List of IIHF World Championship medalists

The Ice Hockey World Championships is an annual event held by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). It was preceded by the European Championship which was held from 1910 to 1932. The first World Championship tournament was decided at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Subsequently, ice hockey was featured at the Winter Olympic Games, where the World Championship was decided when the two events occurred concurrently, until the 1968 Winter Olympics. The first three championships were contested at the Olympics, while the first World Championships that were an individual event were held in 1930.
The modern format for the World Championship features 16 teams in the championship group, 12 teams in Division I and 12 teams in Division II. If there are more than 40 teams, the rest compete in Division III. The teams in the championship play a preliminary and qualifying round, then the top eight teams play in the playoff medal round and the winning team is crowned World Champion. From the 1920 Olympics until the 1976 World Championships, only athletes designated as "amateur" were allowed to compete in the tournament. Because of this, players from the National Hockey League and its senior minor-league teams were not allowed to compete, while the Soviet Union was allowed to use permanent full-time players who were positioned as regular workers of an aircraft industry or tractor industry employer that sponsored what would be presented as an after-hours amateur social sports society team for their workers. In 1970, after an agreement to allow just a small number of its professionals to participate was rescinded by the IIHF, Canada withdrew from the tournament. Starting in 1977, professional athletes were allowed to compete in the tournament and Canada re-entered, using some NHL players from those teams that were not good enough to reach the Stanley Cup playoffs.
As of 2022, 85 tournaments have been staged. From 1920 to 1930, the Winter Olympic Games Ice Hockey Tournaments held counted as the World Championships and no tournaments in between were held. No championships were held from 1940 to 1946 due to World War II, nor during the Olympic years 1980, 1984 and 1988, nor in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. Ten nations have won a gold medal at the World Championships and a total of fourteen have won medals. Canada has won 52 medals, the most of any nation. The Soviet Union, which began competing in the year of 1954 and last competed in 1991, captured a medal in each of 34 tournaments they entered. In winning the 2006 World Championships, Sweden became the first nation in sports history to win an Olympic gold as well as a separate World Championship in the same season. In 2022 Finland repeated this achievement by winning the World Championships at home.
==Champions==
;Key
    	The Summer Olympic Games Ice Hockey Tournament held that year counted as the World Championships.
  *  	The Winter Olympic Games Ice Hockey Tournament held that year counted as the World Championships.
 	Number of times when national team has reached corresponding place at the time (or number of tournaments hosted by city / country at the time).
 	Second number indicates cumulative number of times when official successor country and its official predecessor (Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia or unified Germany) has reached corresponding place at the time (or cumulative number of tournaments hosted by official successor country and its official predecessor at the time).
Year 	Gold 	Silver 	Bronze 	4th place 	Host city / cities 	Host country / countries 	 	 	 	
1920 	 	 	 	 	Antwerp (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1924 * 	 	 	 	 	Chamonix (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1928 * 	 	 	 	 	St. Moritz (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1930 	 	 	 	 	Chamonix (2)Berlin (1)Vienna (1) 	(2) (1) (1) 	 	 	 	
