2013 Bandy World Championship Explained

Year:	2013
Other Titles:	XXXIIIrd Bandy World Championship
Size:	200px
Country:	Sweden
Country2:	Norway
Dates:	27 January–3 February
Num Teams:	14
Venues:	5
Cities:	5
Type:	other
Count:	7
Scoring Leader:	Patrik Nilsson (21 goals)
Mvp:	Sergey Lomanov, Jr.
Prevseason:	Almaty 2012
Nextseason:	Irkutsk 2014

The 2013 Bandy World Championship was an edition of the top annual event in international bandy, held between January 23 and February 3, 2013, in Norway and Sweden.

14 countries participated in the 2013 championships: Belarus, Finland, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia, Sweden (group A), Canada, Estonia, Japan, Hungary, Latvia, the Netherlands, Ukraine and the United States (group B). The B-group Championship was played in Sapa Arena in Vetlanda. The B-Group games were only played 2x30 minutes.^[1]

Venues

width=20%	Vänersborg	width=20%	Gothenburg	width=20%	Trollhättan	width=20%	Oslo	width=20%	Vetlanda
Arena Vänersborg Capacity: 5,700	Heden Arena Capacity: 5,700	Slättbergshallen Capacity: 4,000	Frogner stadion Capacity: 4,200	Sapa Arena Capacity: 2,200

Participating teams

Division B

Division A

Preliminary round

All times local (UTC+1)

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27 January 2013
	5–3
	5–2
	6–4
28 January 2013
	21–2
	0–12
	9–2
29 January 2013
	10–1
	3–6
	28–1
30 January 2013
	4–8
	28–1
	10–0
31 January 2013
	14–0
	2–10
	7–5

Match for fifth place

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2 February 2013
	11–0

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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2 February 2013
	8–2
	10–2

Match for third place

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3 February 2013
	6–3

Final

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3 February 2013
	4–3

Final standings

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3.
4.
5.
6.

Statistics

Goalscorers

21 goals

Patrik Nilsson

16 goals

Igor Larionov

12 goals

Daniel Andersson
Vyacheslav Bronnikov
Yevgeny Ivanushkin

10 goals

Sami Laakkonen
Pavel Ryazantsev

9 goals

Sergey Pochkunov

8 goals

Johan Esplund
Johan Löfstedt

Division B

Group 1

Note - Matches were of 60 minutes duration rather than the standard 90 minutes in Group A.All times local (UTC+1)

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23 January 2013
	10–1
24 January 2013
	6–3
	0–11
	0–14
	7–3
25 January 2013
	8–1

Group 2

Note - Matches were of 60 minutes duration rather than the standard 90 minutes in Group A.All times local (UTC+1)

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24 January 2013
	13–6
	2–3
	3–5
	3–0
25 January 2013
	8–5
	2–6

Final tour

Match for seventh place

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25 January 2013
	6–5
26 January 2013
	3–1

Quarterfinals

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25 January 2013
	7–1
	4–1

Semifinals

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26 January 2013
	8–1
	8–1

Match for fifth place

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26 January 2013
	1–2

Match for third place

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26 January 2013
	3–2

Final

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26 January 2013
	4–2

Final standings

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

The USA will replace Belarus in group A next year.^[2]

External links

Sweden - Russia game on 2013.01.31, Youtube with Russian commentators (the game starts about 6:50 in)

Notes and References

Web site: B-VM spelas i Vetlanda. 14 December 2014.
Web site: Norge kvar i A-VM: Vitryssland ker ur och erstts av USA. emh solutions. 14 December 2014.