2022 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships
The 2022 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships was the 85th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, only teams in the Championship division had participated in 2021, so the standard system of promotion and relegation between divisions and groups was not implemented; for 2022, each team remained at the level they had been assigned for the 2021 competition (due to the pandemic, this was actually a carry-over of the outcome of the 2019 competition).On February 28, 2022, the IIHF suspended Top Division teams Russia and Belarus from the tournament due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine[1] and replaced them with Division I sides France and Austria.[2] As a result, multiple teams in lower divisions were promoted to fill vacancies.[8][13] The tournament was played in Cape Town, South Africa, from 13 to 18 March 2022.
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