1931 	 	 	 	 	Krynica (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1932 * 	 	 	 	 	Lake Placid (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1933 	 	 	 	 	Prague (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1934 	 	 	 	 	Milan (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1935 	 	 	 	 	Davos (1) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1936 * 	 	 	 	 	Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1937 	 	 	 	 	London (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1938 	 	 	 	 	Prague (2) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1939 	 	 	 	 	Zürich (1) and Basel (1) 	(3) 	 	 	 	
1940–1946	Competitions not held because of World War II 	Competitions not held because of World War II 	Competitions not held because of World War II 	Competitions not held because of World War II 	Competitions not held because of World War II 	Competitions not held because of World War II 	 	 	 	
1947 	 	 	 	 	Prague (3) 	(3) 	 	 	 	
1948 * 	 	 	 	 	St. Moritz (2) 	(4) 	 	 	 	
1949 	 	 	 	 	Stockholm (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1950 	 	 	 	 	London (2) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1951 	 	 	 	 	Paris (1) 	(3) 	 	 	 	
1952 * 	 	 	 	 	Oslo (1) and Drammen (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1953 	 	 	 	 	Zürich (2) and Basel (2) 	(5) 	 	 	 	
1954 	 	 	 	 	Stockholm (2) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1955 	 	 	 	 	Krefeld (1), Dortmund (1) and Cologne (1) 	(1/3) 	 	 	 	
1956 * 	 	 	 	 	Cortina d'Ampezzo (1) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1957 	 	 	 	 	Moscow (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1958 	 	 	 	 	Oslo (2) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1959 	 	 	 	 	Prague (4), Bratislava (1) and Ostrava (1) 	(4) 	 	 	 	
1960 * 	 	 	 	 	Squaw Valley (1) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1961 	 	 	 	 	Geneva (1) and Lausanne (1) 	(6) 	 	 	 	
1962 	 	 	 	 	Colorado Springs (1) and Denver (1) 	(3) 	 	 	 	
1963 	 	 	 	 	Stockholm (3) 	(3) 	 	 	 	
1964 * 	 	 	 	 	Innsbruck (1) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1965 	 	 	 	 	Tampere (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1966 	 	 	 	 	Ljubljana (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
1967 	 	 	 	 	Vienna (2) 	(3) 	 	 	 	
1968 * 	 	 	 	 	Grenoble (1) 	(4) 	 	 	 	
1969 	 	 	 	 	Stockholm (4) 	(4) 	 	 	 	
1970 	 	 	 	 	Stockholm (5) 	(5) 	 	 	 	
1971 	 	 	 	 	Bern (1) and Geneva (2) 	(7) 	 	 	 	
1972 	 	 	 	 	Prague (5) 	(5) 	 	 	 	
1973 	 	 	 	 	Moscow (2) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1974 	 	 	 	 	Helsinki (1) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1975 	 	 	 	 	Munich (1) and Düsseldorf (1) 	(2/4) 	 	 	 	
1976 	 	 	 	 	Katowice (1) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
1977 	 	 	 	 	Vienna (3) 	(4) 	 	 	 	
1978 	 	 	 	 	Prague (6) 	(6) 	 	 	 	
1979 	 	 	 	 	Moscow (3) 	(3) 	 	 	 	
1980 	Competition not held during 1980 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1980 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1980 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1980 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1980 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1980 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1980 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1980 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1980 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1980 Olympics
1981 	 	 	 	 	Gothenburg (1) and Stockholm (6) 	(6) 	 	 	 	
1982 	 	 	 	 	Helsinki (2) and Tampere (2) 	(3) 	 	 	 	
1983 	 	 	 	 	Düsseldorf (2), Dortmund (2) and Munich (2) 	(3/5) 	 	 	 	
1984 	Competition not held during 1984 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1984 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1984 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1984 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1984 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1984 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1984 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1984 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1984 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1984 Olympics
