# Women's Bandy World Championship

The Women's Bandy World Championships is an international sports tournament for women and the premier international competition for women's bandy among bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy.
It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup Women which is a women's club competition, the Bandy World Cup which is a club competition for men, and from the Bandy World Championship which is the premier international bandy competition for men's teams.
A Youth Bandy World Championship also exists separately from the women's senior competition and has competitions in both the male and female categories, with the F17 WC tournament representing the youth World Championship in bandy for girls up to 17 years of age.
Although the sport of bandy has been played by both men and women since the 19th century, the first men's world championship didn't take place until 1957, and the first official women's international bandy tournament only began in 2004. However, an international match between women's bandy teams from Sweden and Finland took place in Helsinki, Finland in 1935 at the Helsinki Ice Stadium, where a portion of the match was captured by British Pathé. The archival short film has been uploaded and published on the video sharing site, YouTube.
In 2023, the tournament will for the first time take place at the same time in the same arena as the equivalent among men.

## Participating nations

Until 2020, Sweden, Russia, Finland, Norway and USA have participated in every tournament, Canada in most of them, Hungary in two and China debuted in 2016. The record number of participants were 8, in 2018 and 2020. Estonia and Switzerland debuted in 2018, and Japan in 2020. Ukraine is scheduled to make its debut in 2023.

### Participation details

| Team | 2004 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | Total |
| Canada | | 6th | 4th | 5th | 4th | 4th | 5th | 4th | | | | | 7 |
| China | | | | | | | | 7th | 6th | | | | 2 |
| Estonia | | | | | | | | | 7th | 7th | 7th | | 3 |
| Finland | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 3rd | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 6th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 12 |
| Great Britain | | | | | | | | | | | 6th | | 1 |
| Hungary | | | 7th | 7th | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Japan | | | | | | | | | | 6th | | | 1 |
| Netherlands | | | | | | | | | | | 5th | 4th | 2 |
| Norway | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 6th | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | | 11 |
| Russia | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | | | 10 |
| Sweden | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 12 |
| Switzerland | | | | | | | | | 8th | 8th | 8th | 5th | 4 |
| Ukraine | | | | | | | | | | | | 6th | 1 |
| United States | 5th | 5th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 5th | 6th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 12 |
| Total teams | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | |

## Results

| Year | Final Venue (host city) | Gold | Result | Silver | Bronze | Result | Fourth place |
| 2004 Details | Kisapuiston tekojäärata (Lappeenranta) | Sweden | 7–0 | Russia | Finland | 8–1 | Norway |
| 2006 Details | Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval (Roseville) | Sweden | 3–1 | Russia | Norway | 2–1 | Finland |
| 2007 Details | City Park Ice Rink (Budapest) | Sweden | 3–2 | Russia | Norway | 4–3 (ps) | Canada |
| 2008 Details | Tunets IP (Borlänge) | Sweden | 5–2 | Russia | Finland | 5–3 | Norway |
| 2010 Details | (Drammen) | Sweden | 3–2 (OT) | Russia | Norway | 3–2 | Canada |
| 2012 Details | Rekord Stadium (Irkutsk) | Sweden | 5–3 | Russia | Finland | 4–1 | Canada |
| 2014 Details | Kisapuiston tekojäärata (Lappeenranta) | Russia | 3–1 | Sweden | Finland | 3–2 (OT) | Norway |
| 2016 Details | Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval (Roseville) | Sweden | 1–0 | Russia | Norway | 3–2 (OT) | Canada |
| 2018 Details | Chengde Mountain Resort (Chengde) | Sweden | 1–0 | Russia | Norway | 5–2 | Finland |
| 2020 Details | Frogner stadion (Oslo) | Sweden | 3–1 | Russia | Norway | 6–1 | Finland |
| 2022 Details | Eriksson Arena (Växjö) | Sweden | 12–0 | Norway | Finland | 5–2 | United States |
| 2023 Details | Eriksson Arena (Växjö) | Sweden | 15–0 | Finland | United States | 4–0 | Netherlands |

### Medal table

* Host nation (-)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Sweden | 11 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | Russia | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10 |
| 3 | Norway | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 4 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 5 | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 36 |

## Bandy World Championship G-17

The Bandy World Championship G-17 or U17 (under 17) world championship in bandy for women, known as F17 WC and U17-världsmästerskapet i bandy för damer in Sweden, is the youth world championship in bandy for girls up to 17 years of age. The competition is held separately from the World Bandy Women's Championship which is for adults. G17 is sometimes written as F17 and the Y designations may also be written with a U.
The Youth Bandy World Championship is a tournament for girls' teams up to the age of 17 years. FC 17 is the only age group for which the world championship in bandy for young female players is held. The first tournament was held in 2009 and has since been held every two years.
Normally only teams from the main bandy countries of Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden participate, but the United States has participated a few times and at the tournament in Irkutsk 2017, a China U17 team made its debut.

### U17 medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Sweden | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | Russia | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Finland | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Totals (3 entries) | Totals (3 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |

## Gallery

* The Norwegian team celebrating the bronze medal in WCS 2006