National Bandy Association was the first English governing body for the team winter sport of bandy , and actually the first bandy governing body anywhere in the world. The association was founded in 1891. The first general rules for bandy were written down by Englishman Charles Goodman Tebbutt in 1882. Bandy was a popular sport in England until the First World War , and the England national bandy team won the 1913 European Bandy Championships , but then the English lost interest in the sport and the National Bandy Association was discontinued.
18-862: The Bandy Federation of England was founded in 2010 with the intent of reviving the sport in England and has been a member of the Federation of International Bandy since its founding year. It was renamed the Great Britain Bandy Association in 2017. This article about a sports-related organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This bandy article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Federation of International Bandy The Federation of International Bandy ( FIB ; French : Fédération internationale de bandy , Russian : Международная федерация хоккея с мячом , Swedish : Internationella Bandyförbundet )
36-485: A Misplaced Pages article. 2022 Women%27s Bandy World Championship The 2022 Women's Bandy World Championship was an international bandy tournament for women and the 11th (XI) Women's Bandy World Championship organized by the Federation of International Bandy (FIB). The event was contested by eight teams from 23 to 27 March 2022 in Åby , Sweden . Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine , Team Russia withdrew from
54-609: Is the international governing body for the sport of bandy , including the variant called rink bandy . The federation is headquartered in Simrishamn Municipality, Sweden . Bandy as known today has been played since the later half of the 19th century. Rules were set up in the 1890s by the National Bandy Association in England and by the corresponding body in Russia. The Ligue International de Hockey sur Glace (LIHG)
72-587: The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , the Federation of International Bandy excluded Russia from participating in the 2022 Women's Bandy World Championship . The men's 2020 Bandy World Championship had already been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was to be held in 2022, but was finally cancelled on 1 March 2022, after Finland, Sweden, Norway, and the United States announced that they would not take part in
90-572: The Ukraine team had to withdraw due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . The 2022 Women's Bandy World Championships took place in Åby , a small community north of Växjö , in southern Sweden about 400 kilometers south of Stockholm . The tournament was held at the Eriksson Arena a newly built bandy arena which was completed in 2019. [1] Åby/Tjureda IF, a team in the Bandyallsvenskan ,
108-574: The 2022 world championship after its initial attempt to compete at the 2014 Women's Bandy World Championship had failed to materialize. The 2023 Women's Bandy World Championship was to be hosted in late March and early April again in Åby in Växjö, Sweden, alongside the men's 2023 Bandy World Championship . According to the Federation of International Bandy (FIB), the competition was postponed from its initial start date due to organizing problems in Sweden. It
126-536: The Soviet Union and Sweden. The federation has had its base in Sweden since 1979. Henrik Nilsson is the current President of the FIB. When FIB was formed in 1955, it introduced the same rules for bandy all over the world. Especially in Russia and other Soviet Republics , different rules had been used prior to this. Bandy World Championships have been organized for men since 1957 and for women since 2004. The federation
144-700: The Soviet Union. LIHG is now the International Ice Hockey Federation . In the 1940s, the Nordic countries Finland , Norway and Sweden set up a joint rules committee. In the early 1950s, the Soviet Union decided to break out of its isolation in international sport and started a friendly exchange with said Nordic countries. The federation was formed on 12 February 1955 at Hotell Malmen in Stockholm , Sweden , by representatives from Finland, Norway,
162-535: The acronym BWF). In 2004, FIB was accepted by IOC. FIB is a member of Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations as well as Global Association of International Sports Federations . The number of bandy playing nations have grown considerably in the last decades. There were 27 national members of the federation as of 2017 and Slovakia applied for membership. After the International Olympic Committee's recommendations following
180-540: The competition in Russia due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2011, FIB formulated its purposes as being the following. FIB vows to completely share the principles and articles of the Olympic Charter in its activities, including the policy with regard to anti-doping controls. FIB wants to promote the development of the sports of bandy and rink bandy in the member countries and wants to carry on propaganda for
198-586: The importance and advantages of these sports. FIB also works for bandy to become an Olympic sport. FIB declares itself to be an "independent autonomic mainsports organization which mainly is governing bandy activities all over the world". FIB leads and supervises bandy and rink bandy around the world. FIB also sees as its job to settle the rules for the games. One national member association should be entrusted by FIB with arranging an official world championship. FIB means that at least four nations must participate for it to be worth an event. FIB also wants to promote
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#1732852776248216-664: The introduction and the membership of new nations to the organisation. The rules of bandy are set in the Bandy Playing Rules . It is overseen by the Rules and Referee Committee. FIB has an agreement with the International Skating Union to use the same arenas. The cooperation between the two federations is increasing, since both have an interest in more indoor venues with large ice surfaces being built. The following persons have been presidents of FIB: The federation
234-515: The tournament and although the Ukraine women's national bandy team was scheduled to participate, they had to withdraw. Team Ukraine's appearance was meant to be the Ukrainian women's bandy world debut, almost a century after women's bandy teams were first recorded to have appeared in Kharkiv , Ukraine, in 1927. The Great Britain women's national bandy team made its first international appearance at
252-727: Was founded by the national bandy associations in Finland, Norway, the Soviet Union and Sweden on 12 February 1955. The Soviet membership was taken over by Russia in early 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. For two months, the former Soviet Union national bandy team appeared as Commonwealth of Independent States , but the CIS was never formally a member of the FIB. The member associations are divided in geographical zones. There are 27 associations in 4 zones (as of 25 March 2022 ): Furthermore, on 26 September 2023, Italy
270-454: Was founded on 15 May 1908 at 34 Rue de Provence in Paris, France, at a time when bandy and ice hockey were seen as variants of the same game. The founders of the federation were representatives from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Bohemia (now Czech republic). However, as ice hockey became an Olympic sport while bandy did not, bandy only survived in some of the Nordic countries and
288-682: Was granted provisional membership. Some of the Asian countries in FIB, and also the former member Kyrgyzstan, have founded the Asian Bandy Association , which has its headquarters in Astana (most recently known as Nur-Sultan), Kazakhstan. This helps organize the bandy competition at the Asian Winter Games and works to spread the knowledge of bandy in Asia. Members: Only listing those which have
306-474: Was initially planned to be held in Stockholm, Sweden , January 9-16, 2022 at the newly built Gubbängen's Skating and Bandy Arena (Bandyhallen i Gubbängen in Swedish). The tournament was to be the first Women's Bandy World Championship to be played indoors and still was after the change of venue. The new date for the 2022 Women's Bandy World Championship was set for March 23-27, 2022. The Russian team withdrew and
324-604: Was named the International Bandy Federation ( IBF ) between 1957 and 2001. The current name was adopted at a request from the International Olympic Committee when the IOC made bandy a "recognized sport", since the acronym IBF at the time was already in use by the International Badminton Federation (in 2006, the International Badminton Federation changed names to Badminton World Federation and now uses
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