{"history":[],"article":{"id":"c37585a2-9229-4740-b5b8-2720df5d7a9b","title":"Ice hockey at the 1992 Winter Olympics","slug":"ice-hockey-at-the-1992-winter-olympics","content":":::summary\n![ice hockey](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Ice///hockey///pictogram.svg)\n**Tourney Name:** Winter Olympics · Ice Hockey \n**Year:** 1992 \n**Size:** 80px \n**Country:** France \n**Dates:** 9–23 February \n**Num Teams:** 12 \n**Venues:** [Méribel Ice Palace](https://bliptext.com/articles/m-ribel-ice-palace) \n**Type:** ih \n**Winners:** EUN \n**Count:** 1 \n**Second:** Canada \n**Third:** Czechoslovakia \n**Fourth:** USA \n**Games:** 46 \n**Goals:** 316 \n**Scoring Leader:** [🇨🇦](https://bliptext.com/articles/canada) [Joe Juneau](https://bliptext.com/articles/joe-juneau) 15 points \n**Prevseason:** [1988](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-1988-winter-olympics) \n**Nextseason:** [1994](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-1994-winter-olympics) \n:::\n\n# \nThe men's **[ice hockey](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey)** tournament at the **[1992 Winter Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/1992-winter-olympics)** in [Albertville](https://bliptext.com/articles/albertville), [France](https://bliptext.com/articles/france), was the 17th [Olympic Championship](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-olympic-games).\nThe games were played at the [Méribel Ice Palace](https://bliptext.com/articles/m-ribel-ice-palace) in [Méribel](https://bliptext.com/articles/m-ribel), about 45 km from host city Albertville.\nThe competition, held from 9 to 23 February, was won by the [Unified Team](https://bliptext.com/articles/unified-team-at-the-olympics) in its only appearance.\nThe team was composed of some newly emerged nations from the former [Soviet Union](https://bliptext.com/articles/soviet-national-ice-hockey-team), which had [dissolved](https://bliptext.com/articles/dissolution-of-the-soviet-union) just weeks before the Games began.\n[Canada](https://bliptext.com/articles/canada-men-s-national-ice-hockey-team) won the silver medal, its first hockey medal since 1968 and 11th Olympic ice hockey medal.\n\n# Medalists\n\n# Qualification\nThe Olympic tournament was to be contested by twelve nations.\nThe top eleven nations from the [1991 World Championships](https://bliptext.com/articles/1991-men-s-world-ice-hockey-championships) (eight from pool A, top three from pool B) qualified directly, while the twelfth ranked nation had to play off against the winner of that year's pool C.\n**Poland** qualified in final tournament\n\n# First round\nTwelve participating teams were placed in two groups.\nAfter playing a [round-robin](https://bliptext.com/articles/round-robin-tournament), the top four teams in each group advanced to the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the consolation round for the 9th to 12th places.\n\n## Group A\n

\nAll times are local ([UTC+1](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-1)).\n

\n\n## Group B\n

\nAll times are local ([UTC+1](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-1)).\n

\n\n# Consolation round\n\n## Bracket\n\n## 9–12th-place semifinals\n

\n\n## 11th-place game\n

\n\n## 9th-place game\n

\n\n# Final round\n\n## Bracket\n# [Gold Medal Game, starting line-ups | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/CAN-EUN///1992///WOG///GMG///1992-02-23.svg]\n\n## Quarter-finals\n

