INTERSPORT - Official Sponsor of the 2008 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships
26.02.2008 | INTERSPORT, the world's leading retail brand is proud to announce that they are sponsoring the 2008 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships taking place in Quebec City and Halifax, Canada, from 2 to 18 May 2008.
IIHF World Championships
From May 2 until 18, 16 hockey nations will converge on Halifax, NS and Quebec City, QC, vying to become the first world champion ever crowned on Canadian soil. The two venues will be the Halifax Metro Centre (10’595 seats) and the Colisée Pepsi (15’750 seats).
It will be the 72nd annual event, and will be run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). This will be the first time the final tournament is held in a non-European country since 1962, when it was held in Colorado, USA. The IIHF wants to celebrate the federation’s 100th anniversary by holding the tournament in the country where organized ice hockey was born.
The tournament will serve as the qualifying round for the men’s hockey competition at the 2010
Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The top nine teams in the IIHF World
Rankings after Canada 2008 will be automatically qualified to Vancouver 2010.
Participating teams
Sixteen participating teams have been placed in four groups. Top three teams in each group to advance to the Qualifying Round while the last team to compete in the relegation round.
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