{"id":558981,"date":"2026-07-11T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=558981"},"modified":"2026-07-11T19:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:32:37","slug":"aliaksandr-bahdanovich-re-elected-as-head-of-belarusian-ice-hockey-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/aliaksandr-bahdanovich-re-elected-as-head-of-belarusian-ice-hockey-federation","title":{"rendered":"Aliaksandr Bahdanovich Re-Elected as Head of Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation (BIHF) held its reporting and election conference in Minsk, where <b>Aliaksandr Bahdanovich<\/b> was re-elected as chairman of the organisation for a new four-year term.<\/p>\n<p>Bahdanovich has headed the BIHF since 2021. At the conference, he presented a report on the federation&#8217;s work over the past season.<\/p>\n<p>Participants also reviewed the results of the hockey year. In addition, the BIHF recalled that following a decision by the congress of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Belarus&#8217; junior national team (under 18), as well as the women&#8217;s senior and junior national teams, will be allowed to compete in world championships from the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Ahead of our teams&#8217; return to the international arena, a great deal of work lies ahead in preparing them and planning competitive practice. I would also like to thank the Association members for their trust and for the opportunity to continue developing hockey in our country as federation chairman, but I understand that this means even higher demands on myself and on our future work&#8221;<\/i>, Bahdanovich said.<\/p>\n<p>As the BIHF <a href=\"https:\/\/hockey.by\/news\/sobytie\/news436322.html\">reported<\/a>, plans for the next season were outlined at the conference. The federation said it intended to continue working on developing the domestic championship, training young hockey players, developing women&#8217;s hockey and changing the format of the junior Federation Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation (BIHF) held its reporting and election conference in Minsk, where Aliaksandr Bahdanovich was re-elected as chairman of the organisation for a new four-year term. Bahdanovich has headed the BIHF since 2021. At the conference, he presented a report on the federation&#8217;s work over the past season. Participants also reviewed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":558980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a527029869ed.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Aliaksandr Bahdanovich Re-Elected as Head of Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558981","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=558981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}