Irkutsk won the right to host the bandy world championship on July 13, 2012 at the FIB executive committee meeting in Budva. Earlier the city hosted the sixth women's world championship, where Russia took second place and Sweden won. Also notable is the recent 4 to 3 victory of the Russian men's team over Sweden, after which the championship flag was ceremonially handed to Irkutsk.
Irkutsk received the right to host the World Championship on July 13, 2012, at a meeting of the executive committee of the International Bandy Federation (FIB) in the city of Budva (Montenegro). Earlier in 2012, Irkutsk hosted the sixth Women’s World Bandy Championship, in which 6 teams took part and played a single round-robin group stage. Based on the results of the group stage and the playoffs, the Russian women’s national team took second place, the Finnish women’s national team took third place, and the world champions were the athletes from Sweden. The result of the games held the day before in the Swedish city of Vänersborg was a brilliant victory for the Russian men’s national team, which in a hard-fought match defeated the Swedish national team, the hosts of the championship, 4:3. The championship flag was ceremoniously presented to Viktor Kondrashov and Vladimir Matienko after the game.Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk city administration