1985 	 	 	 	 	Prague (7) 	(7) 	 	 	 	
1986 	 	 	 	 	Moscow (4) 	(4) 	 	 	 	
1987 	 	 	 	 	Vienna (4) 	(5) 	 	 	 	
1988 	Competition not held during 1988 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1988 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1988 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1988 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1988 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1988 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1988 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1988 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1988 Olympics 	Competition not held during 1988 Olympics
1989 	 	 	 	 	Stockholm (7) and Södertälje (1) 	(7) 	 	 	 	
1990 	 	 	 	 	Bern (2) and Fribourg (1) 	(8) 	 	 	 	
1991 	 	 	 	 	Turku (1), Helsinki (3) and Tampere (3) 	(4) 	 	 	 	
1992 	 	 	 	 	Prague (8) and Bratislava (2) 	(8) 	 	 	 	
1993 	 	 	 	 	Dortmund (3) and Munich (3) 	(3/6) 	 	 	 	
1994 	 	 	 	 	Bolzano (1), Canazei (1) and Milan (2) 	(3) 	 	 	 	
1995 	 	 	 	 	Stockholm (8) and Gävle (1) 	(8) 	 	 	 	
1996 	 	 	 	 	Vienna (5) 	(6) 	 	 	 	
1997 	 	 	 	 	Helsinki (4), Turku (2) and Tampere (4) 	(5) 	 	 	 	
1998 	 	 	 	 	Zürich (3) and Basel (3) 	(9) 	 	 	 	
1999 	 	 	 	 	Oslo (3), Lillehammer (1) and Hamar (1) 	(3) 	 	 	 	
2000 	 	 	 	 	Saint Petersburg (1) 	(1/5) 	 	 	 	
2001 	 	 	 	 	Cologne (2), Hanover (1) and Nuremberg (1) 	(4/7) 	 	 	 	
2002 	 	 	 	 	Gothenburg (2), Karlstad (1) and Jönköping (1) 	(9) 	 	 	 	
2003 	 	 	 	 	Helsinki (5), Tampere (5) and Turku (3) 	(6) 	 	 	 	
2004 	 	 	 	 	Prague (9) and Ostrava (2) 	(1/9) 	 	 	 	
2005 	 	 	 	 	Innsbruck (2) and Vienna (6) 	(7) 	 	 	 	
2006 	 	 	 	 	Riga (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
2007 	 	 	 	 	Moscow (5) and Mytishchi (1) 	(2/6) 	 	 	 	
2008 	 	 	 	 	Halifax (1) and Quebec City (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
2009 	 	 	 	 	Kloten (1) and Bern (3) 	(10) 	 	 	 	
2010 	 	 	 	 	Cologne (3), Mannheim (1) and Gelsenkirchen (1) 	(5/8) 	 	 	 	
2011 	 	 	 	 	Bratislava (3) and Košice (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
2012 	 	 	 	 	Helsinki (6) Stockholm (9) 	(7) (10) 	 	 	 	
2013 	 	 	 	 	Stockholm (10)Helsinki (7) 	(11) (8) 	 	 	 	
2014 	 	 	 	 	Minsk (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
2015 	 	 	 	 	Prague (10) and Ostrava (3) 	(2/10) 	 	 	 	
2016 	 	 	 	 	Moscow (6) and Saint Petersburg (2) 	(3/7) 	 	 	 	
2017 	 	 	 	 	Cologne (4)Paris (2) 	(6/9) (5) 	 	 	 	
2018 	 	 	 	 	Copenhagen (1) and Herning (1) 	(1) 	 	 	 	
2019 	 	 	 	 	Bratislava (4) and Košice (2) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
2020 	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 	 	 	 	 	Riga (2) 	(2) 	 	 	 	
2022 	 	 	 	 	Tampere (6) and Helsinki (8) 	(9) 	 	 	 	
2023 	 	 	 	 	Tampere (7)Riga (3) 	(10) (3) 	 	 	 	
2024 	 	 	 	 	Prague (11) and Ostrava (4) 	(3/11) 	 	 	 	
2025 	 	 	 	 	Stockholm (11)Herning (2) 	(12) (2) 	 	 	 	
2026 	 	 	 	 	Zürich (4) and Fribourg (2) 	(11) 	 	 	 	
2027 	 	 	 	 	Düsseldorf (3) and Mannheim (2) 	(7/10) 	 	 	 	
==Total hosts==
Hosts	Nations (Year(s))
11 	(1949, 1954, 1963, 1969, 1970, 1981, 1989, 1995, 2002, 2012*, 2013*)
10 	/ (1933, 1938, 1947, 1959, 1972, 1978, 1985, 1992 / 2004, 2015) (1965, 1974, 1982, 1991, 1997, 2003, 2012*, 2013*, 2022, 2023*) (1928, 1935, 1939, 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1990, 1998, 2009)
9 	/ (1930*, 1936 / 1955, 1975, 1983 / 1993, 2001, 2010, 2017*)
7 	(1930*, 1964, 1967, 1977, 1987, 1996, 2005) / (1957, 1973, 1979, 1986 / 2000, 2007, 2016)
5 	(1924, 1930*, 1951, 1968, 2017*)
3 	(1934, 1956, 1994) (2006, 2021, 2023*) (1952, 1958, 1999) (1932, 1960, 1962)
2 	(1937, 1950) (1931, 1976) (2011, 2019)
1 	(2014) (1920) (2008) (2018) (1966)
:* = co-hosts
==Medal table==
Countries in italics no longer compete at the World Championships.
