Ulaanbaatar
Bandy team to compete in Asian Games
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On February 1, Mongolian bandy team returned home after their historic winning of bronze medal at the 2017 Bandy World Championship held in Sweden on January 24-29, and was received by Ts.Sharavjamts, Head of Authority of Physical Culture and Sports of Mongolia.
The Authority of Physical Culture and Sports of Mongolia expressed its support for the bandy team which has brought Mongolia’s first medal from a world championship in team winter sport. The next stop for the bandy team is 2017 Asian Winter Games, which is to be hosted in Sapporo, Japan on February 19-26.
In the preliminary round of the championship, Mongolian team won their matches against Japan (10:2), Hungary (9:5) and Ukraine (9:6), thus making it to play-off. In the quarter-finals, Mongolia played Netherlands to triumph by 6:2; and in the semi-finals, Mongolia lost to Canada by 3:4. In the finals, Mongolia won Japan by 6:5 to win bronze medal.
Mongolian national bandy team competes in ‘B’ division of the world championship alongside 9 other countries including Canada, People’s Republic of China, Czech Republic, Hungary and Japan.
The Mongolian team took 4th place last year in the same division of the championship. The Bandy World Championship has been organized since 1957 and Mongolia has participated 9 times since 2006.
