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1953 Roller Hockey World Cup

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Host country
  
Switzerland

Champions
  
Italy (1st title)

Venue(s)
  
1 (in 1 host city)

Runners-up
  
Portugal

Dates
  
29 May 1953 (1953-05-29)– 6 June 1953 (1953-06-06)

Teams
  
13 (from 3 confederations)

The 1953 Roller Hockey World Cup was the ninth roller hockey world cup, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Patinage a Roulettes (now under the name of Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports). It was contested by 13 national teams (11 from Europe, 1 from Africa and for the first time, 1 from South America) and it is also considered the 1953 European Roller Hockey Championship (despite the presences of Egypt and Brazil). All the games were played in the city of Geneva, in Switzerland, the chosen city to host the World Cup. Also for the first time there was a two-group stage, with the first two teams from each group qualifying to a final-four group.

4th to 12th play-offs

11th place play-off
9th place play-off
7th place play-off
5th place play-off
  • France classified in 9th place, by greater goal average in the group phase.
  • References

    1953 Roller Hockey World Cup Wikipedia