Ice hockey lion in full speed

Ken Nikander designed special postage stamp

Mr Ken Nikander designed a euro 0.65 special stamp for the Ice Hockey World Championships organised this spring, depicting the lion mascot of the games. This lion in blue and white game wear is in full speed: it is just sliding to the red face-off circle, having shot the puck to the left bottom corner. The puck has a golden text "MM2003VM". The rink is also depicted on the margins of the stamp sheet. The lion mascot was designed for the games by Mr Kimmo Torvinen.

Ice Hockey World Championships 2003

The Ice Hockey World Championships 2003 are played in Helsinki, Tampere and Turku from 26 April to 11 May 2003. Altogether 56 games will be played. Sixteen teams participate.

Important sport event

The Ice Hockey World Championships is one of the biggest sport events in the world, when measured with the amount of spectators: some 450,000 spectators will be watching the games on site, and approximately 560 million people in 50 countries will watch the games on TV.
Postage stamp issue: Finland, March 2003