Canada hangs on to the top spot in the IIHF World Men’s Ranking despite the loss to Czech Republic in the gold medal game of the 2005 IIHF World Championship in Vienna, Austria.
The draw to determine the four Preliminary Round groups for the 2006 IIHF World Championship was conducted today in Riga, Latvia, the host city of the 70th flagship event of the IIHF.
The 2005 IIHF Annual Congress today awarded the 2010 IIHF World Championship to Germany. The venues will be Cologne and Mannheim. Germany defeated the competing bid from Belarus (Minsk and Zhodino) with 89 votes to 18. Initial bidder Slovakia withdrew from the 2010 race prior to the start of the congress while Sweden withdrew immediately prior to the start of the voting.
