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The Federation of International Bandy (FIB) is the international governing body for the sport of bandy, including the variant called rink bandy. ==History== Bandy as we know it today has been played since the later half of the 19th Century. Rules were set up in the 1890s by the National Bandy Association in England and by the corresponding body in Russia. The Ligue International de Hockey sur Glace (LIHG) was founded on May 15, 1908 at 34 Rue de Provence in Paris, France,〔(IIHF and Paris ) International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved on 2010-02-18〕 at a time when bandy and ice hockey were seen as variants of the same game. The founders of the federation were representatives from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Bohemia (now Czech republic). However, as ice hockey became an Olympic sport while bandy did not, bandy only survived in some of the Nordic countries and Soviet Union. LIHG is now the International Ice Hockey Federation. In the 1940s, the Nordic countries Finland, Norway and Sweden set up a joint rules committee. In the early 1950s, the Soviet Union decided to break out of its isolation in international sport and started a friendly exchange with the Nordic countries. The federation was formed on 12 of February 1955 at Hotell Malmen in Stockholm, Sweden,〔(Claes-G Bengtsson 23 januari 2010 - ''Finskt i första VM-matchen'' )〕 by representatives from Finland, Norway, the Soviet Union and Sweden. The federation has had its base in Sweden since 1979. The present office is situated in Söderhamn, headed by FIB Secretary General Bo Nyman. Boris Skrynnik is the FIB President. When FIB was formed in 1955, it introduced the same rules for bandy all over the world. Especially in Russia, different rules had been used prior to this. Bandy World Championships have been organized for men since 1957 and for women since 2004. The federation was named the International Bandy Federation (IBF) between 1957 and 2001. The current name was adopted at a request from the International Olympic Committee when the IOC made bandy a "recognized sport", since the acronym IBF at the time was already in use by the International Badminton Federation (in 2006, the International Badminton Federation changed names to Badminton World Federation and now uses the acronym BWF). In 2004, FIB was fully accepted by IOC.〔()〕 The number of bandy playing nations have grown considerably in the last decades. There are 32 national members of the federation as of 2015, although the list at the homepage hasn't been updated since 2012.() The newest member is Denmark.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Federation of International Bandy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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