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1991 Bandy World Championship

1991 edition of the Bandy World Championship

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ806402 ↗
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The 1991 Bandy World Championship was contested by eight men's bandy playing nations in Finland from 17 to 24 March 1991. Canada, Hungary and the Netherlands made their championship debuts. The Soviet Union became champions in what would be its last tournament; less than a year later, the Soviet Union was dissolved and was briefly replaced in international bandy by the Commonwealth of Independent States, and then permanently by Russia. The final game was played at Oulunkylä Ice Rink in Helsinki.

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The public source identifies “1991 Bandy World Championship” as 1991 edition of the Bandy World Championship. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bandy, World and Championship.

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This entry incorporates text from “1991 Bandy World Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.