2007 Bandy World Championship

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]

2007 Bandy World Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Russia
City	Kemerovo
Venue(s)	2
Dates	28 January – 4 February
Teams	12
Final positions
Champions	Russia
Runners-up	Sweden
Third place	Finland
Fourth place	Kazakhstan
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Participating teams

Division A  Belarus  Finland  Kazakhstan  Norway  Russia  Sweden

Division B  Estonia  Hungary  Latvia  Mongolia  Netherlands  United States

Division A

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Group stage result
1	Russia (H)	5	4	1	0	70	14	+56	9	Advance to Knockout stage
2	Finland	5	4	0	1	34	20	+14	8
3	Sweden	5	3	1	1	56	21	+35	7
4	Kazakhstan	5	2	0	3	33	37	−4	4
5	Norway	5	1	0	4	23	55	−32	2
6	Belarus	5	0	0	5	11	80	−69	0	Qualification to Relegation playoffs

Updated to match(es) played on completed. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

28 January 2007

Finland	14–1	Belarus

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

28 January 2007

Kazakhstan	1–8	Sweden

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

28 January 2007

Russia	18–2	Norway

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

29 January 2007

Sweden	21–5	Belarus

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

29 January 2007

Norway	4–11	Kazakhstan

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

29 January 2007

Finland	5–9	Russia

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

30 January 2007

Belarus	1–8	Norway

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

30 January 2007

Kazakhstan	3–17	Russia

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

30 January 2007

Sweden	4–5	Finland

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

31 January 2007

Belarus	3–14	Kazakhstan

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

31 January 2007

Norway	2–5	Finland

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

31 January 2007

Sweden	3–3	Russia

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

2 February 2007

Sweden	20–7	Norway

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

2 February 2007

Finland	5–4	Kazakhstan

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

2 February 2007

Russia	23–1	Belarus

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	3 February – Kemerovo
	Russia	16
					4 February – Kemerovo
	Kazakhstan	3
					Russia	3
	3 February – Kemerovo
					Sweden	1
	Finland	2(2)
	Sweden	2(3)
					Third place
					4 February – Kemerovo
					Kazakhstan	4(4)
					Finland	4(5)

Semi-finals

3 February 2007

Russia	16–3	Kazakhstan

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

3 February 2007

Finland	2–3 (sd)	Sweden

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

Third place play-off

4 February 2007

Kazakhstan	4–5 (sd)	Finland

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

Final

4 February 2007

Russia	3–1	Sweden

Khimik Stadium, Kemerovo

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
• Dmitry Savelyev (bandy player) [ru]
• 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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	United States	5	5	0	0	51	5	+46	10
2	Latvia	5	4	0	1	26	8	+18	8
3	Hungary	5	2	1	2	11	25	−14	5
4	Netherlands	5	1	1	3	10	23	−13	3
5	Mongolia	5	0	2	3	4	22	−18	2
6	Estonia	5	1	0	4	11	30	−19	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

• 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