Following the IIHF congress, Latvian Hockey Federation's President Kirovs Lipmans resigned.
Denmark has never hosted the IIHF Hockey World Championship. The 2018 championship will take place in Copenhagen and Herning.
The 2015 Hockey World Championship will be held in the Czech Republic's Ostrava and Prague, the 2016 championship in St. Petersburg, and the 2017 championship in Cologne and Paris.
