{"id":546443,"date":"2026-05-28T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=546443"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:45:48","slug":"iihf-allows-three-belarusian-national-teams-to-participate-in-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/iihf-allows-three-belarusian-national-teams-to-participate-in-world-championships","title":{"rendered":"IIHF Allows Three Belarusian National Teams to Participate in World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has allowed Belarusian national teams to participate in world championships during the 2026\/2027 season. The decision concerns the men\u2019s under-18 junior national team, the women\u2019s junior national team and the women\u2019s senior national team, the Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation <a href=\"https:\/\/hockey.by\/news\/sobytie\/news434337.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s junior national team will take part in the world championship in the United States in April-May 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Federation chairman <b>Aliaksandr Bahdanovich<\/b> described the decision as <em><i>&#8220;an important and positive step for Belarusian hockey&#8221;<\/i><\/em> and expressed the intention to do <em><i>&#8220;everything possible to return all Belarusian national teams to the international arena as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has allowed Belarusian national teams to participate in world championships during the 2026\/2027 season. The decision concerns the men\u2019s under-18 junior national team, the women\u2019s junior national team and the women\u2019s senior national team, the Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation reported. The men\u2019s junior national team will take part in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":546442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a18713fc8e69.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"IIHF Allows Three Belarusian National Teams to Participate in World Championships"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-546443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}