Rank 	Nation 	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1 	 	28 	16 	9 	53
2 	 	5 	3 	5 	13
2 	 	22 	7 	5 	34
2 	Total: 	27 	10 	10 	47
3 	 	6 	1 	6 	13
3 	 	6 	12 	16 	34
3 	Total: 	12 	13 	22 	47
4 	 	11 	19 	17 	47
5 	 	4 	9 	3 	16
6 	 	2 	9 	9 	20
7 	 	1 	2 	2 	5
8 	 	1 	2 	1 	4
9 	 	0 	3 	8 	11
10 	 	0 	2 	2 	4
10 	West Germany 	0 	1 	0 	1
10 	Total: 	0 	3 	2 	5
11 	 	0 	0 	2 	2
12 	 	0 	0 	1 	1
Totals (15 nations)	Totals (15 nations)	86 	86 	86 	258
===Finals===
Since the introduction of play-off rounds in 1992, the following national teams have made the finals.
Country	Gold	Silver	Total finals
 	9 	7 	16
 	4 	9 	13
 	6 	6 	12
 	5 	3 	8
 	6 	1 	7
 	1 	2 	3
 	0 	2 	2
 	0 	1 	1
Total 	31 	31 	62
==Most successful players==
Boldface denotes active ice hockey players and highest medal count among all players (including these who not included in these tables) per type. "Position" denotes player position on the hockey rink (D – defenceman; F – forward; G – goaltender).
===Multiple gold medalists===
Rank	Player 	Country	Position	From	To 	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1 	Vladislav Tretiak 	 	G 	1970	1983	10 	2 	1 	13
2 	Alexander Ragulin 	 	D 	1961	1973	10 	1 	1 	12
3 	Alexander Maltsev 	 	F 	1969	1983	9 	2 	1 	12
4 	Vladimir Petrov 	 	F 	1969	1981	9 	1 	1 	11
5 	Vyacheslav Starshinov	 	F 	1961	1971	9 	– 	1 	10
6 	Vitali Davydov 	 	D 	1963	1971	9 	– 	– 	9
7 	Valeri Kharlamov 	 	F 	1969	1979	8 	2 	1 	11
7 	Vladimir Lutchenko 	 	D 	1969	1979	8 	2 	1 	11
7 	Boris Mikhailov 	 	F 	1969	1979	8 	2 	1 	11
7 	Valeri Vasiliev 	 	D 	1970	1982	8 	2 	1 	11
===Multiple medalists===
The table shows players who have won at least 11 medals in total at the World Championships.
