Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament

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The women played the preliminary round and round placement in the UBC Thunderbird Arena. Only the semi-finals, the match for the bronze medal as well as the finals were held at Canada Hockey Place. The tournament began on February 13 with the first round and ended three days before the end of the Winter Olympics, on February 25, with the finale.

For the tournament, the first six nations of the IIHF World Ranking in 2008 were automatically qualified after the World Cup. Another two participants were played in qualifying tournaments.

The best six teams in the IIHF World Ranking 2008 qualified:

  • Canada Canada
  • United States of America
  • Finland Finland
  • Sweden Sweden
  • Switzerland Switzerland
  • Russia Russia

The four qualifiers qualify:

  • People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
  • Slovakia Slovakia
  • 2.1 Group C
  • 2.2 Group D
  • 3.1 mode
  • 3.2 Preliminary 3.2.1 Group A
  • 3.2.2 Group B
  • 3.3.1 Game for 7th place
  • 3.3.2 game for 5th place
  • 3.4.1 Semi-finals
  • 3.4.2 3rd place match
  • 3.4.3 final
  • 3.7.1 medalist
  • 3.7.2 Awards

Pre-qualification

Group A

The matches in Group A of the pre-qualifying took place from 2 to 7 September 2008 at the Latvian Liepaja in the 1,700 -seat arena instead of Liepāja.

The favored team from Slovakia achieved through clear victories over the four competitors sovereign the next round of qualifying. The Latvian hosts lost already to kick off the all-important game against the eventual tournament winner and had to settle for second place. On the other was followed by Italy and Croatia. Learned the hard way during its debut at the international level had to pay the Bulgarians, which in all four games, severe defeats were added, including a 0:82 against the Slovaks. Altogether they had 192 goals in the tournament suffered, while Slovakia scored 105 hits. The record victory of the Slovaks was also the largest margin of victory in an experiment conducted by the IIHF Women play.

The best scorer the Slovakian Martina Veličková emerged with 24 points scorer of the tournament. The runners-up, followed by six teammates Veličkovás.

A total of 939 spectators attended the ten qualifying games, corresponding to an average of 93.9 per game.

Group B

The matches in Group B of the pre-qualification found from 3 to 5 September 2008 at Maribor, Slovenia in the 3000 -seat Ledna dvorana Tabor instead.

The favored and in the IIHF World Ranking of the year 2008 best -placed team from Norway reached by significant victories over the three competitors sovereign the next round of qualifying. The Slovenian hosts and disappointed, however, lost their three games clear. For a little surprise attended the Brit, who. Than participants in the World Championship Division II, who could beat the Austrians from the Division I scarce and thus secured the second place behind Norway

As best scorer inside the Austrian Denise Altmann and the Norwegian Helene Martinsen emerged, each with seven points scorer of the tournament, where Altmann case with three goals scored one more goal than Martinsen.

A total of 1,035 spectators attended the six qualifying games, corresponding to an average of 172.5 per game.

Qualification

Group C

The matches of Group C qualifying place from 6 to 9 November 2008 in the Hacker-Pschorr Arena in Bad Tölz.

For a big surprise attended the Slovaks, who had qualified only on winning the tournament in the pre- qualification for the tournament in Germany. After an opening win over the hosts and in the IIHF World Ranking the best positioned Germans, they also won the pre-decisive match against Kazakhstan, which was clear after the German victory over France after the second round of the tournament victory for the underdog. A final victory over France, she finished the tournament with three wins and spotless only one goal conceded. The Germans disappointed with defeat against Slovakia and Kazakhstan all along the line and missed in third place clearly the ambitious goal of Olympic qualification.

The best scorer the Slovakian Martina Veličková emerged with four points scorer of the tournament. Even the pre-qualifying tournament they had completed as a point best player. With three tournament matches her teammate Jana Kapustová scored the most goals.

A total of 1,068 spectators attended the six qualifying games, corresponding to an average of 178.0 per game.

Group D

The games of qualifying Group D were held to 9 November 2008 in Shanghai, China in the sports complex of the Shanghai University of Sports of 6.

After the first four games, the two of the top Division crystallized associated Chinese women and Japanese women by beating the Norwegians and Czechs as favorites to win the tournament out. Thus, it came on the final day for "Endgame " to win the group. This won the hostesses from China by a narrow 2-0 victory and secured the remaining tickets for the Olympic tournament. In the third place made ​​it the Norwegians, who had to place in the group secured only through the pre-qualifying. They defeated the Czech Republic in a tight encounter 2-1 in the shootout.

The best scorer the Chinese Rui Sun came out with nine points scorer of the tournament, including six assists. With four tournament hits the Czech Alena Polenska scored the most goals.

A total of 12,680 spectators attended the six qualifying games, corresponding to an average of 2113.3 per game.

Main Tournament

Mode

The eight teams in the Olympic Hockey Tournament were divided into the first round in two groups of four teams each. In this case, the two groups were based on the standings of the teams in the IIHF World Ranking after the World Cup in 2008 according to the following keys together:

Within the groups, the teams first played on the mode -for- each, so that each team initially played three games. The two group winners played crosswise the semifinals - ie Winner Group A against B and Second winner against Second A - the winners made ​​it to the finals. The losers of the semi-finals played in the bronze medal. The teams at the positions 3 and 4 of the first round played a Placement Round, where they also played only on the cross, the winners of these games then playing for 5th place, the losers to 7th place

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Placement Round

Game for 7th place

Match for 5th place

Final round

Semifinal

3rd Place Match

Final

Best Scorer interior

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

Best goalkeepers

Abbreviations: Sp = Games, Min = Ice Age ( in minutes), GT = Goals against, SO = shutouts, GAA = Gegentorschnitt, Sv % = quota; Fat: Turnierbestwert

Final placements

The rankings arise following criteria:

  • Locations 1 to 4: Results in the final and in the 3rd place match
  • Places 5-8: Results in the match for 5th place and in play for 7th place
  • Places 9 to 14 ( Qualification): after placement - then points, then goal difference
  • Places 15 to 21 ( pre-qualification ): after placement - then points, then goal difference

Medalist

Awards

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