From March 23-29th 1996, the European A Championship was held in Yaroslavl, Russia. Sweden is the 1996 European A Champion! Germany moves down to the European B Championship for 1997. Sweden, Russia, Finland, Norway and Switzerland qualify for the 1997 World Championship in Kitchener (Canada).
Over 5,000 fans attended the tournament. Russian Radio and TV coverage was present. This ECC is getting big attention! Attendance at the Switzerland-Germany game was 2300, and attendance at the Switzerland-Russia game was 4300!
23.03.96 Yaroslavl SWE-NOR 6:3(2:0,3:1,2:1) 23.03.96 Yaroslavl SWI-GER 3:2(1:0,0:1,2:1) 23.03.96 Yaroslavl RUS-FIN 3:2(0:2,2:0,1:0)!! 24.03.96 Yaroslavl SWE-GER 2:2(0:0,0:1,2:1) 24.03.96 Yaroslavl FIN-NOR 7:0(3:0,1:0,3:0) 24.03.96 Yaroslavl RUS-SWI 4:3(1:0,3:1,0:2) 26.03.96 Yaroslavl FIN-GER 8:0(2:0,3:0,3:0) 26.03.96 Yaroslavl SWE-SWI 6:3(2:1,0:1,4:1) 26.03.96 Yaroslavl RUS-NOR 5:4(1:1,1:2,3:1) 27.03.96 Yaroslavl FIN-SWI 8:0(3:0,2:0,3:0) 27.03.96 Yaroslavl NOR-GER 4:1(3:0,0:0,1:1) 27.03.96 Yaroslavl SWE-RUS 4:2(2:0,1:1,1:1) 29.03.96 Yaroslavl NOR-SWI 3:2(1:1,1:0,1:1) 29.03.96 Yaroslavl SWE-FIN 2:1(1:0,1:0,0:1) 29.03.96 Yaroslavl RUS-GER 3:2(2:0,1:2,0:0)
Team GP W T L GF:GA PTS
1. SWE 5 4 1 0 20:11 9
2. RUS 5 4 0 1 17:15 8
3. FIN 5 3 0 2 26:5 6
4. NOR 5 2 0 3 14:21 4
5. SWI 5 1 0 4 11:23 2
6. GER 5 0 1 4 7:20 1
Having 20 minutes of penalty time all in all, the Swedish Team has received the "Fair Play" Award. German girls had the second result - 40 minutes, the Finnish had the third one with 47 min. and the Russians were fourth with 48 minutes of total penalty time.
1. Ekaterina Pashkevich (Russia) - 9 (6+3) 2. Sanna Lankosaari (Finland) - 8 (7+1) 3. Catrin Lemann (Switzerland) - 7 (7+0) 4. Camilla Hille (Norway) - 7 (3+4) 4. Petra Vaarakallio (Finland) - 7 (3+4)
Goalie: Patricia Sautter (Switzerland) Forward: Sanna Lankosaari (Finland) Defense: Pernilla Burhold (Sweden)
Goalie: Irina Gashennikova (Russia) Left Defense: Johanna Ikonen (Finland) Right Defense: Anne Haanpaa (Finland) Left Wing: Asa Elfving ( Sweden) Right Wing: Sanna Lankosaari (Finland) Center Forward: Ekaterina Pashkevich (Russia)
The information in this page was provided by Nick Heim (heim@awu.id.ethz.ch) of Switzerland. Here is a link to his 1996 European A Championship Page. Here is a link to another 1996 European A Championship Page that lists the results, as well as various individual awards.
Some information was also provided by Franco Beffa (francobeffa@bluewin.ch) of Switzerland.
I'd like to express my sincere appreciation for their efforts in compiling this information.
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