Belarus national bandy team

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Belarus
AssociationBelarusian Bandy Federation
Head coachBelarus Sergey Chernyetskiy
Team colors   
First international
Belarus Belarus 0 – 23 Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
Haparanda, 24 March 2001
Biggest win
Belarus Belarus 21 – 4 Estonia Estonia
Arkhangelsk, 24 March 2003
Biggest defeat
Norway Norway 32 – 0 Belarus Belarus
Haparanda, 29 March 2001
Bandy World Championship
Appearances15 (first in 2001)
Best result6th (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016)

The Belarusian national bandy team has been competing in the annual Bandy World Championship since 2001 (it started to be an annual tournament from 2003), but not in 2010, 2018 and 2019. The plan was to participate also in 2018, but Federation of International Bandy seemingly was not interested in letting Belarus play.[1] In 2004, Belarus defeated Canada to win the Group B championship.[2] Belarus played in Group A in 2006, 2007 and again in 2008 after winning 9-1 against USA team, the best team of Group B.

Their participation in the rink bandy tournament of the first CIS festival for national sports and games in 2017, Фестиваль национальных видов спорта и игр государств — участников Содружества Независимых Государств, resulted in a fourth place finish.[3]

The national team is supervised by the Belarusian Bandy Federation, a member of the Federation of International Bandy.

Squads[edit]

2015 WCS[edit]

Belarusian squad at the 2015 World Championship in Khabarovsk, Russia.[4]

Pos. Birth Name Club
1987 Sergey Krivonogov Russia Start
1975 Yuriy Styopochkin Russia Znamya-Udmurtiya
1974 Yevgeniy Sviridov Belarus
1986 Mikhail Tarasenko Belarus HK Polotsk
1978 Yuriy Zenkov Belarus HK Brest
1979 Andrey Kabanov Russia Lokomotiv
1981 Mikhail Pashnev Belarus HK Polotsk
1976 Maxim Koshelev Belarus Traktor Minsk
1990 Alexandr Kozlov Russia Lokomotiv
1979 Sergey Chernyetskiy Belarus
1977 Konstantin Savyenko Belarus
1981 Viktor Plyats Belarus HK Polotsk
1984 Sergey Fyalko Belarus HK Polotsk
1984 Daniil Garnitskiy Russia HK Polotsk
1975 Yevgeniy Khvalko Russia Yenisey
1978 Vyacheslav Brachenko Russia Vostok
1980 Sergey Yusupov Russia Zenith
1993 Alexandr Baranov

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Google Translate".
  2. ^ Prest, Ashley (2005). "Canada's bandy team wins silver" (PDF). Winnipeg Free Press. FP Canadian Newspapers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
  3. ^ "I Фестиваль НВСиИ стран СНГ - 2017 - Соревнования - Федерация хоккея с мячом России".
  4. ^ "Group A | XXXV Чемпионат мира по хоккею с мячом". 2015 Bandy World Championship Official Homepage. Retrieved 15 September 2015.

External links[edit]

Team picture