Norway national bandy team ( no, Norges herrelandslag i bandy) represents

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

in the sport of bandy. The country has both a men's national team and a women's national team. This article deals chiefly with the men's national team. Norway, Finland and Sweden played bandy at the Winter Olympics in Oslo in 1952. After having seen them there, the Soviet Union invited these three countries to a

four nation bandy tournament in 1954 Four nation bandy tournament in 1954 was a tournament of friendlies played in Moscow, Soviet Union, in February 1954, contested by Finland, Norway, the Soviet Union and Sweden. Sweden won the tournament. The Soviet Union invited the other three cou ...

. This was the first time a Soviet national bandy team met other national bandy teams. The four countries used somewhat different rules prior to this tournament, but the rules were adjusted to be the same for the future. Norway has been competing in the

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 W ...

since the second tournament in

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. Norway finished in second place in 1965 and in third place

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. Norway's best result in the Russian Government Cup is a second place in 1994.

World Championship record

Current squad

Norwegian squad at the 2014 World Championship in Irkutsk,

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, January 26 – February 2, 2014.

References

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