1957 World Ice Hockey Championships
The 24th World Ice Hockey Championships and 35 Hockey Championship took place until March 5, 1957 in Moscow ( Soviet Union) on 24 February. Venues were the Lenin Sports Palace ( Дворец спорта Центрального стадиона им. Ленина ), Dynamo Stadium, and the Lenin Stadium ( БСА Центрального стадиона им. Ленина ). Due to the use of very large, open football stadiums large audiences were able to watch the games. The last game of the tournament, a new world best for hockey was 50,000 spectators, some sources speak of 55,000, situated.
The first Ice Hockey World Championships on Soviet soil was overshadowed by the boycott of many Western Hockey associations, thus against the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian uprising a few weeks earlier protested. To replenish the reduced field of competitors, hockey teams were invited who were not qualified for the tournament. In addition to Austria included the teams of Japan and the German Democratic Republic, the couple celebrated their world premiere in Moscow. In addition, the sporting value of the tournament, which was characterized by large differences in performance between the participants suffered. The German team could be next to the Japanese, the eligible A-Group teams from Poland and Austria behind. USSR hosts and hot favorites could not benefit from the absence of his toughest competitors from Canada and had at the end of Sweden to defer. The Scandinavians thus secured their second World Cup and eighth European title.
Games
Miloš Vinš ( 18 ) Miroslav Vlach ( 21 ) František Vanek ( 27 ) Karel Gut ( 31 ) Slavomír Bartoňs ( 15 ) Václav Vilém ( 38 ) Slavomír Bartoňs ( 45 ) Jiri Pokorny ( 49, 52 ) Miroslav Vlach ( 54 )
Final Table of the World Cup
Champion teams
Final placement of the European
Awards
Best Scorer
Squad of the German team
Stamp series
- Series of stamps of the USSR, 1957
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