Federation of International Bandy

Federation of International Bandy
Formation February 12, 1955
Type Sports federation
Headquarters Söderhamn, Sweden
Membership
32 members
Boris Skrynnik
Website www.worldbandy.com
World map showing the 32 FIB members
World map showing the 4 original members of FIB
Even if bandy has never been an official Olympic event (as of 2016), FIB, fully accepted by IOC

The Federation of International Bandy (FIB) is the international governing body for the sport of bandy, including the variant called rink bandy.

History

Bandy as we know it today has been played since the later half of the 19th Century. Rules were set up in the 1890s by the National Bandy Association in England and by the corresponding body in Russia. The Ligue International de Hockey sur Glace (LIHG) was founded on May 15, 1908 at 34 Rue de Provence in Paris, France,[1] at a time when bandy and ice hockey were seen as variants of the same game. The founders of the federation were representatives from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Bohemia (now Czech republic). However, as ice hockey became an Olympic sport while bandy did not, bandy only survived in some of the Nordic countries and Soviet Union. LIHG is now the International Ice Hockey Federation.

In the 1940s, the Nordic countries Finland, Norway and Sweden set up a joint rules committee. In the early 1950s, the Soviet Union decided to break out of its isolation in international sport and started a friendly exchange with the Nordic countries.

The federation was formed on 12 of February 1955 at Hotell Malmen in Stockholm, Sweden,[2] by representatives from Finland, Norway, the Soviet Union and Sweden. The federation has had its base in Sweden since 1979. The present office is situated in Söderhamn, headed by FIB Secretary General Bo Nyman. Boris Skrynnik is the FIB President.

When FIB was formed in 1955, it introduced the same rules for bandy all over the world. Especially in Russia, different rules had been used prior to this. Bandy World Championships have been organized for men since 1957 and for women since 2004.

The federation was named the International Bandy Federation (IBF) between 1957 and 2001. The current name was adopted at a request from the International Olympic Committee when the IOC made bandy a "recognized sport", since the acronym IBF at the time was already in use by the International Badminton Federation (in 2006, the International Badminton Federation changed names to Badminton World Federation and now uses the acronym BWF). In 2004, FIB was fully accepted by IOC.[3]

FIB is a member of Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations.

The number of bandy playing nations have grown considerably in the last decades. There are 32 national members of the federation as of 2015, although the list at the homepage hasn't been updated since 2012. The newest member is Denmark.[4]

Purposes

In 2011, FIB formulized its purposes as being the following.

FIB vows to completely share the principles and articles of the Olympic Charter in its activities, including the policy with regard to anti-doping controls.

FIB wants to promote the development of the sports of bandy and rink bandy in the member countries and wants to carry on propaganda for the importance and advantages of these sports. FIB also works for bandy to become an Olympic sport.

FIB declares itself to be an "independent autonomic mainsports organization which mainly is governing bandy activities all over the world".

FIB leads and supervises bandy and rink bandy around the world. FIB also sees as its job to settle the rules for the games.

One national member association should be entrusted by FIB with arranging an official world championship. FIB means that at least four nations must participate for it to be worth an event.

FIB also wants to promote the introduction and the membership of new nations to the organisation.[5]

Rules of the game

The rules of bandy is set in the Bandy Playing Rules. It is overseen by the Rules and Referee Committee.

Presidents

The following persons harve been presidents of FIB:[6]

  • 1955 – 1963, Gunnar Galin, Sweden
  • 1963 – 1967, Allan Yungquist, Finland
  • 1967 – 1971, Arne Argus, Sweden
  • 1971 – 1978, Grigory Granaturov, Soviet Union
  • 1978 – 1983, Pontus Widén, Sweden
  • 1983 – 1991, Grigory Granaturov, Soviet Union
  • 1991 – 1993, Carl Fogelberg, Finland
  • 1993 – 1997, Staffan Söderlund, Sweden
  • 1997 – 2005, Albert Pomortsev, Russia
  • 2005 – 2005, Seppo Vaihela, Sweden
  • 2005 – Boris Skrynnik, Russia

Members and years of admission

The federation was founded by the national bandy associations in Finland, Norway, the Soviet Union and Sweden.

