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Mens World Hockey Championships

The Mens World Hockey Championship tournament has been played regularly since 1930. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), which governs both the World and Winter Olympic tournaments, considers the Olympic champions from 1920-68 to also be the World champions. However the IIHF has not recognized an Olympic champion as World champion since 1968. The IIHF has sanctioned separate World Championships in Olympic years three times–in 1972, 1976 and again in 1992. The world championship is officially vacant for the three Olympic years 1980, 84, 88. As this tournament takes place during the same period as the later stages of the NHL's Stanley Cup playoffs, many of that league's top players are not available to participate for their national teams or have only become available after their NHL teams have been eliminated. The current format is 16 teams in the championship group, that play a preliminary round, then the top eight teams play in the playoff medal round.

Mens World Hockey Championship Past Winners

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Location
2025	United States	Switzerland	Sweden	Zurich and Fribourg, Switzerland
2024	Czechia	Switzerland	Sweden	Stocfkholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark
2023	Canada	Germany	Latvia	Tampere and Riga, Finland
2022	Finland	Canada	Czech Republic	Tampere and Helsinki, Finland
2021	Canada	Finland	United States	Riga, Lativa
2020	Cancelled Covid 19
2019	Finland	Canada	Russia	Bratislava and Ko?ice, Slovakia
2018	Sweden	Switzerland	United States	Copenhagen and Herning, Denmark
2017	Sweden	Canada	Russia	Paris, France and Cologne, Germany
2016	Canada	Finland	Russia	Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia
2015	Canada	Russia	United States	Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic
2014	Russia	Finland	Sweden	Minsk, Belarus
2013	Sweden	Switzerland	United States	Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland
2012	Russia	Slovakia	Czech Republic	Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland
2011	Finland	Sweden	Czech Republic	Bratislava and Ko?ice, Slovakia
2010	Czech Republic	Russia	Sweden	Cologne, Mannheim and Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2009	Russia	Canada	Sweden	Kloten and Bern, Switzerland
2008	Russia	Canada	Finland	Halifax and Quebec City, Canada
2008	Russia	Canada	Finland	Halifax/Qu?bec City, Canada
2007	Canada	Finland	Russia	Moscow / Mytishchi, Russia
2006	Sweden	Czech Republic	Finland	Riga, Latvia
2005	Czech Republic	Canada	Russia	Vienna, Austria
2004	Canada	Sweden	United States	Czech Republic
2003	Canada	Sweden	Slovakia	Helsinki, Tampere, Turko, Finland
2002	Slovakia	Russia	Sweden	Jonkoping, Goteborg, Karlstad, Sweden
2001	Czech Republic	Finland	Sweden	Hannover, Germany
2000	Czech Republic	Slovakia	Finland	St.Petersburg, Russia
1999	Czech Republic	Finland	Sweden	Oslo, Hamar, Lillehammer, Norway
1998	Sweden	Finland	Czech Republic	Zurich/Basle, Germany
1997	Canada	Sweden	Czech Republic	Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Finland
1996	Czech Republic	Canada	USA	Vienna, Austria
1995	Finland	Sweden	Canada	Gavle, Stockholm, Sweden
1994	Canada	Finland	Sweden	Bolzano, Canazie, Milano, Italy
1993	Russia	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Dortmund, Munich, Germany
1992	Sweden	Finland	Czechoslovakia	Prague, Czechoslovakia
1991	Sweden	Canada	Soviet Union	Turku, Finland
1990	Soviet Union	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Berne, Switzerland
1989	Soviet Union	Canada	Czechoslovakia	Stockholm, Sweden
1987	Sweden	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Vienna, Austria
1986	Soviet Union	Sweden	Canada	Moscow, Soviet Union
1985	Czechoslovakia	Canada	Soviet Union	Prague, Czechoslovakia
1983	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Canada	Dusseldorf, Munich, Dortmund, Germany
1982	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Canada	Helsinki, Finland
1981	Soviet Union	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Gothenburg, Stockholm, Sweden
1979	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Moscow, Soviet Union
1978	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Canada	Prague, Czechoslovakia
1977	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Soviet Union	Vienna, Austria
1976	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Sweden	Katowice, Poland
1975	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Munich, Dusseldorf, Germany
1974	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Helsinki, Finland
1973	Soviet Union	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Moscow, USSR
1972	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Sweden	Prague, Czechoslovakia
1971	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Berne, Switzerland
1970	Soviet Union	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Stockholm, Sweden
1969	Soviet Union	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Stockholm, Sweden
1968	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Canada	Grenoble, France (Olympics)
1967	Soviet Union	Sweden	Canada	Vienna, Austria
1966	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Canada	Lubljana, Yugoslavia
1965	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Tampere, Finland
1964	Soviet Union	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Innsbruck, Austria (Olympics)
1963	Soviet Union	Sweden	Czechoslovakia	Stockholm, Sweden
1962	Sweden	Canada	USA	Colorado Springs, USA
1961	Canada	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland
1960	USA	Canada	Soviet Union	Squaw Valley, USA (Olympics)
1959	Canada	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Prague, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
1958	Canada	Soviet Union	Sweden	Oslo, Norway
1957	Sweden	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Moscow, USSR
1956	Soviet Union	USA	Canada	Cortina, Italy (Olympics)
1955	Canada	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Krefeld, Dortmund, Cologne, Germany
1954	Soviet Union	Canada	Sweden	Stockholm, Sweden
1953	Sweden	Germany	Switzerland	Zurich, Basle, Switzerland
1952	Canada	USA	Sweden	Oslo, Norway (Olympics)
1951	Canada	Sweden	Switzerland	Paris, France
1950	Canada	USA	Switzerland	London, England
1949	Czechoslovakia	Canada	USA	Stockholm, Sweden
1948	Canada	Czechoslovakia	Switzerland	St. Moritz, Switzerland (Olympics)
1947	Czechoslovakia	Sweden	Austria	Prague, Czechoslovakia
1939	Canada	USA	Switzerland	Zurich, Basle, Switzerland
1938	Canada	Britain	Czechoslovakia	Prague, Czechoslovakia
1937	Canada	Britain	Switzerland	London, England
1936	Britain	Canada	USA	Garmisch-Part, Germany (Olympics)
1935	Canada	Switzerland	Britain	Davos, Switzerland
1934	Canada	USA	Germany	Milan, Italy
1933	USA	Canada	Czechoslovakia	Prague, Czechoslovakia
1932	Canada	USA	Germany	Lake Placid, USA (Olympics)
1931	Canada	USA	Austria	Krynica, Poland
1930	Canada	Germany	Switzerland	Chamonix, France - Berlin, Germany. - Vienna, Austria
1928	Canada	Sweden	Switzerland	St. Moritz, Switzerland (Olympics)
1924	Canada	USA	Britain	Chamonix, France(Olympics)
1920	Canada	USA	Czechoslovakia	Antwerp, Belgium (Olympics)

