Sweden national ringette team

Medal record
World Ringette Championships
Seniors
World Junior Ringette Championships
Juniors
World Ringette Championships
Juniors

Sweden
Nickname(s)	Team Sweden
Association	Sweden Ringette Association; (Swedish: Svenska Ringetteförbundet)
Team colors
Home colours	Away colours
First international
	Senior:; 1992 (Senior); (Helsinki, Finland; 1992) ; Junior:; 2016 (President's Pool); (Helsinki, Finland; 2016)
World Ringette Championships
Appearances	Junior: 1; (first in 2016); ; Senior: 12 excluding 1998 Summit Series (first in 1992)
Best result	Senior:; Senior Pool; 3rd; 2007, 2016; President's Pool; 1st; 2017, 2019; ; Junior:; President's Pool; 5th; 2016;

The Sweden national ringette team (Swedish: Sverige ringette landslaget), more commonly known as "Team Sweden", is the ringette team representing Sweden internationally. Sweden has both a senior national ringette team and a junior national ringette team. Both Team Sweden Senior and Team Sweden Junior are overseen by the Sweden Ringette Association (SRA), (Swedish: Svenska Ringetteförbundet) and compete in the World Ringette Championships (WRC). The SRA is a member of the International Ringette Federation (IRF). Sweden's first appearance in international ringette took place at the second World Ringette Championships in 1992. Team USA is Team Sweden's arch-rival with both teams competing in the President's Pool against Team Czech.

Though Sweden joined the IRF in 1986, which at the time was known as the "World Ringette Council", the Sweden Ringette Association was not formed until 1994, then was elected as an associate member of the Swedish Sports Confederation in 2003.^[1]

History edit

Team Sweden (now Team Sweden Senior) made its international ringette debut in 1992 at the second World Ringette Championships (WRC) in Helsinki, Finland, where the 1992 Sweden team finished in sixth place. At the time there was only one division where athletes could compete and was reserved strictly for women.

While the World Junior Ringette Championships first began in 2009 and occurred again in 2012, Sweden never sent a junior team to compete at either world tournament. The world junior tournament merged with the world championship program for senior teams in 2013 where world titles for a Senior Pool, Junior Pool, and President's Pool were contested. There was an exception in WRC 2016 whereby the Team Sweden Senior competed the Senior Pool and Team Sweden Junior competed in the Junior Pool.

Sweden's first junior national team (U19) was formed in 2016 and competed in the 2016 World Ringette Championships. They did not compete in 2017 and have yet to return to the world stage.

World Championship record edit

Senior Sweden edit

(Seniors) World Ringette Championships
Year	Location	Result
1990	Gloucester	No team
1992	Helsinki	Senior 6th
1994	Saint Paul	Senior 6th
1996	Stockholm	Senior 4th
1998 "Summit Series"	Void
2000	Espoo and Lahti	Senior 4th
2002	Edmonton	Senior 4th
2004	Stockholm	Senior 4th
2007	Ottawa	Senior Bronze
2010	Tampere	Senior 4th
2013	North Bay	4th
2016	Helsinki	Senior Pool Bronze Junior Pool Bronze
2017	Mississauga	President's Gold
2019	Burnaby	President's Gold
2021	Helsinki	cancelled
2022	Espoo	President's Silver

Junior Sweden edit

(Juniors) World Ringette Championships
Year	Location	Result
2009	Prague	No team
2012	London, Ontario	No team
2013	North Bay	No team
2016	Helsinki	5th
2017	Mississauga	No team
2019	Burnaby	No team
2021	Helsinki	cancelled
2022	Espoo

Team Sweden Senior edit

Team Sweden (Senior) made its world debut at the second World Ringette Championships (WRC) in 1992. The senior team has competed in every WRC with the exception of the world competition's inaugural year in 1990, the 1998 World Ringette Championships which was replaced by a 1998 Summit series between Team Canada and Team Finland, and the 2021 World Ringette Championships when the tournament was cancelled due to Covid-19.

1998 Seniors edit

The 1998 World Ringette Championships were initially meant to be held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Instead a promotional five game ringette "Summit Series" tour of Europe was organized with a series of games between a Team Canada, and Team Finland between February 27 and March 7, 1998.^[2]^[3] Team Sweden Senior did not compete that year.

Team Sweden Junior edit

Team Sweden Junior (U19) made its first world appearance at the 2016 World Ringette Championships in Helsinki, Finland. However, Sweden has yet to field another junior national team and has not returned to the world stage as of yet.

References edit

^ "Historia och organisation - Uppslagsverk - NE.se". www.ne.se (in Swedish).
^ "1998 Summit Series". International Ringette Federation. 1998. Archived from the original on 29 August 2011.
^ "World Ringette Championships". ringette.ca. Ringette Canada.

[1] "Historia och organisation - Uppslagsverk - NE.se". www.ne.se (in Swedish).

[2] "1998 Summit Series". International Ringette Federation. 1998. Archived from the original on 29 August 2011.

[3] "World Ringette Championships". ringette.ca. Ringette Canada.

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