Sweden national ringette team

Girl's and women's national ringette teams representing Sweden

Sweden

Nickname(s)| Team Sweden
Association| Sweden Ringette Association
(Swedish: Svenska Ringetteförbundet)
Team colors|

Home colours

Away colours

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First international
Senior:
1992 (Senior)
(Helsinki, Finland; 1992)

Junior:
2016 (President's Pool)
(Helsinki, Finland; 2016)
World Ringette Championships
Appearances| Junior: 1
(first in 2016)

Senior: 12 excluding 1998 Summit Series (first in 1992)
Best result|

* Senior:
* Senior Pool
* 3rd
* 2007, 2016
* President's Pool
* 1st
* 2017, 2019

* Junior:
* President's Pool
* 5th
* 2016

Medal record

World Ringette Championships
Seniors
| Senior
1990 Gloucester | No team
| Senior
1992 Helsinki | Team
| Senior
1994 Saint Paul | Team
| Senior
1996 Stockholm | Team
| 1998 Summit Series
Turku, Gothenburg, Osnabruck, Colmar | No team
| Senior
2000 Espoo and Lahti | Team
| Senior
2002 Edmonton | Team
| Senior
2004 Stockholm | Team
| Senior
2007 Ottawa | Team
| Senior
2010 Tampere | Team
| President's Pool
2013 North Bay | Team
| Senior Pool
2016 Helsinki | Team
| Junior Pool
2016 Helsinki | Team
| President's Pool
2017 Helsinki | Team
| President's Pool
2019 Burnaby | Team
| 2021 Helsinki | Cancelled
| President's Pool
2022 Espoo | Team
| President's Pool
2023 Calgary | Team
World Junior Ringette Championships
Juniors
| 2009 Prague | No team
| 2012 London | No team
World Ringette Championships
Juniors
| 2013 North Bay | No team
| 2016 Tampere | Team
| 2017 Mississauga | No team
| 2019 Burnaby | No team
| 2021 Helsinki | Cancelled
| 2022 Espoo | No team
| 2023 Calgary |

The Sweden national ringette team (Swedish: Sverige ringette landslaget), more commonly known as "Team Sweden", is the ringette team representing Sweden internationally. Sweden has both a senior national ringette team and a junior national ringette team. Both Team Sweden Senior and Team Sweden Junior are overseen by the Sweden Ringette Association (SRA), (Swedish: Svenska Ringetteförbundet) and compete in the World Ringette Championships (WRC). The SRA is a member of the International Ringette Federation (IRF). Sweden's first appearance in international ringette took place at the second World Ringette Championships in 1992. Team USA is Team Sweden's arch-rival with both teams competing in the President's Pool against Team Czech.

Though Sweden joined the IRF in 1986, which at the time was known as the "World Ringette Council", the Sweden Ringette Association was not formed until 1994, then was elected as an associate member of the Swedish Sports Confederation in 2003.[1]

## History

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Team Sweden (now Team Sweden Senior) made its international ringette debut in 1992 at the second World Ringette Championships (WRC) in Helsinki, Finland, where the 1992 Sweden team finished in sixth place. At the time there was only one division where athletes could compete and was reserved strictly for women.

While the World Junior Ringette Championships first began in 2009 and occurred again in 2012, Sweden never sent a junior team to compete at either world tournament. The world junior tournament merged with the world championship program for senior teams in 2013 where world titles for a Senior Pool, Junior Pool, and President's Pool were contested. There was an exception in WRC 2016 whereby the Team Sweden Senior competed the Senior Pool and Team Sweden Junior competed in the Junior Pool.

Sweden's first junior national team (U19) was formed in 2016 and competed in the 2016 World Ringette Championships. They did not compete in 2017 and have yet to return to the world stage.

## World Championship record

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### Senior Sweden

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(Seniors) World Ringette Championships

Year  | Location  | Result
1990 |  Gloucester | No team
1992 |  Helsinki | Senior
6th
1994 |  Saint Paul | Senior
6th
1996 |  Stockholm | Senior
4th
1998
"Summit Series" | Void
2000 |  Espoo and Lahti | Senior
4th
2002 |  Edmonton | Senior
4th
2004 |  Stockholm | Senior
4th
2007 |  Ottawa | Senior
Bronze
2010 |  Tampere | Senior
4th
2013 |  North Bay | 4th
2016 |  Helsinki | Senior Pool
Bronze
Junior Pool
Bronze
2017 |  Mississauga | President's
Gold
2019 |  Burnaby | President's
Gold
2021 |  Helsinki | cancelled
2022 |  Espoo | President's
Silver

### Junior Sweden

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(Juniors) World Ringette Championships

Year  | Location  | Result
2009 |  Prague | No team
2012 |  London, Ontario | No team
2013 |  North Bay | No team
2016 |  Helsinki | 5th
2017 |  Mississauga | No team
2019 |  Burnaby | No team
2021 |  Helsinki | cancelled
2022 |  Espoo |

## Team Sweden Senior

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Team Sweden (Senior) made its world debut at the second World Ringette Championships (WRC) in 1992. The senior team has competed in every WRC with the exception of the world competition's inaugural year in 1990, the 1998 World Ringette Championships which was replaced by a 1998 Summit series between Team Canada and Team Finland, and the 2021 World Ringette Championships when the tournament was cancelled due to Covid-19.

### 1998 Seniors

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The 1998 World Ringette Championships were initially meant to be held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Instead a promotional five game ringette "Summit Series" tour of Europe was organized with a series of games between a Team Canada, and Team Finland between February 27 and March 7, 1998.[2][3] Team Sweden Senior did not compete that year.

## Team Sweden Junior

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Team Sweden Junior (U19) made its first world appearance at the 2016 World Ringette Championships in Helsinki, Finland. However, Sweden has yet to field another junior national team and has not returned to the world stage as of yet.

## See also

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* Sports portal
* Sweden portal

* Sweden Ringette Association
* Ringette
* World Ringette Championships
* Canada national ringette team
* Finland national ringette team
* United States national ringette team
* Czech Republic national ringette team
* International Ringette Federation
* Sam Jacks
* Juhani "Juuso" Wahlsten

## References

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1. ^ "Historia och organisation - Uppslagsverk - NE.se". www.ne.se (in Swedish).
2. ^ "1998 Summit Series". International Ringette Federation. 1998. Archived from the original on 29 August 2011.
3. ^ "World Ringette Championships". ringette.ca. Ringette Canada.

## External links

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* International Ringette Federation
* The History of Ringette in Calgary
* Ringette Canada
* (in Finnish) Ringette Finland
* Team USA Ringette
* (in Swedish) Sweden Ringette Association
* (in Czech) Ringette Slovakia
* (in Czech) Czech Ringette (Czech: Česky Svaz Ringetu)