Soviet national bandy team
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The Soviet national bandy team dominated the then biennial (from 1961) World Championships
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from its start in 1957 until the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, winning the first eleven championships and winning all but three championships that they competed in. Its place in the championship was then taken over by Russia
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Bandy World Championships
The Bandy World Championships are a competition between bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy....
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Bandy
Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...
from its start in 1957 until the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, winning the first eleven championships and winning all but three championships that they competed in. Its place in the championship was then taken over by Russia
Russian national bandy team
The Russian national bandy team has managed to win the Bandy World Championships six times, in 1999, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011.In 2010, the Russian team defeated Kazakhstan in the championship opener 14-0....
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