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Sign in to saveBandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. Bandy is sometimes considered the predecessor of ice hockey, both sports belonging to a family of sports called hockey.
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Bandy is a winter team sport played on ice skates where players use sticks to hit a ball into the opposing team's goal, similar in concept to ice hockey. The sport is historically significant because it is sometimes regarded as an early predecessor to modern ice hockey, and both sports belong to the broader hockey family.
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Key facts
- Sport.name
- Bandy
- Sport.image
- Kareby IS-AIK, 13 mars 2015 32.jpg
- Sport.caption
- Swedish Championship, Women's final, 2015
- Sport.union
- Federation of International Bandy (FIB)
- Sport.nickname
- Hockey on the ice, Winter football
- Sport.mgender
- No, separate competitions
- Sport.first
- England
- Sport.contact
- Limited(Shouldering allowed but body checking illegal)
- Sport.team
- 11 field players
- Sport.olympic
- - Demonstration 1952 - (recognized as a sport by the IOC in 2001)
- Sport.paralympic
- No
- Sport.IWGA
- No
Article
89 sectionsContents
- History
- Background
- Early days
- 19th Century: the sport is formalised
- First national bandy league
- Bandy in the Nordic Games
- Bandy at the Winter Spartakiad
- Bandy at the 1952 Olympics
- Etymology
- Historical relationship with other sports
- Bandy and association football
- Bandy and ice hockey
- Modern development
- World Championships and Russian performance
- Women's bandy
- Highest altitude
- Bandy moving indoors
- Overview
- Rules
- Players
- Formation
- Duration and tie-breaking measures
- Ball in and out of play
- Free-strokes and penalty shots
- Warnings and penalties
- Offside
- Equipment
- Bandy ball
- Bandy stick
- Bandy field
- Protective equipment
- International
- International games in the early years
- Nordic Games
- International federation
- World Championships
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Olympic Movement
- Asian Winter Games
- Winter Universiade/Winter World University Games
- World Cup
- Men
- Women
- European Cup
- 4 Nations Tournament
- Rossiya Tournament (Russian Government Cup)
- European Bandy Championship
- Overview of international competitions
- Senior
- Junior
- Variants of bandy and sports developed from bandy
- 7-a-side bandy
- Rink bandy
- Short bandy
- Rinkball
- Floorball
- Landbandy
- No roller or parasport variants exist
- Countries
- Canada
- China
- Czechia
- Estonia
- Finland
- Germany
- India
- Kazakhstan
- Mongolia
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Norwegian Championship
- Russia
- Russian Championship
- Russian Cup
- Sweden
- Swedish Championship
- Svenska Cupen (The Swedish Cup)
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Playing surfaces
- National bandy federations
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. Bandy is sometimes considered the predecessor of ice hockey, both sports belonging to a family of sports called hockey.
The playing surface, called a bandy field or bandy rink, is a sheet of ice which measures by , about the size of a football pitch. The field is considerably larger than the ice rinks commonly used for ice hockey.