Winner’s medal issued by the International Ice Hockey Federation for the Innsbruck 1964 Winter Olympics Ice Hockey World Championship. Gilt bronze, 60 mm, 97 gm, struck by Swiss medal manufacturer Huguenin. The front depicts a goalie in net and reads, “Championnats du Monde, Worlds Championships, 1964”; the reverse reads, “Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace, International Ice Hockey Federation,” with the league’s logo in the center.
Between 1920 and 1968, the Olympic hockey tournament also served as that year’s world championship for the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF); this is the IIHF gold medal awarded for the world championship held as part of the 1964 Innsbruck Olympic Games. The 1964 Olympics saw the Soviet Union win its second Olympic gold, and this medal represents their fourth IIHF world championship. This medal is equally as rare as the 1964 Olympic gold medal for ice hockey, awarded only to members of the victorious Soviet team.