\n\n## 5–8th-place semifinals\n

\n\n## Semi-finals\n

\n\n## Seventh-place game\n\n## Fifth-place game\n\n## Bronze-medal game\n\n## Gold-medal game\n\n# Statistics\n\n## Average age\nTeam Germany was the oldest team in the tournament, averaging 28 years and 6 months.\nTeam USA was the youngest team in the tournament, averaging 24 years.\nGold medalists Unified Team averaged 24 years and 2 months.\nTournament average was 26 years and 4 months.\n\n## Leading scorers\n\n# Final rankings\n\n# Unified Medal controversy\nRussian [goaltender](https://bliptext.com/articles/goaltender) [Nikolai Khabibulin](https://bliptext.com/articles/nikolai-khabibulin) was the third on the depth chart and never played when the [Unified Team](https://bliptext.com/articles/unified-team-at-the-olympics) won gold in [Albertville, France](https://bliptext.com/articles/albertville-france).\nInstead of giving the gold to someone who did not play, coach [Viktor Tikhonov](https://bliptext.com/articles/viktor-tikhonov-ice-hockey-born-1930) kept it.\nOnly players are given Olympic medals; coaches and management are not.\nThe medal was returned to Khabibulin in a private medal ceremony during the [2002 Winter Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/2002-winter-olympics) in [Salt Lake City](https://bliptext.com/articles/salt-lake-city), [Utah](https://bliptext.com/articles/utah).","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-25T21:35:36.701Z","updated_at":"2025-01-25T21:35:36.701Z","search_vector":"'1992':5 'hockey':2 'ice':1 'olymp':7 'winter':6","search_content":" \n \n**Tourney Name:** Winter Olympics · Ice Hockey \n**Year:** 1992 \n**Size:** 80px \n**Country:** France \n**Dates:** 9–23 February \n**Num Teams:** 12 \n**Venues:** [Méribel Ice Palace](https://bliptext.com/articles/m-ribel-ice-palace) \n**Type:** ih \n**Winners:** EUN \n**Count:** 1 \n**Second:** Canada \n**Third:** Czechoslovakia \n**Fourth:** USA \n**Games:** 46 \n**Goals:** 316 \n**Scoring Leader:** [🇨🇦](https://bliptext.com/articles/canada) [Joe Juneau](https://bliptext.com/articles/joe-juneau) 15 points \n**Prevseason:** [1988](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-1988-winter-olympics) \n**Nextseason:** [1994](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-1994-winter-olympics) \n \n\n# \nThe men's **[ice hockey](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey)** tournament at the **[1992 Winter Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/1992-winter-olympics)** in [Albertville](https://bliptext.com/articles/albertville), [France](https://bliptext.com/articles/france), was the 17th [Olympic Championship](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-olympic-games).\nThe games were played at the [[Méribel](https://bliptext.com/articles/m-ribel) Ice Palace](https://bliptext.com/articles/m-ribel-ice-palace) in [Méribel](https://bliptext.com/articles/m-ribel), about 45 km from host city Albertville.\nThe competition, held from 9 to 23 February, was won by the [Unified Team](https://bliptext.com/articles/unified-team-at-the-olympics) in its only appearance.\nThe team was composed of some newly emerged nations from the former [Soviet Union](https://bliptext.com/articles/soviet-national-ice-hockey-team), which had [dissolved](https://bliptext.com/articles/dissolution-of-the-soviet-union) just weeks before the Games began.\n[Canada](https://bliptext.com/articles/canada-men-s-national-ice-hockey-team) won the silver medal, its first hockey medal since 1968 and 11th Olympic ice hockey medal.\n\n# Medalists\n\n# Qualification\nThe Olympic tournament was to be contested by twelve nations.\nThe top eleven nations from the [1991 World Championships](https://bliptext.com/articles/1991-men-s-world-ice-hockey-championships) (eight from pool A, top three from pool B) qualified directly, while the twelfth ranked nation had to play off against the winner of that year's pool C.\n**Poland** qualified in final tournament\n\n# First round\nTwelve participating teams were placed in two groups.\nAfter playing a [round-robin](https://bliptext.com/articles/round-robin-tournament), the top four teams in each group advanced to the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the consolation round for the 9th to 12th places.\n\n## Group A\n \nAll times are local ([UTC+1](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-1)).\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n## Group B\n \nAll times are local ([UTC+1](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-1)).\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n# Consolation round\n\n## Bracket\n\n## 9–12th-place semifinals\n \n \n\n## 11th-place game\n \n\n## 9th-place game\n \n\n# Final round\n\n## Bracket\n# [Gold Medal Game, starting line-ups | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/CAN-EUN///1992///WOG///GMG///1992-02-23.svg]\n\n## Quarter-finals\n \n \n \n \n\n## 5–8th-place semifinals\n \n \n\n## Semi-finals\n \n \n\n## Seventh-place game\n\n## Fifth-place game\n\n## Bronze-medal game\n\n## Gold-medal game\n\n# Statistics\n\n## Average age\nTeam Germany was the oldest team in the tournament, averaging 28 years and 6 months.\nTeam USA was the youngest team in the tournament, averaging 24 years.\nGold medalists Unified Team averaged 24 years and 2 months.\nTournament average was 26 years and 4 months.\n\n## Leading scorers\n\n# Final rankings\n\n# Unified Medal controversy\nRussian [goaltender](https://bliptext.com/articles/goaltender) [Nikolai Khabibulin](https://bliptext.com/articles/nikolai-khabibulin) was the third on the depth chart and never played when the [Unified Team](https://bliptext.com/articles/unified-team-at-the-olympics) won gold in [Albertville, France](https://bliptext.com/articles/albertville-france).\nInstead of giving the gold to someone who did not play, coach [Viktor Tikhonov](https://bliptext.com/articles/viktor-tikhonov-ice-hockey-born-1930) kept it.\nOnly players are given Olympic medals; coaches and management are not.\nThe medal was returned to Khabibulin in a private medal ceremony during the [2002 Winter Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/2002-winter-olympics) in [Salt Lake City](https://bliptext.com/articles/salt-lake-city), [Utah](https://bliptext.com/articles/utah).","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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