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Bandy World Championship The Bandy World Championship is a competition between bandy-playing nations' men's teams. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy. It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup, a club competition, and from the Wom ...

2010 was held between 24 and 31 January 2010, in

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. Men's teams from 11 countries participated in the 2010 competition:

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, the

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(group A) and

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and the

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(group B). The tournament was won by

, beating Russia with 6–5 after sudden death. The standing was 5–5 after full-time and the match winning goal was conceived by

Daniel Mossberg Daniel Mossberg (born 19 April 1981) is a Swedish professional bandy midfielder. Career Mossberg has played most of his career for Sandvikens AIK, but has also made a number of seasons in different Russian clubs, Zorky 2006–08 and Dynamo Mo ...

, scoring in the 110th minute. This was Sweden's tenth Championship victory in this the XXIXth Bandy World Championship. Russia won silver medals and Finland won bronze medals. All matches were played in the indoor venue

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in Moscow, Russia.

Participating teams

Division A

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Division B

* * * * * Belarus had qualified for play in this year's Division A during the

2009 Bandy World Championship The Bandy World Championship 2009 was held between 18 and 25 January in Västerås, Sweden. Men's teams from 13 countries participated in the 2009 competition: Belarus, Finland, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia, Sweden (group A) and Canada, Estonia, ...

, but since they did not take part in 2010, the USA, which had lost the qualifier to Belarus in 2009, was promoted to Division A instead.

Squads

Venues

Division A

Preliminary round

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

Final

Division B

Preliminary round

Knockout stage

Fourth place play-off

Second place play-off

Relegation playoffs

The team that finished last in Division A, the

, and the winner in Division B,

, met in a qualifying match for the vacant seat in next year's WC Division A. The match was won by 9–6 by the USA, thus secured another year in Division A.USA National Bandy team
– USA National Bandy Team's World Championship Journey to Moscow

References

Sources

Official website
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