Hockey World championship history: Russia vs Canada

  The Russian national hockey team became the world champion the second year in a row, beating Canada 2:1 in 2009.

Despite the fact that the representatives of two most well-known hockey schools earlier in total six times took two first places in the World championships (in 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1989 and 2008), that tournament was spent to different years under different formulas, the final met participation of Russian national teams and Canada only once in the history. Last year Russians in overtime have beaten ancestors of hockey in Canada, Quebec with the score 5:4.

   Meetings of the modular USSR and Canada in the World championships in 1954 had actually final status, 1955 and 1957 as they had on last round medal around and on a game in these matches stood gold awards. Hockey players of Soviet Union have won one such match (7:2 - 1954), Canadians - two (5:0 - 1955, 4:2 - 1958).

   Taking into account successes in the World championships of a national team of the USSR Russia has come out on top again by quantity of the won medals. The victory in Bern became for domestic hockey players the 25th (the USSR - 22, Russia - 3), Canada has 24 wins. Thus it is not necessary to forget that Canadians have won 15 titles between 1920 and 1954 years - before occurrence of international scene of a command with the Soviet Union. On the other hand, Canada ignored world superiority in 1947, 1953, 1957, 1970-76 (the national team of the USSR five times celebrated a victory these years).

Here the numbers of metals hold by each country:

USSR/Russia - 25 gold, 8 silver, 7 bronze medals (only 40),

Canada - 24, 13, 9 (46),

Czechoslovakia/Chehia - 11, 13, 19 (43);

Sweden - 8, 18, 15 (41);

THE USA - 2, 9, 5 (16);

Finland - 1, 6, 3 (10);

Great Britain - 1, 2, 2 (5);

Slovakia - 1, 1, 1 (3);

FRG/Germany - 0, 2, 2 (4);

Switzerland - 0, 1, 8 (9);

Austria - 0, 0, 2 (2).