The 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey Ladies’s World Championship begins this morning on the Adirondack Financial institution Heart in Utica, New York. Ten groups cut up into two divisions vying for the suitable to name themselves the most effective hockey group on the earth this 12 months.
The 2024 IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championship logo incorporates a navy blue goaltender silhouette in entrance of a silver and blue depiction of the Utica College Nexus Heart. Behind that’s the Utica skyline on the suitable and a row of pine bushes to the left. The emblem incorporates a purple, white, and blue motif with 4 stripes and three white stars, an apparent nod to the flag of the host United States.
Two variations of this brand exist, with the first brand (stacked vertically) proven above and a horizontal model of the identical brand under:
For this 12 months’s version, we’ve got Canada, Czechia, Finland, Switzerland, and the host (and defending champion) United States in Pool A. Pool B sees China, Denmark, Germany, Japan, and Sweden. That is the twenty second Ladies’s World Championship. No nation apart from Canada or the U.S. has claimed gold, and solely as soon as in these 22 tournaments has a group apart from these two even gained a silver (Finland in 2019).
The IIHF has used a templated design for its event logos for fairly a while now. The primary Ladies’s Hockey Championship to make use of the format was in 2007. The template makes use of the rounded rectangle form of the IIHF logo, recoloured and designed to match the host nation or area. Every brand options the event 12 months above and the event title under; the host metropolis is at all times introduced on the very backside.
LINK: IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championship Logo History
Check out the graphic under. Word that the 2020 version was cancelled as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, and tournaments weren’t held in 2010, 2014, or 2018 as a result of Winter Olympics.
The 2024 event will run for the following week and a half, with the Gold Medal sport going down on the night of Sunday, April 14th. You possibly can see the full schedule here.
