2007 Bandy World Championship Explained

Year:	2007
Size:	200px
Country:	Russia
Dates:	28 January – 4 February
Num Teams:	12
Venues:	2
City:	Kemerovo
Type:	bandy
Winners:	RUS
Second:	SWE
Third:	FIN
Fourth:	KAZ
Prevseason:	Stockholm 2006
Nextseason:	Moscow 2008

The 2007 Bandy World Championship was held in Kemerovo, Russia from 27 January to 4 February. Men's national teams from 12 countries participated in the 2007 tournament: Belarus, Finland, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia, Sweden (group A) and Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Mongolia, the Netherlands and the United States (group B). Canada was initially also supposed to take part in the tournament but withdrew so Latvia took its place. Belarus retained their place in group A by beating the United States in a playoff at the end of the previous tournament held in 2006.^[1]

Participating teams

Division B

Division A

Knockout stage

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

19 goals

• Sergey Obukhov

16 goals

• David Karlsson

14 goals

• Daniel Andersson

13 goals

• Yevgeny Ivanushkin
• Sami Laakkonen
• Pavel Ryazantsev

12 goals

• Vyacheslav Bronnikov

11 goals

• Sergey Lomanov, Jr.

9 goals

• Denis Kriushenkov

7 goals

• Sergey Tarasov

6 goals

• Marcus Bergwall
• Jonas Edling
• Ivan Maksimov

5 goals

• Ville Aaltonen
• Johan Andersson
• Sergey Chernetsky
• Kjetil Johansen
• Christer Lystad
• Andrey Morikov
• Mikhail Sveshnikov

4 goals

• Mikko Aarni
• Maksim Chermnykh
• Denis In-Fa-Lin
• Rasmus Lindqvist
• Thomas Moen
• Mika Mutikainen

3 goals

• Stefan Erixon
• Påhl Hanssen
• Samuli Niskanen
• Evgenij Sviridov
• Anton Zybarev

2 goals

• Marius Austad
• Olov Englund
• Per Hellmyrs
• Rauan Isaliev
• Daniel Mossberg
• Magnus Muhrén
• Vladislav Novozhilov
• Pekka Rintala
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• Dmitry Starikov
• Yury Stepochkin
• Aleksandr Tyukavin
• Yury Vikulin
• Dmitrij Zavidovskij
• Igor Zolotarev

1 goal

• Hans Andersson
• Kjetil Bergh
• Vadim Bogdanovich
• Artem Botvenkov
• Mikhail Dobrynin
• Aleksandr Dryagin
• Antti Ekman
• Stian Holmen-Jensen
• Kimmo Huotelin
• Petteri Lampinen
• Jan Magnus Olaisen
• Tommi Österberg
• Anders Östling
• Yury Pogrebnoy
• Roman Poloskin
• Denis Slautin
• Mikhail Tarasenko
• Christian Waaler
• Alexei Zagarskikh
• Alexej Zolotarev

Division B

All Division B games 2x30 minute halves apart from A6-B1 playoff which is of regular 2x45 minute halves

Preliminary round

• 28 January

Netherlands – USA 0–11

Latvia – Mongolia 5–0

Estonia – Hungary 2–4

Netherlands – Mongolia 2–2

• 29 January

Hungary – Latvia 0–7

USA – Mongolia 8–0

Netherlands – Estonia 5–1

USA – Hungary 12–2

• 30 January

Estonia – Mongolia 5–0

USA – Latvia 6–1

Netherlands – Hungary 2–3

Estonia – Latvia 1–7

• 31 January

USA – Estonia 14–2

Netherlands – Latvia 1–6

Hungary – Mongolia 2–2

Final round

• 1 February and 2 February

Estonia – Mongolia 1–4, 2–2

Netherlands – Hungary 3–1, 4–3

Latvia – USA 0–5, 6–2

Division A play-off

Belarus – USA 9–1

See also

• Bandy World Championship

External links

Bandy World Championship site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bandysidan.nu - Evenemang.