1965 Ice Hockey World Championships
The 1965 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in Tampere, Finland, 3 March – 15 March. Eight teams took part, each playing each other once. The Soviets became world champions for the fifth time, winning all of their games. This also counted as their ninth European title, with the Czechs finishing second and the Swedes third. For the third straight year Canada finished fourth. The tournament employed new tie-breaking rules, which some believed were supposed to be in place for the Innsbruck Olympics. To decide medals priority would be given to the team who won the head-to-head game, unless they tied, or more than two teams were tied. In those two cases goal differential would be used, but only the goal differential between the top four teams.[1]
 A Finnish stamp dedicated to the 1965 World Ice Hockey Championships | |
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country |  |
| Dates | 3–14 March |
| Teams | 8 |
| Final positions | |
Champions  |  |
Runner-up  |  |
Third place  |  |
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 28 |
| Goals scored | 221 (7.89 per match) |
| Attendance | 178,968 (6,392 per match) |
| Scoring leader(s) | |
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Fifteen nations played in two groups, with qualification games used to establish the tier for closely ranked teams. From now on, the last place team in group 'A' would be relegated, with the group 'B' champion being promoted to replace them. Poland went undefeated to earn promotion, defeating the Swiss, and tying the West Germans.
The event was the first Ice Hockey World Championships hosted by Finland, and was organized by Harry Lindblad, president of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association.[2][3]
Qualifying Round Group A
First round
| 18 December 1964 | West Germany  | 2–8 |  |
| 20 December 1964 | West Germany | 7–2 | |
| 3 January 1965 | Switzerland | 6–7 | |
Second round
| 2 March 1965 | Norway  | 5–4 | |
| Qualified for Group A: | |
| Qualified for Group B: | |
World Championship Group A (Tampere, Finland)
| Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 51 | –13 | 14 |
| 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 43 | –10 | 12 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 33 | –17 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 28 | –21 | 8 |
 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 18 | –33 | 6 |
 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 22 | –44 | 4 |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 14 | –27 | 3 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 12 | –56 | 0 |
Norway was relegated to 1966 Group B.
| 4 March | Sweden | 5–2 | |
| 4 March | Soviet Union | 8–4 | |
| 4 March | Czechoslovakia | 5–1 | |
| 5 March | Sweden | 5–1 | |
| 5 March | Finland | 0–4 | |
| 5 March | Norway | 2–14 | |
| 6 March | United States | 0–12 | |
| 6 March | Canada | 6–0 | |
| 7 March | Finland | 2–2 | |
| 7 March | Canada | 5–2 | |
| 7 March | Soviet Union | 8–0 | |
| 8 March | Czechoslovakia | 9–2 | |
| 9 March | Finland | 4–1 | |
| 9 March | East Germany | 7–4 | |
| 10 March | Soviet Union | 5–3 | |
| 10 March | Canada | 8–1 | |
| 10 March | Finland | 2–5 | |
| 11 March | Sweden | 10–0 | |
| 11 March | Czechoslovakia | 8–0 | |
| 11 March | United States | 2–9 | |
| 12 March | United States | 4–0 | |
| 12 March | East Germany | 5–1 | |
| 13 March | Sweden | 6–4 | |
| 13 March | Finland | 2–3 | |
| 13 March | Soviet Union | 3–1 | |
| 14 March | Czechoslovakia | 3–2 | |
| 14 March | Canada | 1–4 | |
| 14 March | United States | 8–6 | |
Qualifying Round Group B
| 19 November 1964 | Italy  | 2–3 |  |
| 26 November 1964 | Hungary | 2–2 | |
| 5 December 1964 | Great Britain  | 8–2 |  |
| 12 December 1964 | France | 3–2 | |
| Qualified for Group B: | |
| Teams in 1966 Group B qualification: | |
World Championship Group B (Turku, Rauma, and Pori, Finland)
| Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 35 | –15 | 11 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 27 | –15 | 9 |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 30 | –20 | 8 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 19 | –24 | 5 |
 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 21 | –28 | 4 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 24 | –41 | 3 |
.svg.png){kind=small} | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 16 | –29 | 2 |
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Poland earned promotion to the 1966 Group A. Romania joined France and Italy in the following year's qualification for Group B.
| 4 March | Switzerland | 7–2 | |
| 4 March | Poland | 9–5 | |
| 4 March | Yugoslavia | 5–5 | |
| 5 March | Poland | 5–3 | |
| 5 March | West Germany | 8–2 | |
| 6 March | Switzerland | 3–1 | |
| 6 March | West Germany | 12–4 | |
| 7 March | Austria | 5–4 | |
| 7 March | Poland | 3–1 | |
| 7 March | Hungary | 3–0 | |
| 8 March | West Germany | 2-1 | |
| 9 March | Switzerland | 3–3 | |
| 9 March | West Germany | 4–4 | |
| 9 March | Poland | 11–2 | |
| 10 March | Austria | 6–5 | |
| 11 March | Hungary | 5-3 | |
| 11 March | Poland | 3–3 | |
| 11 March | Switzerland | 7–4 | |
| 12 March | Poland | 4–1 | |
| 12 March | Switzerland | 6–1 | |
| 12 March | Hungary | 1–5 | |
Ranking and statistics
Tournament Awards
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Final standings
The final standings of the tournament according to IIHF:
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European championships final standings
The final standings of the European championships according to IIHF:
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Citations
- Duplacey, James (1998). Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Total Sports. p. 505. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9.
- "2.75 Harry Lindblad". Legends of Hockey. Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- "Milestones of Finnish Ice Hockey". Leijonat. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1965 IIHF World Championship. |
- Summary (in french)
- Podnieks, Andrew (2010). IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2011. Moydart Press. p. 139.