Rank	Player 	Country	Position	From	To 	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1 	Vladislav Tretiak 	 	G 	1970	1983	10 	2 	1 	13
2 	Jiří Holík 	 	F 	1964	1977	3 	6 	4 	13
3 	Alexander Ragulin 	 	D 	1961	1973	10 	1 	1 	12
4 	Alexander Maltsev 	 	F 	1969	1983	9 	2 	1 	12
5 	Vladimir Petrov 	 	F 	1969	1981	9 	1 	1 	11
6 	Valeri Kharlamov 	 	F 	1969	1979	8 	2 	1 	11
6 	Vladimir Lutchenko 	 	D 	1969	1979	8 	2 	1 	11
6 	Boris Mikhailov 	 	F 	1969	1979	8 	2 	1 	11
6 	Valeri Vasiliev 	 	D 	1970	1982	8 	2 	1 	11
10 	Sergei Makarov 	 	F 	1978	1991	8 	1 	2 	11
11 	Viacheslav Fetisov 	 	D 	1977	1991	7 	1 	3 	11
12 	Veniamin Alexandrov	 	F 	1957	1968	6 	3 	2 	11
13 	Ivan Hlinka 	 	F 	1970	1981	3 	5 	3 	11
13 	Oldřich Machač 	 	D 	1968	1978	3 	5 	3 	11
13 	Vladimír Martinec 	 	F 	1970	1981	3 	5 	3 	11
===Best performers by country===
Here are listed most successful players in the history of each of 15 medal-winning national teams – according to the gold-first ranking system and by total number of World Championships medals (one player if he holds national records in both categories or few players if these national records belongs to different persons). If the total number of medals is identical, the gold, silver and bronze medals are used as tie-breakers (in that order). If all numbers are the same, the players get the same placement and are sorted by the alphabetic order.
Country	Player 	Position	From 	To 	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
 	Vladislav Tretiak 	G 	1970 	1983 	10 	2 	1 	13
 	David Výborný 	F 	1996 	2006 	5 	1 	2 	8
 	Jiří Holík 	F 	1964 	1977 	3 	6 	4 	13
 	Jonas Bergqvist(by the gold-first ranking system) 	F 	1986 	1998 	3 	3 	1 	7
 	Sven "Tumba" Johansson(by total number of medals) 	F 	1952 	1965 	3 	2 	4 	9
 	Alexander Ovechkin 	F 	2005 	2019 	3 	2 	4 	9
 	Eric Brewer(by the gold-first ranking system) 	D 	2003 	2007 	3 	– 	– 	3
 	Shane Doan &Dany Heatley(by total number of medals) 	F 	2003 	2009 	2 	3 	– 	5
 	Atte Ohtamaa(by the gold-first ranking system) 	D 	2014 	2022 	2 	3 	– 	5
 	Ville Peltonen(by total number of medals) 	F 	1994 	2008 	1 	4 	3 	8
 	Gordon Dailley 	F/D 	1935 	1938 	1 	2 	1 	4
 	Gerry Davey 	F/D 	1935 	1938 	1 	2 	1 	4
 	Miroslav Šatan 	F 	2000 	2012 	1 	2 	1 	4
 	John Garrison &John Mayasich(by the gold-first ranking system) 	D/FF/D 	19321956	19361962	11 	11 	11 	33
 	Allen Van(by total number of medals) 	D 	1939 	1952 	– 	3 	1 	4
 	Reto Berra,Raphael Diaz,Roman Josi,Simon Moser &Nino Niederreiter(by the gold-first ranking system)	GDDFF 	2013 	2018 	– 	2 	– 	2
 	Richard "Bibi" Torriani(by total number of medals) 	F 	1928 	1948 	– 	1 	5 	6
 	Gustav Jaenecke 	F/D 	1930 	1934 	– 	1 	2 	3
 	Walter Leinweber 	G 	1930 	1934 	– 	1 	2 	3
 	Erich Römer 	D/F 	1930 	1934 	– 	1 	2 	3
 	16 players 	D, F, G 	1953 	1953 	– 	1 	– 	1
 	Fritz Demmer 	F 	1931 	1947 	– 	– 	2 	2
 	27 players 	D, F, G 	2023 	2023 	– 	– 	1 	1
==See also==
*List of IIHF World Championship directorate award winners
*List of IIHF World Junior Championship medalists
*IIHF World Women's Championship
*4 Nations Cup
*Ice hockey at the Olympic Games
==References==
===General===
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==External links==
*International Ice Hockey Federation
*Medal table and alternative medal table
Medalists
World Championship, IIHF, medalists
IIHF World Championship