Ice Hockey World Champs to Launch Official Website
The Official IIHF World Championship www..ihwc.net is to be launched on 18th April, a week ahead of the start of this year’s World Championship in Finland.
The event is being staged in Helsinki,Turku and Tampere from 26 th April – 11 th May.
The website,which has gone from strength to strength since it was introduced in 2000,has grown quickly into
one of the most attractive and professional websites in sport.It received 4.1 million hits achieved in 2000,rising
to over seven million hits in 2001,an increase of more than 60%.The 2002 edition of the website -for last year ’s
World Championships in Sweden -was another great success,with more than 180,000 unique visitors and
approximately 13 million page impressions over the two weeks of competition.
Four dedicated Ice Hockey experts from North America and Europe and six sports photographers will be
responsible for providing comprehensive coverage and background information on the event and the sport.
They will open the site with previews of the 2003 event and recaps from the Division 1 A +1 B tournaments which
take place prior to the IIHF World Championship.To fulfil the high standards of the website,they will need to write
approximately 500 articles and take some 2000 photographs during the course of the event.
The site will also include a variety of entertaining applications,such as games,a Forum,Live Scores and Picture Galleries.
The website is the result of a co-operation between the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)and its long-
term marketing partner Infront Sports & Media.
Its impact has grown rapidly thanks to effective cross-promotion, such as television inserts in the world feed of the event,which is transmitted in 35 countries.There is also
advertising signage for the website at the event.
The official sponsors of the website are Skoda Auto,Tissot,Bauhaus and Bet and Win.
For further information,please contact:
Infront Sports &Media AG
John Kristick
Tel.+41-41-723 15 15
Fax.+41-41-723 15 16
info@infrontsports.com
The event is being staged in Helsinki,Turku and Tampere from 26 th April – 11 th May.
The website,which has gone from strength to strength since it was introduced in 2000,has grown quickly into
one of the most attractive and professional websites in sport.It received 4.1 million hits achieved in 2000,rising
to over seven million hits in 2001,an increase of more than 60%.The 2002 edition of the website -for last year ’s
World Championships in Sweden -was another great success,with more than 180,000 unique visitors and
approximately 13 million page impressions over the two weeks of competition.
Four dedicated Ice Hockey experts from North America and Europe and six sports photographers will be
responsible for providing comprehensive coverage and background information on the event and the sport.
They will open the site with previews of the 2003 event and recaps from the Division 1 A +1 B tournaments which
take place prior to the IIHF World Championship.To fulfil the high standards of the website,they will need to write
approximately 500 articles and take some 2000 photographs during the course of the event.
The site will also include a variety of entertaining applications,such as games,a Forum,Live Scores and Picture Galleries.
The website is the result of a co-operation between the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)and its long-
term marketing partner Infront Sports & Media.
Its impact has grown rapidly thanks to effective cross-promotion, such as television inserts in the world feed of the event,which is transmitted in 35 countries.There is also
advertising signage for the website at the event.
The official sponsors of the website are Skoda Auto,Tissot,Bauhaus and Bet and Win.
For further information,please contact:
Infront Sports &Media AG
John Kristick
Tel.+41-41-723 15 15
Fax.+41-41-723 15 16
info@infrontsports.com