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Sweden national ringette team

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Sweden
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Team Sweden
AssociationSweden Ringette Association
(Swedish: Svenska Ringetteförbundet)
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First international
Senior:
Sweden 1992 (Senior)
(Helsinki, Finland; 1992)


Junior:
Sweden 2016 (President's Pool)
(Helsinki, Finland; 2016)
World Ringette Championships
AppearancesJunior: 1
(first in 2016)

Senior: 12 excluding 1998 Summit Series (first in 1992)
Best result
Medal record
World Ringette Championships
Seniors
Senior
1990 Gloucester
No team
Senior
1992 Helsinki
Team
Senior
1994 Saint Paul
Team
Senior
1996 Stockholm
Team
1998 Summit Series
Turku, Gothenburg, Osnabruck, Colmar
No team
Senior
2000 Espoo and Lahti
Team
Senior
2002 Edmonton
Team
Senior
2004 Stockholm
Team
Senior
2007 Ottawa
Team
Senior
2010 Tampere
Team
President's Pool
2013 North Bay
Team
Bronze medal – third place Senior Pool
2016 Helsinki
Team
Bronze medal – third place Junior Pool
2016 Helsinki
Team
Gold medal – first place President's Pool
2017 Helsinki
Team
Gold medal – first place President's Pool
2019 Burnaby
Team
2021 Helsinki Cancelled
Silver medal – second place President's Pool
2022 Espoo
Team
President's Pool
2023 Calgary
Team
World Junior Ringette Championships
Juniors
2009 Prague No team
2012 London No team
World Ringette Championships
Juniors
2013 North Bay No team
2016 Tampere Team
2017 Mississauga No team
2019 Burnaby No team
2021 Helsinki Cancelled
2022 Espoo No team
2023 Calgary

The Sweden national ringette team (Swedish: Sverige ringette landslaget), more commonly known as "Team Sweden", is the ringette team representing Sweden internationally. Sweden has both a senior national ringette team and a junior national ringette team. Both Team Sweden Senior and Team Sweden Junior are overseen by the Sweden Ringette Association (SRA), (Swedish: Svenska Ringetteförbundet) and compete in the World Ringette Championships (WRC). The SRA is a member of the International Ringette Federation (IRF). Sweden's first appearance in international ringette took place at the second World Ringette Championships in 1992. Team USA is Team Sweden's arch-rival with both teams competing in the President's Pool against Team Czech.

Though Sweden joined the IRF in 1986, which at the time was known as the "World Ringette Council", the Sweden Ringette Association was not formed until 1994, then was elected as an associate member of the Swedish Sports Confederation in 2003.[1]

History

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Team Sweden (now Team Sweden Senior) made its international ringette debut in 1992 at the second World Ringette Championships (WRC) in Helsinki, Finland, where the 1992 Sweden team finished in sixth place. At the time there was only one division where athletes could compete and was reserved strictly for women.

While the World Junior Ringette Championships first began in 2009 and occurred again in 2012, Sweden never sent a junior team to compete at either world tournament. The world junior tournament merged with the world championship program for senior teams in 2013 where world titles for a Senior Pool, Junior Pool, and President's Pool were contested. There was an exception in WRC 2016 whereby the Team Sweden Senior competed the Senior Pool and Team Sweden Junior competed in the Junior Pool.

Sweden's first junior national team (U19) was formed in 2016 and competed in the 2016 World Ringette Championships. They did not compete in 2017 and have yet to return to the world stage.

World Championship record

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Senior Sweden

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(Seniors) World Ringette Championships
Year Location Result
1990 Canada Gloucester No team
1992 Finland Helsinki Senior
6th
1994 United States Saint Paul Senior
6th
1996 Sweden Stockholm Senior
4th
1998
"Summit Series"
Void
2000 Finland Espoo and Lahti Senior
4th
2002 Canada Edmonton Senior
4th
2004 Sweden Stockholm Senior
4th
2007 Canada Ottawa Senior
Bronze
2010 Finland Tampere Senior
4th
2013 Canada North Bay 4th
2016 Finland Helsinki Senior Pool
Bronze
Junior Pool
Bronze
2017 Canada Mississauga President's
Gold
2019 Canada Burnaby President's
Gold
2021 Finland Helsinki cancelled
2022 Finland Espoo President's
Silver

Junior Sweden

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(Juniors) World Ringette Championships
Year Location Result
2009 Czech Republic Prague No team
2012 Canada London, Ontario No team
2013 Canada North Bay No team
2016 Finland Helsinki 5th
2017 Canada Mississauga No team
2019 Canada Burnaby No team
2021 Finland Helsinki cancelled
2022 Finland Espoo

Team Sweden Senior

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Team Sweden (Senior) made its world debut at the second World Ringette Championships (WRC) in 1992. The senior team has competed in every WRC with the exception of the world competition's inaugural year in 1990, the 1998 World Ringette Championships which was replaced by a 1998 Summit series between Team Canada and Team Finland, and the 2021 World Ringette Championships when the tournament was cancelled due to Covid-19.

1998 Seniors

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The 1998 World Ringette Championships were initially meant to be held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Instead a promotional five game ringette "Summit Series" tour of Europe was organized with a series of games between a Team Canada, and Team Finland between February 27 and March 7, 1998.[2][3] Team Sweden Senior did not compete that year.

Team Sweden Junior

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Team Sweden Junior (U19) made its first world appearance at the 2016 World Ringette Championships in Helsinki, Finland. However, Sweden has yet to field another junior national team and has not returned to the world stage as of yet.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Historia och organisation - Uppslagsverk - NE.se". www.ne.se (in Swedish).
  2. ^ "1998 Summit Series". International Ringette Federation. 1998. Archived from the original on 29 August 2011.
  3. ^ "World Ringette Championships". ringette.ca. Ringette Canada.
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