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.
Though bandy was played in the Soviet Union, it did not partake in the event because the country 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.Eric Sköld (ed.): Boken om bandy, Uppsala: Bygd och Folk Förlag (1948), p. 183 (in Swedish)
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: 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 Bosse Halla Leif Eriksen David Eriksen Arne Bakker Tore Frisholm Rolf Person Arne Johansen Einar Andersen Martin Olsen Cato Helgerud Gunnar Fossum Ole Marthinsen 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
Results
Final rankings
References
External links 1952 Winter Olympics pp. 215–216, 256