British ice hockey team – Wikipedia

The British ice hockey national team represents the ice hockey association of the United Kingdom ICE Hockey UK on an international level. After the 2020 World Cup, the men’s team will take 19th place in the IIHF world rankings. So far, the country has ever been the Olympic champion and world champion and four European champions.

Great Britain was one of the strongest ice hockey nationals worldwide in the first five decades of the 20th century. Especially at European level, the national team was able to achieve some successes. However, the country’s ice hockey championship was able to win the country straight away from the competition from Germany, Belgium and Switzerland in its first edition in 1910, but no longer took part in the following independent EM tournaments. Between 1924 and 1948, the Great Britain national team took part in a total of four Olympic ice hockey tournaments. Only the participation in the 1932 Winter Olympics, like many other European countries, did you do without cost reasons.

The British ice hockey team achieved its greatest success and one of the greatest success in ice hockey history when she won the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Since this was also seen as a World Cup and European Championship and the British led the ranking lists after the games against non-European teams, they became Olympic champions and world and European champions in one. Only the Soviet Union could then repeat this success. Previously, the national team had an Olympic bronze medal and the bronze medal of the World Cup in 1924 and finished third in the European Ice Hockey Championship in 1928. Until 1950, Great Britain won numerous other medals at the international level, including the European championship titles in 1937 and 1938 as the best European team at the World Cup.

Overall, Great Britain won a gold and bronze medal at the Olympic Games, a gold medal at World Championships as well as two silver and bronze medals and four gold and two silver medals at European Championships as well as bronze medal.

Since the 1950s, Great Britain in ice hockey has no longer been able to build on the successes of the first half of the 20th century. It lasted from 1962 to 1994 (32 years) for the national team again in the top division of the Ice Hockey World Championship, but the direct relegation followed. The national team then played for a long time in Division I (A or B) before 2018 (after another 25 years) with first place in the Division IA succeeded in returning to the top division.

The British national team has been regularly participating in the Euro Ice Hockey Challenge since the 2000s.

At the Olympic Games [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

• 1920 – not participated
• 1924 – Bronze medal
• 1928 – 4th place
• 1932 – not participated
• 1936 – gold medal
• since 1948 – not participated or not qualified

At the European Championships [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

• 1910 – gold medal
• 1911 to 1925 – not participated
• 1926 – 4th place
• 1927 – not participated
• 1929 – not participated
• 1932 – 7th place
• 1936 – gold medal

At the World Championships [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Italics : Tournament was played as part of the Olympic Games.

Placements of the British ice hockey national team at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships

Medals	player
Gold / Olympic champion United Kingdom Great Britain	Alexander Archer, James Borland, Edgar Brenchley, James Chappell, John Coward, Gordon Dailley, Gerry Davey, Carl Erhardt, Jimmy Foster, Jack Kilpatrick, Archibald Stinchcombe, Robert Wyman