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Wiipurin Sudet Finnish Champions 2021 Wiipurin Sudet has won the women’s Finnish Bandy Championship for the 8th consecutive time. The team beat Botnia 6-1 in the final game played on Sunday March 7th. Sudet beat Vastus in the semifinal 21-0 and Botnia beat...
Chris Middlebrook, President of US Bandy and member of FIB Olympic Committee has in a particularly exciting and interesting article compared the costs of establishing bandy as a part of the Olympic family with some of the current Olympic winter sports. The reader also...
Per Hellmyrs was born in 1983, in the heart of Swedish Bandy country, in the County of Gävleborg, the municipality of Ovanåker in a city by the name of Edsbyn. Edsbyn has a population of almost 4000 people. Its small size has not, however, kept Edsbyn from being one...
This Monday, February 22, we celebrate the FIB General Secretary Mr Bo Nyman on his 75th birthday! Bo Nyman has worked as General Secretary since 2007. But he has been involved in the sport of bandy a long time before that. The club in his heart since many years is...
The sport of bandy wants to take place in the Winter Olympics. Many fans all over the world thinks it is time for that. Bandy is the world’s second largest winter sport after icehockey – in terms of number of participants. But as early as 1952, when the...
THE BACKGROUND The background for the Winter Games in Oslo 1952 was quite peculiar. It was not an expressed wish from the various Norwegian winter sports federations to arrange these Games, but it was purely a political idea from the beginning and through to the final...
On February 12, 1955 the International Bandy Federation was formed in connection with the first congress in Stockholm, Sweden. The founders were the four nations Sweden, Norway, USSR and Finland. The name was “International Bandy Federation” until the 2001...
Chris Middlebrook – the legendary bandy profile from the USA has written this exciting article about Bandy and Olympics. It is addressed to the American reader and public, but it gives readers around the World interesting perspective on Bandy and the...
The games in the four biggest leagues in the world are now in full swing. Therefore, it feels natural to make an update on the current situation in the top series in Russia, Sweden, Finland and Norway when a couple of weeks remain of the strange year 2020. DYNAMO...