1931
Adjusting to the crisis, participant numbers rise to 17: AUT, CZE, EST, FIN, GBR, GER, HUN, JAP, LAT, NED, NOR, POL, ROM, SWE, SWI, URS, USA. Thus we need a preliminary round of 1 match. The quarter-finalists from last year, FIN, NED, AUT, NOR, CZE, URS, GER and HUN, are exempt. The draw is: SWE-SWI. And the match:
Sweden-Switzerland 4-0 The first round proper then consists of: AUT, CZE, EST, FIN, GBR, GER, HUN, JAP, LAT, NED, NOR, POL, ROM, SWE, URS, USA. The semi-finalists from last year, FIN, NOR, URS and HUN, are seeded and cannot be drawn against each other. The draw is as follows: AUT-LAT, GBR-EST, ROM-JAP, GER-NED, HUN-CZE, SWE-URS, NOR-USA, FIN-POL. The matches:
Austria-Latvia 5-0
Britain-Estonia 3-1
Romania-Japan 0-5
Germany-Netherlands 0-5
Hungary-Czechoslovakia 5-0
Sweden-USSR 4-0
Norway-USA 7-0, unlucky draw
Finland-Poland 6-2
The quarter final consists of AUT, FIN, GBR, HUN, JAP, NED, NOR, SWE. The finalists from last year, FIN and HUN, are seeded and cannot be drawn against each other. The draw is as follows: JAP-SWE, GBR-FIN, AUT-NOR, HUN-NED. Results of the matches:
Japan-Sweden 1-4
Britain-Finland 0-6
Austria-Norway 1-6
Hungary-Netherlands 2-3
Semi-final draw: NOR-NED, SWE-FIN. Matches:
Norway-Netherlands 7-0
Sweden-Finland 0-6
Bronze final: Netherlands-Sweden 4-1
FINAL: Norway-Finland
72,7 - - (1-0) 43,0 - 42,6 (1-1) 1.30,9 - 1.27,4 (1-2) 2.22,0 - 2.18,1 (1-3) 5.41,6 - 5.19,6 (1-4) 8.43,6 - 8.40,5 (1-5) 17.57,0 -17.53,0 (1-6)
Final result 1-6, massacred
Statistics:
NOR GOLD 32x FIN GOLD 4x NED GOLD 2x URS GOLD 1911 SWE Silver 4x AUT Silver 3x GER Silver 2x HUN Silver 1930 CZE bronze 1895 CAN bronze 1897 USA bronze 1920 SWI 4th 2x LAT 4th 2x FRA 4th 1902 DEN 4th 1912 GBR 4th 1914 EST QF 5x BEL QF 3x POL QF 2x JAP QF 2x LIT QF 1927 ITA QF 1928 ROM 1R 2x