Rinkball
Team sport played on ice, using sticks, ice skates, and a ball / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rinkball is a winter team sport played on ice with ice skates and is most popular in Finland, where it is known as kaukalopallo. This ball sport originated in Sweden in the 1960s and from there landed in Finland in the 1970s.
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Highest governing body | International Rinkball Federation |
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First played | 1960s; 63 years ago (1960s) Sweden |
Characteristics | |
Contact | ā Limited ā body checking illegal |
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Equipment |
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Venue | Ice rink |
Presence | |
Country or region | Finland |
Olympic | No |
Paralympic | No |
World Games | No |
The objective of a game is to score more goals than the opposing team. A bandy ball is used, but the ball is slightly smaller and blue instead of the orange or cerise used in bandy. Rinkball sticks are a sport specific design.
Rinkball combines elements of bandy, rink bandy, and ice hockey, but is now a separately organized sport after developing its own organizing bodies, codifying its own rules, and having designed its own sport-specific equipment.