Ice hockey at the Olympic Games
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Ice hockey tournaments have been competed at the Olympic Games since the 1920 Summer Olympics. The sport moved to the Winter Olympic Games program for the first Winter Games in 1924. A women's ice hockey tournament was added to the Olympic program for the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Between 1920 and 1968, the Olympic hockey tournament was also considered the Ice Hockey World Championships for that year.
Men's tournament
Medalists
Medal table
| Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Medals | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Canada | 7 | 4 | 2 | 13 | |||||||||||
USSR¹ (1956-88) | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||||
United States | 2 | 7 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||||
| Sweden | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |||||||||||
Czech Republic² (1994-) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Summer}}} Olympics of CIS¹ (1992) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
Czechoslovakia² (1920-1992) | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||||||||||
Finland | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Germany³ (1924-36, 52-64, 92–) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
West Germany³ (1968-88) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
¹ After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Unified Team, comprised of athletes of six nations (ex-Soviet Republics) of the Commonwealth of Independent States, competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics. The hockey team won the gold medal with a team of mostly Russian players, but also some from other nations. By 1994, Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine had their own national teams, but only Russia qualified for the Olympics. Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus qualified for the 1998 games; Russia, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine qualifed for the 2002 games; and Russia, Kazakhstan and Latvia competed in 2006. If the EUN and RUS teams are considered as successors to the Soviet national ice hockey team, then this team has a combined total of 8 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.
² Czechoslovakia competed in every Olympic ice hockey tournament from 1920 to 1992, except for 1932. After the country peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, both nations sent teams to the Olympic games from 1994 onwards. The Czech national ice hockey team won gold in 1998 and bronze in 2006, but the Slovak national ice hockey team has yet to win a medal.
³ Germany won the bronze medal in the 1932 tournament, when the nation was still united. In 1976, the team from West Germany won the bronze medal but the team from East Germany did not qualify for the games.
Women's tournament
Medalists
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1998 Nagano |
United States |
Canada |
Finland |
| 2002 Salt Lake City |
Canada |
United States | Sweden |
| 2006 Turin |
Canada | Sweden |
United States |
Medal table
| Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Medals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Canada | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
References
- Müller, Stephan : International Ice Hockey Encyclopedia 1904-2005 / BoD GmbH Norderstedt, 2005 ISBN 3-8334-4189-5
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