Youth Bandy World Championship
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The Bandy World Championship for youth teams is a group of sports tournaments held for bandy athletes competing for their junior national teams. There are four different age classes for boys and young men and one age class for girls. The tournaments are governed by the Federation of International Bandy.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbandy.com/tournaments.asp?pageID=0 |title=Tournaments |publisher=Federation of International Bandy |access-date=30 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028045110/http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/2049/Kalenderbiteri/VMres.html |archive-date=October 28, 2009 }}
Age classes
The following tournaments are held regularly:
- World Championship G17 – for girls' teams up to age 17
G17 is sometimes written as F17 and the Y designations may also be written with a U
- World Championship Y15 – for boys' teams up to age 15
- World Championship Y17 – for boys' teams up to age 17
- World Championship Y19 – for young men's teams up to age 19
- World Championship Y23 – for young men's teams up to age 23
G17
{{Main|Bandy World Championship G-17}}
The first World Championship G17 was held in 2009 and it has since been held every other year.{{cite web|url=http://iof1.idrottonline.se/SvenskaBandyforbundet/Landslag/F17-landslaget/Historikochstatistik/|title=F17-landslaget: Historik och statistik|publisher=Swedish Bandy Association|access-date=15 May 2014}}
=G17 Champions=
- 2009 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia{{cite web|url=http://www.bandysidan.nu/tavlinginfo.php?sprak=eng&land=3|title=Evenemang|publisher=Bandysidan|access-date=14 May 2014}}
- 2011 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2013 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbandy.com/wcsg17/news.asp?newsid=501&t=Rosabollen_summerar_m%E4sterskapet|title=Rosa bollen summerar mästerskapet|publisher=Federation of International Bandy|language=sv|date=18 February 2013|access-date=14 May 2014}}
- 2015 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden[http://www.usabandy.com/f17worldchampionships USA Bandy: F17 World Championships], retrieved 12 March 2015
- 2017 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2019 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
Y15
The first World Championship Y16 was held in 1994. Starting with 2002, it has been for Y15 teams since.{{cite web|url=http://iof1.idrottonline.se/SvenskaBandyforbundet/Landslag/P15-landslaget/Historikochstatistik/|title=P15-landslaget: Historik och statistik|publisher=Swedish Bandy Association|access-date=15 May 2014}} The 2020 World Championship Y15 tournament in Arkhangelsk, Russia, was cancelled.{{cite web |url=https://fo-fo.facebook.com/events/arkhangelsk-russia/world-championship-y15/454893308518370/ |title=World Championship Y15 |website=facebook.com |author= |date=2020|access-date=24 August 2022|publisher= |language=en}}
=Y15 Champions=
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- 1994 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1995 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 1996 {{flagicon|Finland}} Finland
- 1998 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2002 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2004 {{flagicon|Finland}} Finland
- 2006 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2008 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2010 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2012 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2014 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2016 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia{{cite web|url=http://www.rusbandy.ru/season/211 |title=Чемпионат мира среди мл. юношей (U-15) - 2016 |trans-title=World Championship ml. youth (U-15) - 2016 |language=ru |access-date=6 February 2017}}
- 2018 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia[http://www.rusbandy.ru/season/315/ Первенство мира среди мл. юношей U-15 - 2018]
- 2020 Cancelled
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Y17
The first World Championship Y17 was held in 1975, the next in 1979. The Soviet Union took part in both 1975 and 1979 but did not win a medal until the third installment in 1981. In 1995 and 1997 it was Y18 teams instead of Y17.{{cite web|url=http://iof1.idrottonline.se/SvenskaBandyforbundet/Landslag/P17-landslaget/Historikochstatistik/|title=P17-landslaget: Historik och statistik|publisher=Swedish Bandy Association|access-date=15 May 2014}}
=Y17 Champions=
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- 1975 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1979 {{flagicon|Finland}} Finland{{cite web|url=http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2013/02/03/finland-vann-junior-vm-i-bandy|title= Finland vann junior-VM i bandy|publisher=YLE|language=sv|date=3 February 2013|access-date=14 May 2014}}
- 1981 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1983 {{flagicon|Soviet Union}} Soviet Union
- 1985 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1987 {{flagicon|Soviet Union}} Soviet Union
- 1989 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1991 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1993 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1995 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1997 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 1999 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2001 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2003 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2005 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2007 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2009 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2011 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2013 {{flagicon|Finland}} Finland
- 2015 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia{{cite web|url= http://www.bandysidan.nu/tavlinginfo.php?EVID=204&sprak=eng&land=3|publisher= Bandysidan|title=World Championships U17 2014/15|access-date= 15 August 2015}}
- 2016 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2017 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia[http://www.rusbandy.ru/season/314/ Первенство мира среди ст. юношей U-17 - 2018]
- 2018 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2019 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2020 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2021 {{flagicon|}}
- 2022 {{flagicon|}}
- 2023 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2024 {{flagicon|Finland}} Finland
- 2025 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
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Y19
{{Main|Bandy World Championship Y-19}}
World Championship Y19 has been held biannually since 1968. In 1994 and 1996 it was Y20 teams instead.{{cite web|url=http://iof1.idrottonline.se/SvenskaBandyforbundet/Landslag/P19-landslaget/Historikochstatistik/|title=P19-landslaget: Historik och statistik|publisher=Swedish Bandy Association|access-date=15 May 2014}}
=Y19 Champions=
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- 1968 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1970 {{flagicon|Soviet Union}} Soviet Union
- 1972 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1974 {{flagicon|Soviet Union}} Soviet Union
- 1976 {{flagicon|Soviet Union}} Soviet Union
- 1978 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1980 {{flagicon|Soviet Union}} Soviet Union
- 1982 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1984 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1986 {{flagicon|Soviet Union}} Soviet Union
- 1988 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1990 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1992 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1994 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 1996 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 1998 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2000 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2002 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2004 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2006 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2008 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2010 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2012 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2014 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2016 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2017 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2018 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2019 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2020 {{flagicon|Russia}} Russia
- 2021 {{flagicon|}} not held
- 2022 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2023 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden
- 2024 {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden {{div col end}}
Y23
{{Main|Bandy World Championship Y-23}}
World Championship Y23 were held in 1990 and in 1992, but then the next was not held until 2011. In 2016, 2017 and 2019 it was Y21 teams instead.{{cite web|url=http://iof1.idrottonline.se/SvenskaBandyforbundet/Landslag/U23-landslaget/Historikochstatistik/|title=U23-landslaget: Historik och statistik|publisher=Swedish Bandy Association|access-date=15 May 2014}}