1999 IIHF Women's World Championship

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1999 IIHF World Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host country Finland
DatesMarch 8–14
Officially opened byMartti Ahtisaari
Teams8
Venue(s)Espoo, Vantaa (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg Canada (5th title)
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg United States
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg Finland
Fourth place Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played20
Goals scored138 (6.9 per match)
Attendance25,234 (1,262 per match)
Scoring leader(s)United States Jenny Schmidgall 12 points
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2000 →

The 1999 IIHF World Women's Championships was held between March 8–14, 1999, in the city of Espoo in Finland. Team Canada won their fifth consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the United States. Canada skated to a solid 3–1 victory in the final to take the gold with a solid performance that saw them winning all five games.[1]

Finland picked up their fifth consecutive bronze medal, with a win over Sweden who had their strongest performance since 1992.

Qualification[]

Main article: 1999 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships Qualification

The 1999 tournament created the format that has remained to the present, as the World Championships was greatly expanded to incorporate the European Championships and the Pacific Qualification Tournaments. There were a series of Qualification Tournaments Held to assign teams places in this first year, with the standard Promotion and Relegation model following after that. The top five nations from the Nagano Olympics were joined by three qualifiers.[2]

World Championship Group A[]

The eight participating teams were divided up into two seeded groups as below. The teams played each other once in a single round robin format. The top two teams from the group proceeded to the Final Round, while the remaining teams played in the Consolation Round.

First round[]

     Teams proceed to Final round
     Teams sent to Consolation round

Group A[]

Standings[]

Rk. Team GP W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1.  United States 3 3 0 0 27 2 +20 6
2.  Sweden 3 2 0 1 10 12 -2 4
3.  China 3 1 0 2 4 11 -7 2
4.  Russia 3 0 0 3 4 20 -16 0

Results[]

All times local

March 8, 1999
4:30 pm		United States 10 – 2
( 2 - 2, 4 - 0, 4 - 0)		 RussiaEspoo
March 8, 1999
4:30 pm		China 1 – 3 SwedenVantaa
March 9, 1999
8:00 pm		Sweden 0 – 11
( 0 - 3, 0 - 4, 0 - 4)		 United StatesVantaa
March 9, 1999
4:30 pm		China 3 – 2 RussiaVantaa
March 11, 1999
4:30 pm		Russia 0 – 7 SwedenEspoo
March 11, 1999
8:00 pm		United States 6 – 0
( 1 - 0, 2 - 0, 3 - 0)		 ChinaVantaa

Group B[]

Standings[]

Rk. Team GP W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1.  Canada 3 3 0 0 24 0 +24 6
2.  Finland 3 2 0 1 16 1 +15 4
3.  Germany 3 1 0 2 5 26 -21 2
4.   Switzerland 3 0 0 3 4 22 -18 0

Results[]

All times local

March 8, 1999
8:00 pm		Canada 10 – 0
( 2 - 0 , 6 - 0 , 2 - 0 )		  SwitzerlandVantaa
March 8, 1999
8:00 pm		Finland 9 – 0 GermanyEspoo
March 9, 1999
4:30 pm		Germany 0 – 13
( 0 - 4 , 0 - 6 , 0 - 3 )		 CanadaEspoo
March 9, 1999
8:00 pm		Finland 7 – 0  SwitzerlandEspoo
March 11, 1999
8:00 pm		Switzerland  4 – 5
( 0 - 0 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 0 )		 GermanyVantaa
March 11, 1999
8:00 pm		Canada 1 – 0 FinlandEspoo

Playoff Round[]

Consolation Round 5-8 Place[]

March 12, 1999
4:30 pm		Germany 2 – 6 RussiaVantaa
March 12, 1999
7:30 pm		China 3 – 2  SwitzerlandVantaa

Consolation Round 7-8 Place[]

March 14, 1999
4:00 pm		Germany 3 – 0  SwitzerlandVantaa

Consolation Round 5-6 Place[]

March 14, 1999
2:00 pm		Russia 1 – 4 ChinaVantaa

Final round[]

  Semi finals
13 March 1999 		    Finals
14 March 1999
                 
  A1  United States 3   Gold Medal Game
  B2  Finland 1    
       Canada 3
       United States 1
  B1  Canada 4    
  A2  Sweden 1   Bronze Medal Game
 
 Finland 8
   Sweden 2

Semifinals[]

March 13, 1999
2:00 pm		Canada 4 – 1
( 1 - 0 , 1 - 1 , 2 - 0 )		 SwedenEspoo
March 13, 1999
7:30 pm		United States 3 – 1
( 0 - 1 , 2 - 0 , 1 - 0)		 FinlandEspoo

Match for third place[]

March 14, 1999
2:00 pm		Finland 8 – 2 SwedenEspoo

Final[]

March 14, 1999
6:00 pm		Canada 3 – 1 United StatesEspoo

Champions[]

 1999 IIHF World Women Championship Winners 

Canada
5th title

Scoring leaders[]

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-
United States Jenny Schmidgall 5 5 7 12 0 9
Canada Jayna Hefford 5 5 6 11 0 8
Finland Kirsi Hanninen 5 5 5 10 2 6
Finland Petra Vaarakallio 5 3 7 10 4 4
Finland Sari Fisk 5 4 5 9 0 3
United States Karyn Bye 5 5 3 8 2 6
Canada Nancy Drolet 5 4 4 8 0 6
United States Cammi Granato 5 3 5 8 0 9
Canada Hayley Wickenheiser 5 3 5 8 8 5
United States Katie King 5 4 3 7 2 6

Goaltending leaders[]

Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%
Canada Sami Jo Small 180:00 1 56 0.33 98.21
Canada Kim St-Pierre 120:00 1 34 0.50 97.06
United States Erin Whitten 179:03 4 72 1.34 94.44
Finland Tuula Puputti 237:27 6 89 1.52 93.26
United States 120:00 2 23 1.00 91.30

[3]

Final standings[]

Rk. Team Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Canada
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Finland
4.  Sweden
5.  China
6.  Russia
7.  Germany
8.   Switzerland Relegated to the 2000 World Championships Group B

World Championship Group B[]

Main article: 1999 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (Lower Divisions)

In addition to the main World Championships, this year saw the first running of World Championship Group B, which replaced the European Championships. Eight further teams played in this competition, hosted by France in the town of Colmar.  Japan won the tournament defeating  Norway in the final 7-1 to win the competition and to ensure their Promotion to the main World Championship in 2000.

Directorate Awards[]

  • Goalie: Sami Jo Small, (Canada)
  • Defender: Kirsi Hanninen, (Finland)
  • Forward: Jenny Schmidgall, (United States)[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "1999 - IIHF Women's World Championship".
  2. ^ detailed qualification summary
  3. ^ Group A goaltending leaders
  4. ^ Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009-10, p.542, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6

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