1953 Ice Hockey World Championships

1953 edition of the IIHF World Ice Hockey Championship 1953 Switzerland 7–15 March 4 ih Sweden 1 West Germany Switzerland Italy 6 64 53,000 1952 1954 The 1953 Ice Hockey World Championships were the 20th World Championships and the 31st European Championships in ice hockey. The tournament took place between March 7 and March 15, 1953, in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland. Sweden won their first World Championship title and their seventh European Championship title. This was the first world championship tournament with only European teams; on January 12, 1953, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president W. B. George stated Canada would not be sending a team to the 1953 World Championships. He told the press: "Every year we spend C$10,000 to send a Canadian hockey team to Europe to play 40 exhibition games. All these games are played to packed houses that only enrich European hockey coffers. In return we are subjected to constant, unnecessary abuse over our Canadian style of play".http://www.legendsofhockey.net/IZone/izone.world.hockey.games.summary.do;jsessionid=A8CE1D145764232D3B3D8216AC438512?tour=WEC&division=MA&yr=1953 1953 Men's World Hockey Championships 2013 Legends of Hockey Hockey Hall of Fame January 30, 2021http://www.hockeycentral.co.uk/nhl/othleag/Leagues-Senior-Hockey-pt2.php Senior Hockey and the Allan Cup – Part 2 Hockey Central January 30, 2021Duplacey P. 503 Also absent were the Soviet Union; it was hoped that the USSR would participate but they did not, but they sent observers, including coach Anatoli Tarasov, to scout the tournament. It is believed that injuries to their star players, including Vsevolod Bobrov, was the reason behind the decision. Czechoslovakia were withdrawn from the tournament by General František Janda, the Chairman of the State Committee for the Physical Education and Sport, who ordered the team home when it became obvious their President, Klement Gottwald, was going to die from pneumonia he contracted at Stalin's funeral. Gottwald died the next day, March 14, 1953; subsequently, the team was disqualified, with their results being deleted from the records and their remaining games cancelled. World Championships Group A (Switzerland) Date Matches A World Championships 1953 Result Period. 7 March TCH vs. FRG 11–2 (annulled) 4–1, 5–0, 2–1 7 March SUI vs. SWE 2–9 1–2, 1–5, 0–2 8 March SUI vs. TCH 4–9 (annulled) 0–4, 1–2, 3–3 8 March SWE vs. FRG 8–6 4–1, 3–3, 1–2 10 March SWE vs. TCH 5–3 (annulled) 5–1, 0–1, 0–1 10 March FRG vs. SUI 2–3 0–1, 2–1, 0–1 12 March SWE vs. SUI 9–1 5–1, 1–0, 3–0 12 March FRG vs. TCH 4–9 (annulled) 2–4, 1–2, 1–3 13 March TCH vs. SUI Cancelled 13 March FRG vs. SWE 2–12 0–2, 1–5, 1–5 15 March TCH vs. SWE Cancelled 15 March SUI vs. FRG 3–7 2–4, 0–1, 1–2 Table main WDL 2 SWE SWE FRG FRG SUI SUI TCH NC TCH 4 0 0 38 11 1 3 0 17 26 1 3 0 9 27 0 0 0 0 0 gold 1ST silver 2ND #cc9966 3RD complete World Championships Group B (Switzerland) Also participating was a Swiss 'B' team who (if their games counted) would have finished third.Summary Date Matches B World Championships 1953 Result Period. 7 March ITA vs. AUT 9–5 3–1, 4–3, 2–1 7 March SUI B vs. GBR 1–3 1–0, 0–1, 0–2 8 March AUT vs. NED 5–3 2–0, 2–3, 1–0 8 March SUI B vs. FRA 7–1 4–1, 1–0, 2–0 10 March GBR vs. NED 8–4 4–2, 1–2, 3–0 10 March SUI B vs. ITA 1–2 1–0, 0–0, 0–2 11 March AUT vs. FRA 8–1 2–1, 2–0, 4–0 11 March ITA vs. NED 7–0 4–0, 1–0, 2–0 12 March GBR vs. FRA 8–3 3–0, 3–1, 2–2 13 March GBR vs. AUT 3–0 1–0, 1–0, 1–0 13 March SUI B vs. NLD 7–5 1–1, 5–2, 1–2 14 March ITA vs. FRA 5–2 2–1, 1–0, 2–1 14 March SUI B vs. AUT 8–2 2–0, 1–1, 5–1 15 March NED vs. FRA 8–3 4–1, 2–1, 2–1 15 March ITA vs. GBR 3–2 3–0, 0–0, 0–2 Table main WDL 2 ITA 4 ITA GBR 5 GBR SUIB NC SUI B AUT 6 AUT NED 7 NED FRA 8 FRA 5 0 0 26 10 4 0 1 24 11 3 0 2 24 13 2 0 3 20 24 1 0 4 20 30 0 0 5 10 36 #ccffcc A A A A A A complete Citations References Complete results Duplacey James Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League 1998 Total Sports 0-8362-7114-9 498–528 registration https://archive.org/details/totalhockeyoffic0000unse/page/498 Podnieks Andrew IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011 2010 Moydart Press 133–134 Men's World Championships Category:IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Switzerland Category:1952–53 in Swiss ice hockey Category:March 1953 sports events in Europe Category:20th century in Zurich Category:Sports competitions in Basel Category:Sports competitions in Zurich Category:20th century in Basel