# 1996 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

The 1996 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships was the first IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships held in March, 1996 Nynäshamn, Sweden. Participating countries: Canada, Estonia, Japan, Norway, Sweden and United States. Japan made its debut at the World Championship.

## Final rankings

( Rosters are not yet complete )
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | 4th: | 5th | 6th |
| Sweden Jan Edbom Bengt-Gösta Johansson Kenth Jonsson Marcus Nordstrom Göran Karlsson Jens Kask Leif Norgren Mats Nyman Leif Wahlstedt | Norway Helge Bjørnstad Knut Erling Granaas Eskil Hagen Atle Haglund Kjetil Korbu Nilsen Rolf Öjen Rolf Einar Pedersen Erik Sandbraaten Morten Syversen | Canada Yves Carrier Dean Delaurier Dave Eamer Angelo Gavillucci Pat Griffin Jean Labonté John May Dean Mellway Lou Mulvihill Ken Schneider Brian Swan Dany Verner | Estonia Viktor Artemjev Aleksander Jarlõkov Kaido Kalm Viktor Karlenko Jüri Tammleht Maksim Vedernikov Leonid Zubov | United States Dave Conklin Manuel Guerra Jr. Dan Henderson William Michael Kult Wayne Chuck Lindsey Kip St.Germaine Thomas F McNally Joseph M Wilson | Japan Tadanobu Go Naohiko Ishida Kanichi Naito Toshifumi Takeuchi Atsuya Yaguchi Mamoru Yoshikawa |

## Tournament
### Tournament summary

| Rank | Team | SWE | CAN | NOR | EST | USA | JPN | Played | Wins | Ties | Losses | GF | GA | Points |
| 1 | SWE | | 1-1 | 4-1 | 4-1 | 11-0 | 21-0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 3 | 9 |
| 2 | CAN | 1-1 | | 1-1 | 3-0 | 5-0 | 10-0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | NOR | 1-4 | 1-1 | | 4-1 | 2-0 | 15-0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 6 | 7 |
| 4 | EST | 1-4 | 0-3 | 1-4 | | 5-1 | 8-1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 4 |
| 5 | USA | 0-11 | 0-5 | 0-2 | 1-5 | | 3-0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 2 |
| 6 | JPN | 0-21 | 0-10 | 0-15 | 1-8 | 0-3 | | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 57 | 0 |
Sweden 11 - 1 United States
* ( SWE: Jan Edbom 5, Göran Karlsson 2, Leif Wahlstedt 2, Mats Nyman 1, Jens Kask 1 USA: Wayne C Lindsey 1 )
Norway 15 - 0 Japan
* ( NOR: Atle Haglund 5, Rolf Einar Pedersen 3, Eskil Hagen 1, Kjetl Korbu Nielsen 1, Helge Björnstad 1, Rolf Öjen 1, Morten Syversen 1 )
Sweden 21 - 0 Japan
* ( SWE: Jan Edbom 8, Mats Nyman 4, Göran Karlsson 4, Jens Kask 3, Bengt-Gösta Johansson 2 )
United States 0 - 5 Canada
* ( CAN: John May 2, Dean Mellway 2, Lou Mulvihill 1 )
Norway 11 - 0 United States
* ( NOR: Helge Björnstad 4, Eskil Hagen 2, Rolf Einar Pedersen 2, Atle Haglund 1, Erik Sandbraaten 1, Morten Syversen 1 )
Sweden 4 - 1 Estonia
* ( SWE: Mats Nyman 3, Jan Edbom 1 EST: Viktor Karlenko 1 )
Norway 4 - 1 Estonia
* ( NOR: Helge Björnstad 3, Eskil Hagen 1 EST: Viktor Artemjev 1 )
Canada 10 - 0 Japan
* ( CAN: Dean Mellway 3, Dave Earner 2, Pat Griffin 1, Jean Labonté 1, Angelo Gavilluci 1, John May 1 )
Canada 1 - 1 Norway
* ( CAN: Lou Mulvihill 1 NOR: Helge Björnstad 1 )
Estonia 8 - 1 Japan
* ( EST: Jün Tammleht 3, Kaido Kalm 2, Viktor Karlenko 2, Viktor Artemjev 1 JPN: Mamoru Yoshikawa 1 )
Japan 0 - 3 United States
* ( USA: Wayne Chuck Lindsey 1, Thomas F Mc Nally 1, Joseph M Wilson 1 )
Canada 3 - 0 Estonia
* ( CAN: Dean Mellway 2, Jean Labonté 1 )
Sweden 4 - 1 Norway
* ( SWE: Jan Edbom 2, Mats Nyman 1, Jens Kask 1 NOR: Kjetil Korbu Nielsen 1 )
Estonia 5 - 1 United States
* ( EST: Jüri Tammeleht 2, Kaido Kalm 1, Leonid Zubov 1, Viktor Karlenko 1 USA: William Michael Kult 1 )
Sweden 1 - 1 Canada
* ( SWE: Jocke Larsson 1 CAN: Dean Mellway 1 )

## Semifinals

Sweden 7 - 1 Estonia
* ( SWE: Jens Kask 3, Jan Edbom 2, Bengt-Gösta Johansson 1, Jock Larsson 1 EST: Viktor Karlenko 1 )
Norway 2 - 1 Canada
* ( NOR: Eskil Hagen 2 CAN: Dean Mellway 1 )

## 3rd-place match

Canada 3 - 1 Estonia
* (CAN: Lou Mulvihill 1, Dean Mellway 1, Pat Griffin 1 EST: Jüri Tammleht 1 )

## Final

Sweden 3 - 2 Norway
* (SWE: Jan Edbom 2, Göran Karlsson 1 NOR: Atle Haglund 1, Eskil Hagen 1 )

## 1996 World All Star Team

* United States Manuel Guerra Jr. (mv)- all-star goaltender
* Norway Eskil Hagen
* Norway Helge Björnstad
* Sweden Jan Edbom
* Canada Pat Griffin
* Estonia Jüri Tammleht