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Ice hockey is a competitive team sport played on ice, using ice skates and hockey sticks as tools. It consists of men's and women's divisions and is classified as an independent winter sport in international sports taxonomy. The emergence of ice hockey came later than sports like football, field hockey, and speed skating. Modern ice hockey originated in Canada. W.F. Robertson, a British student studying in Canada who was skilled at skating, adapted the field hockey he learned during his time in Britain to be played on ice, incorporating elements from lacrosse, and thus created a new ice sport—ice hockey—in 1783. On March 3, 1875, the first official ice hockey game was held at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Canada. The first European Ice Hockey Championship took place in 1910. Ice hockey was included as an official event in the 7th Olympic Games in 1920. In 1924, the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, where the Canadian team won the first gold medal in Olympic ice hockey. In 1988, the International Ice Hockey Federation decided to hold the World Women's Ice Hockey Championships regularly starting from 1990. In 1993, the International Olympic Committee decided to include women's ice hockey as an official event in the Winter Olympics starting from 1998. The National Hockey League was founded in Montreal, Canada; the International Ice Hockey Federation was established on March 15, 1908, in Paris, France, and its headquarters are now located in Zurich, Switzerland.
