Bandy at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Bandy at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Tournament details
Host country	Norway
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Dates	20–23 February
Teams	3
Final positions
Champions	Sweden (1st title)
Runner-up	Norway
Third place	Finland
Tournament statistics
Games played	3
Goals scored	12 (4 per game)

Bandy was held as a demonstration sport at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. A men's program was included but not a women's program.

Sweden, Norway and Finland participated with their best players and won one match each. All three teams also lost a match apiece. Sweden won the tournament thanks to the best goal difference, with Norway second and Finland third. The three participating countries regularly played friendlies, but this was the first official international bandy tournament since 1913.^{[citation needed]}

Though bandy was played in the Soviet Union, they did not partake in the event because they did not compete in any international bandy competitions at that point. While agreements had previously been made to play friendlies against Sweden in the late 1940s, the plans did not come to fruition.^[1]

The Olympic bandy games were noticed by the sport's leaders from the Soviet Union, who invited the three Nordic countries to a friendly four-nation bandy tournament in 1954. The first men's Bandy World Championships were not held until five years later, in 1957.

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Sweden Yngve Palmqvist Orvar Bergmark Herbert Swartswee Karl-Erik Sjöberg Olle Lindgren Sven-Olof Landar Inge Cahlman Martin Johansson Olle Sääv Sven-Eric Broberg Ernst Hård Agard Magnusson Tore Olsson Henry Olsson	Norway Bosse Halla Leif Eriksen David Eriksen Arne Bakker Tore Frisholm Rolf Person Arne Johansen Einar Andersen Martin Olsen Cato Helgerud Gunnar Fossum Ole Marthinsen	Finland Herbert Lundström Juhani Halme Yrjö Jussila Arvo Raitavuo Per-Erik Lindqvist Martti Nyyssönen Olof Stolpe Kauko Tukiainen Erik Åberg Heikki Ollikainen Sakari Salo Pentti Immonen Pentti Hämäläinen