Editing Bandy (section)

===Modern development===
[[File:Hammarby vs GAIS 2012-02-11 (4).jpg|thumb|The Bandy team GAIS preparing to defend their goal against a corner stroke in 2012]]

====First national bandy league====
The first national bandy league in modern history was started in Sweden in 1902.<ref name=SBF/>

====Bandy in the Nordic Games====
Bandy was played at the [[Nordic Games]] in both [[Stockholm]] and [[Oslo|Kristiania]] (present day [[Oslo]]) in 1901, 1903, 1905, 1909, [[1913 Nordic Games|1913]], 1917, 1922 and 1926, and between Swedish, Finnish and Russian teams at similar games in [[Helsinki]] in 1907.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.finbandy.fi/fi/?page_id=2002|publisher=Finnish Bandy Association|title=The Finnish Bandy Federation, in English|access-date=20 April 2014}}</ref> [[Nordic Games#Bandy results|Bandy appeared as a sport in all eight editions of the Nordic Games]] from 1901 to 1926.

====European Bandy Championships====
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Some sources describe a [[1913 European Bandy Championships]] as having been held in February 1913, in [[St. Moritz, Switzerland]], at the same time as the bandy tournament at the [[1913 Nordic Games]]. However, this European Championship tournament likely never happened, or is a conflation of titles, since no contemporary sources have been found. Still, in 2014, a [[four nation bandy tournament in 2014|Four Nation Bandy tournament]] was held in [[Davos|Davos, Switzerland]], as a centenary celebration of the alleged 1913 European Bandy Championships.

====Highest altitude====
The highest altitude where bandy has been played is in [[Khorugh]], the capital of the [[Tajikistan|Tajik]] autonomous province of [[Gorno-Badakhshan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bandynet.ru/v1/node/14931|title="Опубликован календарь матчей турнира по хоккею с мячом Азиады-2011"|publisher=bandynet.ru|author=Boris Fominykh|date=15 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221111439/https://bandynet.ru/v1/node/14931 |archive-date=21 February 2015 }}</ref> Khorugh is situated {{convert|2,200|m|ft|abbr=off}} above sea level in the Pamir Mountains.

====World Championships and Russian performance====
[[File:Bandy pictogram.svg|thumb|A bandy pictogram]]
Since the 1950s, when the Soviet Union ended its isolation and started to take part in international sports events, there has been a reason to play [[Bandy World Championship|world championships]]. The International Bandy Federation was founded in 1955 and the first world championships were played in 1957 with the Soviet Union and then Russia (as its successor country in 1993) almost consistently in a top position in the sport of bandy alongside Sweden. Finland has won once, in 2004.

In a similar fashion, Russia, along with Sweden, has emerged as one of the two dominant women's bandy nations internationally in the [[Women's Bandy World Championship]].

====Women's bandy====
Women's bandy uses the exact same rules as men,{{citation needed|date=November 2022}} but the women's game is played separately. Women have been playing bandy since the sport was originally developed.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}} Although there were several attempts in the early part of the 19th century to organize bandy leagues for women's teams,{{where|date=November 2022}} regular leagues only started in the 1970s in Sweden and Finland and then later in the 1980s in Norway and the Soviet Union.

====Bandy moving indoors====
Starting in the 1980s and increasingly since the turn of the millennium, more and more indoor arenas for bandy have been built (often as joint arenas to be used also for football or speed skating). The use of indoor arenas makes the [[Effects of weather on sport|effects of the weather on a game]] virtually insignificant, something which earlier always have been a factor to consider for the teams and the audiences. However, unlike some other sports, bandy is still the same game with the same rules indoors or outdoors and no changes are made to the rules depending on whether there's a roof overhead or not. Many games, even in the highest leagues, are still played outdoors. In Sweden there are more indoor arenas than in all other countries combined.