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2008 Bandy World Championship

2008 edition of the Bandy World Championship

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ2637188 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2008 Bandy World Championship for men was played at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia on 27 January–3 February 2008. A record 13 teams competed to be the champions. Russia defeated Sweden in the final.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Final four

The top four teams from Group A went on to a play-off to decide the world champion.

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The public source identifies “2008 Bandy World Championship” as 2008 edition of the Bandy World Championship. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bandy, World and Championship.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bandy, World and Championship providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2008 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.