1976 World Ice Hockey Championships

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The 1976 World Ice Hockey Championships were the 43rd Ice Hockey World Championships and the 54th European Championships in ice hockey. The tournament took place in Poland from 8th April to 25th April, and the games were played in Katowice. Eight teams took part in the main tournamen, with each team first playing each other once. The four best teams then took part in a medal play off, and the teams placed 5-8 took part in a relegation play-off. The teams took the results from the first round through to the second round with them.

Czechoslovakia won nine games and were unbeaten, becoming world champions for the fourth time.

Contents 1 First round table 2 Places 5-8 - Table 3 Places 1-4 - Table 4 World Championship medal table 5 European Championship medal table

[edit] First round table

	Team	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points Difference	Points
1	Czechoslovakia	7	7	0	0	54 - 7	14
2	Soviet Union	7	5	0	2	37 - 15	10
3	Sweden	7	4	0	3	22 - 18	8
4	United States	7	3	1	3	19 - 23	7
5	Poland	7	2	1	4	21 - 36	5
6	Germany	7	2	0	5	19 - 35	4
7	Finland	7	1	2	4	17-29	4
8	East Germany	7	2	0	5	11-37	4

[edit] Places 5-8 - Table

	Team	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points difference	Points
1	Finland	10	2	4	4	35-41	8
2	Germany	10	3	2	5	26 - 41	8
3	Poland	10	3	2	5	32 - 47	7
4	East Germany	10	2	1	7	19-52	5

[edit] Places 1-4 - Table

	Team	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points difference	Points
1	Czechoslovakia	10	9	1	0	67 - 14	19
2	Soviet Union	10	6	1	3	50 - 23	13
3	Sweden	10	6	0	4	36 - 29	12
4	United States	10	3	1	6	24 - 42	7

[edit] World Championship medal table

1976 World Championships	Country
Gold	Czechoslovakia
Silver	Soviet Union
Bronze	Sweden
4	United States
5	Finland
6	Germany
7	Poland
8	East Germany

[edit] European Championship medal table

European Championships 1976	Country
Gold	Czechoslovakia
Silver	Soviet Union
Bronze	Sweden
4	Finland
5	Germany
6	Poland
7	East Germany