1999 IIHF Women's World Championship

The 5th World Ice Hockey Women's Championship took place from March 8 to March 14, 1999 the Finnish cities of Espoo and Vantaa instead. Canada remained unbeaten at the fifth World Cup and won his fifth title. For the first time a B- World Cup was held. The tournament was held from 28 March 1999 in the French Colmar 21. First Movers in the A group was Japan.

The title struggles of women should not be as before, held every year and every two years in the future. In addition, it should now give a classification according to groups and women's teams. To determine the particular grouping in 1998 were held qualifiers for women. Directly qualified for the A group are the first five of the Ice Hockey World Championship of Women 1997 ( Canada, USA, Finland, China, Sweden); to join three teams from the qualifier. The failed in the qualifying teams and Japan as the second best Asian team played in the B group. The previously unrecognized teams from Europe and Asia -Oceania played in two qualifications from one participant for the B- World Cup next year.

  • 2.1 Preliminary 2.1.1 Group A
  • 2.1.2 Group B
  • 2.3.1 Semi-finals
  • 2.3.2 final
  • 2.4.1 Best Scorer interior
  • 2.4.2 Best goalkeepers
  • 2.6.1 champion teams
  • 2.6.2 Title, ascent and descent
  • 3.1 Preliminary
  • 3.2 Play- Downs against relegation
  • 3.3 Play -offs for promotion
  • 3.4 final placement of the B-WC
  • 3.5 ascent and descent
  • 4.1 Qualification Europe ( in Székesfehérvár, Hungary)
  • 4.2 Qualifying Asia

A qualification for World Cup

For new grouping with the women a qualification was held prior to the World Championships. 10 teams were allowed to participate in this qualification. These were the teams ranked 6-8 Women 's World Cup 1997 ( Russia, Switzerland, Norway) - the first five of this World Cup (Canada, USA, Finland, China, Sweden ) were directly qualified for the A- group - the Sixth A- 1996 European ( Germany ), and the top six teams in the B- European Championship 1996 ( Denmark, Latvia, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands). The qualification was held in two rounds. In the first round, the teams played in the squares of 3-6 Women's B- European Championship 1996 ( Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Netherlands ) in a tournament two participants for the second qualifying round. This then met there on the remaining qualifiers. The second round was played in two groups; the two group winners were directly qualified for the A-WC, the two runners-up played a third A- WM participants. The failed in the qualifying teams then played in the B group. The first phase of qualifying was held from 27 to 29 January 1998, the second phase from 23 to 27 March 1998.

First qualifying round

Second qualifying round

A World Championship

The A World Cup was played in the Finnish cities of Espoo and Vantaa, from 8 to 14 March 1999. The Canadian team won with a 3-1 final victory over the United States the fifth world title at the fifth edition of the tournament. The bronze medal secured, the Finnish national team in the small final with a win over Sweden.

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Play -downs

Play-offs

Semifinal

Final

Statistics

Best Scorer interior

Source: IIHF Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, G = Goals, V = Assists, Pts = Points, / - = Plus / Minus, SM = penalty minutes; Fat: Turnierbestwert

Best goalkeepers

Source: IIHF Abbreviations: Sp = Games, Min = Ice Age ( in minutes), ZAT = Shots on goal, GT = Goals against, SVS = -held shots, Sv % = Shots held (in%), GTS = Gegentorschnitt, SO = shutouts; Fat: Turnierbestwert

Awards

  • Best goalkeeper: Canada Sami Jo Small
  • Best defender: Finland Kirsi Hänninen
  • Best striker: United States Jenny Schmidgall
  • Goalkeeper: Canada Sami Jo Small
  • Defense: United States Sue Merz, Finland Kirsi Hänninen
  • Attack: Canada Hayley Wickenheiser, United States Jenny Schmidgall, Jayna Hefford Canada

Final placement of the A-WC

Champion teams

Title, ascent and descent

Ice Hockey World Champion 1999 Canada Canada

B World Cup

Preliminary round

Play- Downs against relegation

Play-offs for promotion

Final placement of the B-WC

Ascent and Descent

Qualification for B World Cup 2000

Qualifying Europe ( in Székesfehérvár, Hungary)

The games were held from 19 to 21 March 1999

Qualifying Asia

North Korea renounced

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