The Tournament Capital has once again lived up to its moniker. The 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship has been named the International Sport Event of the Year by the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance.
Kamloops played host to the Women’s Worlds in March 2016, the first time Hockey Canada hosted the event west of Manitoba.
Happy to say the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship won the International Sport Event of the Year Award! #Prestige #Kamloops https://t.co/m6KfIimj4W
— Tourism Kamloops (@TourismKamloops) March 21, 2017
Presented by @tourismtoronto, the #PRESTIGE recipient is: the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship #SEC17 pic.twitter.com/5XSw81MD2M
— SportEventsCongress (@SportEventsCong) March 21, 2017
Over the course of eight days, close to 40,000 hockey fans took in games at Sandman Centre and the McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre. People in more than 100 Canadian communities purchased tickets and organizers said interest from across the country exceeded expectations.
Teams represented Canada, the U.S., the Czech Republic, Japan, Finland, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland, with the U.S. finishing ahead of Canada in the final gold medal game.
The Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance’s Prestige Awards recognize events from local to national to major international championships and tournaments and honour outstanding volunteers and organizations who work to bid, host and stage sport events across Canada. Recipients were announced Tuesday during the CSTA's annual Sports Events Congress.
