Medal Table

We present four tables, two of them (one long-term and one short-term) are based on the number of medals and next two tables (one long-term and one short-term) are based on the number of points.

On the photo you can see Frank Fredrickson, the captain of the first ever Olympic Champions – Canada. Canada was represented by the Winnipeg Falcons in the Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium (1920). This tournament was later, in 1982, pronounced by the IIHF as the first Ice Hockey World Championship.

IIHF Medal Table

Till this day, we have seen 76 Ice Hockey World Championships. The first gold medal was won by the Canada (as mentioned above).

The medal table (as of 2012) is

Position	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	Russia / Soviet Union	26	9	7
	— Russia	4	2	2
	— Soviet Union	22	7	5
2	Canada	24	13	9
3	Czech Republic / Czechoslovakia	12	13	21
	— Czech Republic	6	1	5
	— Czechoslovakia	6	12	16
4	Sweden	8	19	16
5	USA	2	9	5
6	Finland	2	6	3
7	Great Britain	1	2	2
8	Slovakia	1	2	1
9	Germany	0	2	2
	— Germany	0	1	2
	— West Germany	0	1	0
10	Switzerland	0	1	8
11	Austria	0	0	2

IIHF recognized Russia as a successor of the Soviet Union and Czech Republic as a successor of the Czechoslovakia.

IIHF Medal Table for Past 15 Years

If we take into account only past 15 years we get different results. The leading team is now the Czech Republic and we can see that only seven team were able to get some of the medals.

Position	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	Czech Republic	5	1	3
2	Canada	3	3	0
3	Russia	3	2	2
4	Sweden	2	3	5
5	Finland	1	4	3
6	Slovakia	1	2	1
7	USA	0	0	1

Alternative Medal Table

As we have seen in the first table, Russia is the leading country in the Medal Table. In the next table, we give 3 points for the gold medal, 2 points for the silver medal and 1 point for the bronze medal. We can see two changes:

• Canada is the leader instead of Russia.
• Switzerland moved to the seventh place (thanks to 8 points for the bronze medals).

Position	Country	Points
1	Canada	107
2	Russia / Soviet Union	103
	— Russia	18
	— Soviet Union	85
3	Czech Republic / Czechoslovakia	83
	— Czech Republic	25
	— Czechoslovakia	58
4	Sweden	78
5	USA	29
6	Finland	21
7	Switzerland	10
8	Great Britain	9
9	Slovakia	8
10	Germany	6
	— Germany	4
	— West Germany	2
11	Austria	2

Alternative Medal Table for Past 15 Years

As for the medal table, we take into account only last 15 years. Again, we give 3 points for the gold medal, 2 points for the silver medal and 1 point for the bronze medal.

The leading team in the past 15 year is the Czech Republic, same as in the medal table for the past 15 years.

Position	Country	Points
1	Czech Republic	20
2	Sweden	17
3	Canada	15
4	Russia	15
5	Finland	14
6	Slovakia	8
7	USA	1