Womens World Hockey Championships

The IIHF World Women's Championship, officially the IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship, is the premier international tournament in women's ice hockey. It is governed by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The official world competition was first held in 1990. From the first Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Tournament in 1998 onward, the Olympic tournament was played instead of the IIHF World Championship. In September 2021, it was announced that the Womens World Championship would also be held during Olympic years. The current format is 10 teams, divided into two groups of five that play a qualifying round robin. The five teams in Group A and the top three teams from Group B move into the single game elimination quarterfinals, semifinals and final game. As of 2021, the four teams that lose their quarterfinal games enter into a knockout tournament to determine 5th place with the winner earning a spot in Group A for the next tournament.

Womens World Hockey Championship Past Winners

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Location
1990	Canada	USA	Finland	Ottawa, Canada
1992	Canada	USA	Finland	Tampere, Finland
1994	Canada	USA	Finland	Lake Placid, USA
1997	Canada	USA	Finland	Kitchener, Canada
1999	Canada	USA	Finland	Espoo, Finland
2000	Canada	USA	Finland	Mississauga, Canada
2001	Canada	USA	Russia	Minneapolis/St. Paul, USA
2004	Canada	USA	Finland	Halifax, Canada
2005	USA	Canada	Sweden	Linkoping, Sweden
2007	Canada	United States	Sweden	Winnipeg / Selkirk, Canada
2008	USA	Canada	Finland	Harbin, China
2009	United States	Canada	Finland	Hameenlinna, finland
2011	Canada	United States	Finland	Z?rich and Winterthur, Switzerland
2012	Canada	United States	Switzerland	Burlington, United States
2013	United States	Canada	Russia	Ottawa, Canada
2015	United States	Canada	Finland	Malmo, Sweden
2016	United States	Canada	Russia	Kamloops, Canada
2017	United States	Canada	Finland	Plymouth, United States
2019	United States	Finland	Canada	Espoo, Finland
2021	Canada	United States	Finland	Calgary, Canada
2022	Canada	United States	Czechia	Herning and Frederikshavn, Denmark
2023	United States	Canada	Czechia	Brampton, Canada
2024	Canada	United States	Finland	Utica, New York, US
2025	United States	Canada	Finland	Ceske Budejovice, Czechia