1999 IIHF Women's World Championship

1999 IIHF World Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Finland
Dates March 8 - March 14
Teams 8
Venue(s) Espoo, Vantaa (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions   Canada (5th title)
Runner-up   United States
Third place   Finland
Fourth place  Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played 20
Goals scored 138 (6.9 per match)
Attendance 25,234 (1,262 per match)
Scoring leader(s) United States Jenny Schmidgall 12 points
1997
2000

The 1999 IIHF World Women's Championships was held between March 8-March 14, 1999 in the city of Espoo in Finland. Team Canada won their 5th consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the United States in a repeat of the previous four finals. 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.

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

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.[1]

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 3300272+206
2.  Sweden 32011012-24
3.  China 3102411-72
4.  Russia 3003420-160

Results

All times local

March 8, 1999
4:30 pm
United States  10 2
( 2 - 2, 4 - 0, 4 - 0)
 Russia Espoo
March 8, 1999
4:30 pm
China  1 3
 Sweden Vantaa
March 9, 1999
8:00 pm
Sweden  0 11
( 0 - 3, 0 - 4, 0 - 4)
 United States Vantaa
March 9, 1999
4:30 pm
China  3 2
 Russia Vantaa
March 11, 1999
4:30 pm
Russia  0 7
 Sweden Espoo
March 11, 1999
8:00 pm
United States  6 0
( 1 - 0, 2 - 0, 3 - 0)
 China Vantaa

Group B

Standings

Rk. Team GP W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1.  Canada 3300240+246
2.  Finland 3201161+154
3.  Germany 3102526-212
4.   Switzerland 3003422-180

Results

All times local

March 8, 1999
8:00 pm
Canada  10 0
( 2 - 0 , 6 - 0 , 2 - 0 )
  Switzerland Vantaa
March 8, 1999
8:00 pm
Finland  9 0
 Germany Espoo
March 9, 1999
4:30 pm
Germany  0 13
( 0 - 4 , 0 - 6 , 0 - 3 )
 Canada Espoo
March 9, 1999
8:00 pm
Finland  7 0
  Switzerland Espoo
March 11, 1999
8:00 pm
Switzerland   4 5
( 0 - 0 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 0 )
 Germany Vantaa
March 11, 1999
8:00 pm
Canada  1 0
 Finland Espoo

Playoff Round

Consolation Round 5-8 Place

March 12, 1999
4:30 pm
Germany  2 6
 Russia Vantaa
March 12, 1999
7:30 pm
China  3 2
  Switzerland Vantaa

Consolation Round 7-8 Place

March 14, 1999
4:00 pm
Germany  3 0
  Switzerland Vantaa

Consolation Round 5-6 Place

March 14, 1999
2:00 pm
Russia  1 4
 China Vantaa

Final round

Semi finals Finals
13 March 1999 14 March 1999
                 
     
Group A 1st  United States 3
 
Group B 2nd  Finland 1   Gold Medal Game
   Canada 3
     
   United States 1
Group B 1st  Canada 4
 
Group A 2nd  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 )
 Sweden Espoo
March 13, 1999
7:30 pm
United States  3 1
( 0 - 1 , 2 - 0 , 1 - 0)
 Finland Espoo

Match for third place

March 14, 1999
2:00 pm
Finland  8 2
 Sweden Espoo

Final

March 14, 1999
6:00 pm
Canada  3 1
 United States Espoo

Champions

 1999 IIHF World Women Championship Winners 

Canada
5th title

Scoring leaders

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-
United States Jenny Schmidgall 5571209
Canada Jayna Hefford 5561108
Finland Kirsi Hanninen 5551026
Finland Petra Vaarakallio 5371044
Finland Sari Fisk 545903
United States Karyn Bye 553826
Canada Nancy Drolet 544806
United States Cammi Granato 535809
Canada Hayley Wickenheiser 535885
United States Katie King 543726

Goaltending leaders[2]

Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%
Canada Sami Jo Small 180:001560.3398.21
Canada Kim St-Pierre 120:001340.5097.06
United States Erin Whitten 179:034721.3494.44
Finland Tuula Puputti 237:276891.5293.26
United States Laurie Beliveau 120:002231.0091.30

Final standings

Rk. Team Notes
1st  Canada
2nd  United States
3rd  Finland
4.  Sweden
5.  China
6.  Russia
7.  Germany
8.   Switzerland Relegated to the 2000 World Championships Group B

World Championship Group B

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

References

  1. detailed qualification summary
  2. Group A goaltending leaders
  3. 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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