.
- 1994 - 22nd place (2nd place C-WM)
- 1995 - 21st place (1st place C-WM)
- 1996 - 15th place (3rd place B-WM)
- 1997 - 13th place (1st place B-WM)
- 1998 - 8th place
- 1999 - 9th place
- 2000 - 9th place
- 2001 - 14th place
- 2002 - 17th place (1st place Division I)
- 2003 - 14th place
- 2004 - 18th place (1st place Division I)
- 2005 - 10th place
- 2006 - 6th place
- 2007 - 11th place
- 2008 - 9th place
- 2009 - 8th place
- 2010 - 10th place
- 2011 - 14th place
- 2012 - 14th place
- 2013 - 14th place
- 2014 - 7th place
- 2015 - 7th place
- 2016 - 12th place
- 2017 - 13th place
- 2018 - 15th place
- 2019 - 18th place (2nd place Division IA)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistical data ; Website of the Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation.
- ↑ hockeyfans.ch, new coach for Belarus
- ↑ Glen Hanlon: Returning Home. In: insidebelarus.com. July 2013, accessed March 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Dave Lewis goes east again. In: iihf.com. December 12, 2014, accessed March 10, 2016 .
- ^ IIHF - Belarus changes coach. In: iihf.com. May 8, 2018, accessed September 17, 2019 .