FIRS Roller Hockey World Cup

Rink Hockey World Championship
Founded 1936
Governing body Comité Internationale de Rink Hockey (CIRH)
Website CIRH
No. of teams 16 (final round)
Current champion Spain (15th title)
Most successful team

Spain (15 titles)

Portugal (15 titles)
San Juan 2011

The FIRS Roller Hockey World Cup is a roller hockey competition also referred as the World Championship – A between the best male national teams in the World. It happens every two years and it is organized by FIRS.

Contents

A Class Championship and B Class championship

Roller Hockey has 2 World Championships: an A Championship and a B championship. The Group A contains the 16 best world teams, as the Group B contains 16 nations of inferior level. Each Championship happens every two years in alternate years; for example A Championship was in 2009, so B Championship will be in 2010. The first three-placed nations on the B championship are granted an entry to next year's A championship and the 3 worst-placed teams on the A are relegated to the B championship. The most recent B World Cup was the 2010 Rink Hockey Men's B World Championship in Dornbirn, Austria.

Winners

Championship A

European and World Championship
Year Host city (cities) Gold Silver Bronze 4th Place
1936 Stuttgart England  Italy Portugal  Switzerland
1939 Montreux England  Italy Portugal  Belgium
1947 Lisbon Portugal  Belgium  Spain  Italy
1948 Montreux Portugal England  Italy  Spain
1949 Lisbon Portugal  Spain  Italy  Belgium
1950 Milan Portugal  Italy  Switzerland  Spain
1951 Barcelona  Spain Portugal  Italy  Belgium
1952 Porto Portugal  Italy  Spain  Belgium
1953 Geneva  Italy Portugal  Spain  Switzerland
1954 Barcelona  Spain Portugal  Italy  Belgium
1955 Milan  Spain  Italy Portugal  Switzerland
1956 Porto Portugal  Spain  Italy  West Germany
World Championship
Year Host city (cities) Gold Silver Bronze 4th Place
1958 Porto Portugal  Spain  Italy  Netherlands
1960 Madrid Portugal  Spain  Argentina  Italy
1962 Santiago Portugal  Italy  Spain  Switzerland
1964 Barcelona  Spain Portugal  Italy  Argentina
1966 São Paulo  Spain Portugal  Argentina  Italy
1968 Porto Portugal  Spain  Argentina  Italy
1970 San Juan  Spain Portugal  Italy  Argentina
1972 A Coruña  Spain Portugal  Argentina  West Germany
1974 Lisbon Portugal  ESP Spain  Argentina  West Germany
1976 Oviedo Spain  Argentina Portugal  West Germany
1978 San Juan  Argentina Spain Portugal  West Germany
1980 Talcahuano Spain  Argentina Portugal  Chile
1982 Barcelos Portugal Spain  Argentina  Chile
1984 Novara  Argentina Spain Portugal  Italy
1986 Sertãozinho  Italy Spain Portugal  Argentina
1988 A Coruña  Italy Spain Portugal  Argentina
1990 San Juan Spain Portugal  Italy  Chile
1991 Porto Portugal  Netherlands  Argentina  Brazil
1993 Bassano d.G., Lodi and Sesto S.G. Portugal  Italy  Argentina Spain
1995 Recife  Argentina Portugal Spain  Brazil
1997 Wuppertal  Italy  Argentina Spain Portugal
1999 Reus  Argentina Spain Portugal  Italy
2001 San Juan Spain  Argentina  Italy Portugal
2003 Oliveira de Azeméis Portugal  Italy Spain  Argentina
2005 San Jose Spain  Argentina Portugal  Italy
2007 Montreux Spain  Switzerland  Argentina  Italy
2009 Vigo Spain  Argentina Portugal Brazil
2011 San Juan Spain  Argentina Portugal Mozambique
2013 Luanda

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Spain 15 12 7 34
2 Portugal 15 9 13 37
3 Italy 4 8 10 22
4 Argentina 4 7 9 20
5 England 2 1 0 3
6 Switzerland 0 1 1 2
7  Belgium 0 1 0 1
7 Netherlands 0 1 0 1

Championship B

Year Host city (cities) Gold Silver Bronze 4th Place
1984 Paris France Belgium England Angola
1986 Mexico City Germany Netherlands Mozambique Australia
1988 Colombia Colombia Switzerland Chile Australia
1990 Macau Brazil Switzerland Australia England
1992 Andorra Andorra France Mozambique Angola
1994 Chile France Angola Chile Colombia
1996 Mexico City United States Netherlands Colombia Andorra
1998 Macau Chile England Mozambique Andorra
2000 Chatham England Netherlands Canada Uruguay
2002 Montevideo Andorra Colombia England Uruguay
2004 Macau Catalonia[1] England Andorra Macau
2006 Montevideo Mozambique Netherlands Colombia Macau
2008 Vanderbijlpark United States Netherlands Colombia South Africa
2010 Dornbirn United States South Africa Netherlands Austria
2012

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States 3 0 0 3
2 France 2 1 0 3
3 Andorra 2 0 1 3
4 England 1 2 2 5
5 Colombia 1 1 3 5
6 Mozambique 1 0 3 4
7 Chile 1 0 2 3
8 Germany 1 0 0 1
8 Brazil 1 0 0 1
8 Catalonia[2] 1 0 0 1
11 Netherlands 0 5 1 6
12 Spain 0 2 0 2
13 Belgium 0 1 0 1
13 Angola 0 1 0 1
13 South Africa 0 1 0 1
16 Australia 0 0 1 1
16 Canada 0 0 1 1

Records

Biggest margin of victory

1980
  Switzerland 56–0 India

References

  1. ^ A no contest the World Cup 2005 due to the FIRS not endorse its final acceptance by participating in the 2004 edition as a provisional member.
  2. ^ A no contest the World Cup 2005 due to the FIRS not endorse its final acceptance by participating in the 2004 edition as a provisional member.

External links

World Roller Hockey Championships
Men
Women