Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation

CAPE TOWN - The Belgian national women's ice hockey team has once again written Belgian sports history! During the recent IIHF Women's World Championship in Division 2B, which took place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 20 to 26 February 2023, the Belgian Blades took the gold through a clean sweep beating all its opponents.

Without a doubt a remarkable achievement. After all, after gold in 2022 and therefore promoted from Division 3A, the Belgian ladies started the tournament as underdogs in the ice stadium at the foot of Table Mountain with Croatia, Australia, New Zealand, and host South Africa as successive opponents. Turkey was also in the group but had to drop out after the major earthquake...