The Finnish men's national inline hockey team is the national men's inline hockey team for Finland. Finland was one of the most successful teams at the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championships, which were organized during 1996 to 2017 until the tournament was discontinued by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) in 2019. The tournament was organized annually during 1996 to 2015, with the exception of the year 1999. Starting from 2017, the tournament was to be held every other year but, after being forced to cancel the 2019 edition due to lack of interested hosts, the IIHF voted in June 2019 to end its governance over inline hockey, ending the organization’s involvement in any future inline hockey tournaments. Finland won a total of thirteen medals in nineteen tournaments. At the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship in Bratislava, the final tournament organized by the IIHF, the team finished in second place.
World Championship results by year
Year Host Result 1996 Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota 1997 Anaheim, California 6th 1998 Anaheim, California 1999No tournament held 2000 Hradec Kralové & Choceň 2001 Ellenton, Florida 2002 Nürnberg & Pfaffenhofen 2003 Nürnberg & Amberg 2004 Bad Tölz 2005 Kuopio 2006 Budapest 2007 Landshut & Passau 2008 Bratislava 6th 2009 Ingolstadt 4th 2010 Karlstad 6th 2011 Pardubice 5th 2012 Ingolstadt 2013 Dresden 7th 2014 Pardubice 2015 Tampere 2017 Bratislava 2019 Tournament permanently cancelled Source: IIHF
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