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The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The tournament held at the 1920 Summer Olympics is recognized as the first Ice Hockey World Championship. Between 1920 and 1968, the Olympic hockey tournament was also considered the World Championship for that year. The first World Championship that was held as an individual event was in 1930 in which twelve nations participated. The modern format for the World Championship features 16 teams in the championship group. The teams play a preliminary round, then the top eight teams play in the playoff medal round and the winning team is crowned World Champion.
Canada was the tournament's first dominant team, winning the tournament 12 times between 1930 and 1952. The Soviet Union first participated in 1954 and soon became rivals with Canada. From 1963 until the nation's breakup in 1991, the Soviet Union was the dominant team, winning 20 championships. In the 2000s, the competition became more open as the "Big Six" teams – Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden, and the United States – as well as Slovakia became more evenly matched.
The 2016 IIHF World Championship is the 80th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), being held in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, from 6 May to 22 May 2016.
Date of the issue: 29.04.2016
Obverse
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The relief image of the national coat of arms of the Russian Federation, over it – the semicircular inscription along the rim: RUSSIAN FEDERATION, framed on both sides by doubled rhombuses, below under the coat of arms: to the left – indications of the precious metal and its fineness, to the right – the fine metal content and the mint trade mark (SPMD), on the bottom in the centre, in three lines – the inscription: BANK OF RUSSIA, the denomination of the coin: 3 RUBLES, the year of issue: 2016. РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ |
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Reverse
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Depicts the relief image of the hockey player with a hockey stick and a puck against a background of the symbolic network of parallels and meridians, to the right – the year of the championship: 2016, to the left along the rim the inscription: ICE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. ЧЕМПИОНАТ МИРА ПО ХОККЕЮ |
Edge |
300 corrugations |
3 Rubles
2016 Ice Hockey World Championship in Moscow & St. Petersburg
CBR# 5111-0331
2016 Ice Hockey World Championship in Moscow & St. Petersburg
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