Great Britain men's national ice hockey team

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The British national ice hockey team representing the British Ice Hockey Association Ice Hockey UK at international level. The men's team is led by the World Cup 2013 in the IIHF World Ranking at number 22. The country has so far each one -time Olympic champion and world champion and four -time European champion.

History

Great Britain was one of the first five decades of the 20th century the strongest National Hockey world. Notably at the European level could achieve some success the national team. The Hockey Championships to win the country in its first edition in 1910 immediately before the competition from Germany, Belgium and Switzerland, no longer participated in the following standalone EM tournaments however. Between 1924 and 1948, the national Britain participated in a total of four Olympic hockey tournaments. Only the participation in the 1932 Olympics renounced you, like many other European countries for reasons of cost.

Your greatest success and one of the greatest achievements in the history of hockey ever reached the British national ice hockey team when they won the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. As this was considered at the same time as World Cup and European Championship and the British even after disconnecting the Games against non-European teams each led the rankings, they were Olympic champions, as well as world and European champions in one. This success could then repeat the Soviet Union. Previously, the national team in 1924 an Olympic bronze medal and also the bronze medal in the world championship in 1928 and third in the Hockey Championship. By 1950, Britain won numerous other medals at international level, including the European title in 1937 and 1938 as the best European team at the World Cup.

Overall, Great Britain won in the Olympics, a gold and a bronze medal at the World Championships, a gold medal and two silver and bronze medals at the European Championships and four gold and two silver medals and a bronze medal.

Since the 1950s, Britain was no longer able to build on the successes of the first half of the 20th century in hockey. It lasted from 1962 to 1994 32 years until the national back in the top division took the Ice Hockey World Championship, but was followed by the direct re- descent and has since then played the national team in the Division I (formerly B -WM).

Since the 2000s, the British national team regularly participates in the Euro Ice Hockey Challenge.

Placements

At the Olympic Games

At the European Championships

At the World Championships

British Olympic champion in 1936

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