1972 World Ice Hockey Championships
The 39th Ice Hockey World Championship ( also the 50th Ice Hockey European Championship) in 1972 was the first pure world championship in an Olympic year. This season there are in the Olympics years with the Olympic tournament and the World Cup two highlights of the season except for the years 1980, 1984 and 1988 in which no World Cup was held.
The World Cup games were held at the following times and in the following locations:
At the World Championships participated in this year 20 teams participate, including for the first time the Chinese.
- 2.1 Games
- 2.2 Final Table B of the World Cup
- 3.1 Games
- 3.2 Final Table C- WM
- 3.3 and losers
A World Championship
This year's championships were held in Prague and brought an interruption of Soviet dominance. After nine consecutive titles, the USSR had to settle for second place in this host. New Title carrier was Czechoslovakia, who won their third World Cup and beyond also won their twelfth title of European Champion. In addition to the home field advantage they may have benefited from the fact that the world championships were held about two months after the Winter Olympics. Could the Soviet team there still triumph superior, so it was not possible for her to maintain this high level until the World Cup tournament. Actually managed until 2006 the Swedish team the first team ever to win both tournaments in a year.
Venue of the tournament was the Sportovní hala ČSTV, which was then offered 14,389 spectators.
First round
Second round
Final Table of the A-WC
Champion teams
European Champion 1972 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Awards
B World Cup
In the B World Championships in Bucharest, the U.S. did not make its chances of promotion. She also suffered two season highlights, after she had won a silver medal at the Olympic tournament after a strong performance, has not yet even the best performance will be obtained when B tournament. France, went up last year in the B group, opted not to participate and therefore directly rose again.
Games
Final Table B of the World Cup
C World Cup
The tournament of the C group was Miercurea Ciuc in Romania discharged.
Games
Final Table C- WM
Order due to the direct comparisons ( China 4:3,3:3, 3:4,6:2 Bulgaria, Hungary 3:3,2:6 ) , The direct comparison chooses Denmark ( 4:2 )
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