2014 IIHF World Championship | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 14/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_IIHF_World_Championship


00:02:09 1 Host selection
00:05:08 2 Venues
00:05:17 3 Rosters
00:05:55 4 Officials
00:06:18 5 Format
00:08:48 6 Preliminary round
00:09:10 6.1 Group A
00:09:19 6.2 Group B
00:09:28 7 Playoff round
00:09:38 7.1 Quarterfinals
00:09:47 7.2 Semifinals
00:09:57 7.3 Bronze medal game
00:10:07 7.4 Gold medal game
00:10:16 8 Ranking and statistics
00:10:27 8.1 Tournament Awards
00:10:42 8.2 Final ranking
00:10:59 8.3 Scoring leaders
00:11:11 8.4 Leading goaltenders
00:11:25 9 IIHF broadcasting rights
00:11:46 10 Notes
00:12:09 11 References
00:12:24 12 External links
00:12:39 Save Percentage; SO
00:12:57 IIHF broadcasting rights



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SUMMARY
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The 2014 IIHF World Championship was hosted by Belarus in its capital, Minsk. Sixteen national teams were competing in two venues, the Minsk-Arena and Chizhovka-Arena. It was the first time Belarus hosted the tournament. The selection of Belarus to host this competition was the subject of much debate, with some politicians in both Europe and the United States calling for the IIHF to move the tournament to another country.
Russia with a mix of NHL and KHL stars (unlike other nations, Russia comprised a squad close to their 2014 Olympic squad) remained undefeated throughout the championship. After losing on home-ice to Finland 1-3 earlier that year during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Quarterfinals, in a rematch, captured the gold medal by defeating Finland 5–2 in the final Sweden captured the bronze medal with a 3–0 victory over the Czech Republic. Host team Belarus made the playoffs for the first time since 2009, losing to Sweden 3–2 in the quarterfinal. Italy and Kazakhstan were relegated to Division I A. Prior to the championship, Division I-III had played their tournaments to establish the rank between teams of lower levels.
The tournament saw a new attendance record for the World Championship, as a total of 640,044 people attended games, surpassing the record set at the 2004 tournament in the Czech Republic, which had 552,097 spectators.