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Ice hockey
Ice hockey

Ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since the 1920 Summer Olympics. The sport moved to the Winter Olympic Games program for the first Winter Games in 1924. A women's ice hockey tournament was added to the Olympic program for the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Between 1920 and 1968, the Olympic hockey tournament was also considered the Ice Hockey World Championships for that year.

Participating nations

The following table shows the nations that have participated in Olympic ice hockey. For each Games, the final rank of each team is shown, or "–" if the team did not participate that year. Blank regions in the table indicate that the nation did not exist with that designation at that time.

Men

Nation 20 24 28 32 36 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 80 84 88 92 94 98 02 06 Total
 Australia (AUS) 9 1
 Austria (AUT) 5 =7 7 10 13 13 8 10 9 12 14 12 12
 Belarus (BLR) 7 4 2
 Belgium (BEL) =6 7 8 =9 4
 Bulgaria (BUL) 12 1
 Canada (CAN) 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 2 4 3 6 4 4 2 2 4 1 7 19
 Czech Republic (CZE) =5 1 7 3 4
 Czechoslovakia (TCH) 3 5 5 4 2 4 5 4 3 2 3 2 5 2 6 3 16
 Finland (FIN) 7 7 6 5 5 4 4 6 2 7 3 3 6 2 14
 France (FRA) =6 =5 5 =9 14 11 8 10 11 14 10
 Germany (GER) 8 3 5 6 7 9 8 10 8
 West Germany (FRG) 8 6 6 7 7 7 3 10 5 5 10
 East Germany (GDR) 8 1
 Great Britain (GBR) 3 4 1 5 4
 Hungary (HUN) 11 =7 16 3
 Italy (ITA) =9 8 7 15 9 12 9 12 11 9
 Japan (JPN) =9 8 11 10 9 9 12 13 8
 Kazakhstan (KAZ) 8 9 2
 Latvia (LAT) =9 9 12 3
 Netherlands (NED) 8 1
 Norway (NOR) 9 10 11 8 11 12 12 9 11 9
 Poland (POL) 8 4 =9 6 6 8 9 6 6 7 8 10 11 13
 Romania (ROU) 12 12 7 9 4
 Russia (RUS) 4 2 3 4 4
 Slovakia (SVK) 6 10 13 5 4
 Sweden (SWE) 4 4 2 5 4 3 4 5 2 4 4 3 3 3 5 1 5 5 1 19
 Switzerland (SUI) 5 7 3 =9 3 5 9 8 10 11 8 10 11 6 14
 Ukraine (UKR) 10 1
 Unified Team (EUN) 1 1
 United States (USA) 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 5 6 2 5 1 7 7 4 8 6 2 8 19
 Soviet Union (URS) 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 9
 Yugoslavia (YUG) 14 9 11 10 11 5
Total Teams 7 8 11 4 15 8 9 10 9 16 14 11 12 12 12 12 12 12 14 14 12

Women

Nation 1998 2002 2006 Total
 Canada (CAN) 2 1 1 3
 China (CHN) 4 7 2
 Finland (FIN) 3 4 4 3
 Germany (GER) 6 5 2
 Italy (ITA) 8 1
 Japan (JPN) 6 1
 Kazakhstan (KAZ) 8 1
 Russia (RUS) 5 6 2
 Sweden (SWE) 5 3 2 3
 Switzerland (SUI) 7 1
 United States (USA) 1 2 3 3
Total Teams 6 8 8

Medalists

Men

The ice hockey competition was initially dominated by teams from Canada, who won 6 of the first 7 tournaments. Canada's medal count suffered in the decades to follow, which saw more and more top players drawn into professional hockey, excluding them from Olympic eligibility. The team withdrew entirely during the 1970s, and did not send a team to the 1972 or 1976 games. The team's fortunes improved by the 1998 Nagano games, when professionals were allowed to play. This also led to the improvement of teams such as Sweden and the USA, which also had large numbers of professional players.

The era without professional players (ending by 1998) was dominated by the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union first participated in the Winter Olympics in 1956, they were immediately successful, and would win 7 gold medals in the nine appearances of the nation. Including the successor teams of the Unified Team in 1992 and Russia since 1994, Soviet or ex-Soviet hockey teams have won 12 medals (8 gold) in 14 total appearances.

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1920 Antwerp  Canada  United States  Czechoslovakia
1924 Chamonix  Canada  United States  Great Britain
1928 St. Moritz  Canada  Sweden   Switzerland
1932 Lake Placid  Canada  United States  Germany
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen  Great Britain  Canada  United States
1948 St. Moritz  Canada  Czechoslovakia   Switzerland
1952 Oslo  Canada  United States  Sweden
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo  Soviet Union  United States  Canada
1960 Squaw Valley  United States  Canada  Soviet Union
1964 Innsbruck  Soviet Union  Sweden  Czechoslovakia
1968 Grenoble  Soviet Union  Czechoslovakia  Canada
1972 Sapporo  Soviet Union  United States  Czechoslovakia
1976 Innsbruck  Soviet Union  Czechoslovakia  West Germany
1980 Lake Placid  United States  Soviet Union  Sweden
1984 Sarajevo  Soviet Union  Czechoslovakia  Sweden
1988 Calgary  Soviet Union  Finland  Sweden
1992 Albertville  Unified Team  Canada  Czechoslovakia
1994 Lillehammer  Sweden  Canada  Finland
1998 Nagano  Czech Republic  Russia  Finland
2002 Salt Lake City  Canada  United States  Russia
2006 Turin  Sweden  Finland  Czech Republic

Women

The women's tournament has been dominated by teams from Canada and the United States, who typically would only ever lose to each other and therefore, win gold and silver at every women's hockey tournament. Sweden broke this trend with a surprise defeat of the United States in 2006 to claim the silver medal.

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1998 Nagano  United States  Canada  Finland
2002 Salt Lake City  Canada  United States  Sweden
2006 Turin  Canada  Sweden  United States

Medal table

This is the all-time count of medals won in ice hockey at the Olympics, including both men's and women's tournaments.

1  Canada (CAN) 9 5 2 16
2  Soviet Union (URS) 7 1 1 9
3  United States (USA) 3 8 2 13
4  Sweden (SWE) 2 3 5 10
5  Czech Republic (CZE) 1 0 1 2
 Great Britain (GBR) 1 0 1 2
7  Unified Team (EUN) 1 0 0 1
8  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 0 4 4 8
9  Finland (FIN) 0 2 3 5
10  Russia (RUS) 0 1 1 2
11  Switzerland (SUI) 0 0 2 2
12  Germany (GER) 0 0 1 1
 West Germany (FRG) 0 0 1 1

References

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