The Soviet membership was taken over by Russia in early 1992, following the dissolvement of the Soviet Union in December 1991. For two months, the former Soviet Union national bandy team appeared as Commonwealth of Independent States, but the CIS was never formally a member of the FIB.

Country: Year: National Federation: External link: National team, men's: National team, women's:
 Afghanistan 2012 Bandy Federation of Afghanistan
 Argentina 2008 Bandy Federation of Argentina
 Armenia 2008 Armenian National Federation of Bandy
 Australia 2006 Australian Bandy League
 Belarus 1999 Belarusian Bandy Federation  Belarus
 Canada 1986 Canada Bandy  Canada  Canada
 China 2010 China Bandy Federation  China  China
 Czech Republic 2014 Czech Association of Bandy  Czech Republic
 Denmark 2014 Bandy Federation of Denmark
 England 2010 Bandy Federation of England  England  England
 Estonia 2002 Estonian Bandy Association  Estonia
 Finland 1955 Finland's Bandy Association  Finland  Finland
 Germany 2013 German Bandy Association  Germany
 Hungary 1988 Hungarian Bandy Federation  Hungary  Hungary
 India 2002 Bandy Federation of India  India
 Ireland 2006 Bandy Federation of Ireland  Ireland
 Italy 2003 Federazione Italiana Bandy  Italy
 Japan 2011 Japan Bandy Federation  Japan
 Kazakhstan 1994 Kazakhstan Bandy Federation  Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan 2004 Bandy Federation of Kyrgyzstan  Kyrgyzstan
 Latvia 2006 Latvia's Bandy Federation  Latvia
 Lithuania 2008 Lithuanian Bandy Association
 Mongolia 2002 Bandy Federation of Mongolia  Mongolia
 Netherlands 1973 Bandy Bond Nederland  Netherlands
 Norway 1955 Norway's Bandy Association  Norway  Norway
 Poland 2005 Bandy Federation of Poland
 Russia 1992 All Russian Bandy Federation  Russia  Russia
 Serbia 2006 Bandy Federation of Serbia
 Somalia 2013 Somali National Bandy Association  Somalia
 Sweden 1955 Swedish Bandy Association  Sweden  Sweden
  Switzerland 2006 Federation of Swiss Bandy
 Ukraine 2008 Ukrainian Bandy and Rink bandy Federation  Ukraine
 United States 1981 American Bandy Association  United States  United States

Former members

Soviet Union Soviet Union 1955–1991: When the international federation was founded in 1955, the Soviet Union was one of its founding members. The Soviet national federation was called the Federation of bandy and field hockey USSR (Федерация хоккея с мячом и хоккея на траве СССР). The Soviet Union had a national bandy team for men and a national bandy team for women. When the Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991, the national team came to represent the Commonwealth of Independent States for some months. In 1992, Russia took over its place in FIB.

Germany West Germany/Germany 1990–1991: Before the present German Bandy Association was founded in 2013, there had been an earlier, short-lived German federation, which was a member of FIB from January 1990 until March 1991, when it voluntarily choose to leave.[7][8] In its short life span, it still overlived the German reunification in October 1990.

Continental federations

The Asian countries in FIB have founded the Asian Bandy Federation, which has its headquarters in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This helps organize the bandy competition at the Asian Winter Games and tries spreading the knowledge of bandy in Asia.

See also

Notes

  1. IIHF and Paris International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved on 2010-02-18
  2. Claes-G Bengtsson 23 januari 2010 - Finskt i första VM-matchen
  3. "About FIB". FIB. 27 September 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  4. http://www.worldbandy.com/template1.asp?pageID=7
  5. "Information" (in German). Deutscher Bandy-Bund. 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  6. "FIB History". Federation of International Bandy. 2011-09-27. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
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