Ice Hockey Winter Olympics
The beijing national indoor stadium which seats 18000 is one of what are being called olympic green venues.
Ice hockey winter olympics. The 2022 olympic mens ice hockey tournament will be played according to the same format used in pyeongchang 2018 sochi 2014 and vancouver 2010 with three groups of four teams each. Unsurprisingly canada dominated the first tournaments. Canada dominated the early years of olympic ice hockey winning the gold medal in five of the first six tournaments. Ice hockey at the 2010 winter olympics was held at rogers arena then known as gm place and renamed canada hockey place for the duration of the games due to ioc sponsorship rules home of the national hockey league s vancouver canucks and at ubc winter sports centre home of the canadian interuniversity sport s ubc thunderbirds.
Since 1976 12 teams have. The gangneung hockey centre which seats 10000 and the kwandong hockey centre which seats 6000 were both originally scheduled to be completed in 2016 but appear to have been completed in early 2017. The winter olympics which began in 1924 in chamonix france included a mens ice hockey tournament and it has been part of the winter games ever since. Ice hockey at the 2006 winter olympics was held at the torino palasport olimpico and the torino esposizioni in turin italy.
Representing canada the winnipeg falcons pictured en route to the 1920 summer. The mens tournament held at the 1920 summer olympics was organized by a committee that included future iihf. The mens tournament will have twelve teams competing the womens tournament will have ten teams for the first time. An ice hockey tournament was also held at the 1920 summer olympics.
But its domination was not to last. The ice hockey competitions of the 2022 winter olympics will be played at two venues located in the beijing cluster. The ice hockey competitions of the 2018 winter olympics were played at two venues within the gangneung coastal cluster in gangneung south korea. Ice hockey at the olympic games inception as an olympic sport.
Canada represented by the conn smythe coached toronto varsity blues won its third consecutive gold medal. Six a side mens ice hockey has been on the programme of every edition of the winter games since 1924 in chamonix. The mens competition held from 15 to 26 february was won by sweden and the womens competition held from 11 to 20 february was won by canada. On 9 december 2019 the world anti do.
The wukesong arena seating 10000 will also be used with both arenas was constructed for the 2008 summer olympics. Womens ice hockey was accepted as an olympic sport in 1992 and made its official debut in 1998 in nagano. Ice hockey is a sport that is contested at the winter olympic games. A mens ice hockey tournament has been held every winter olympics starting in 1924.