2001 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (Lower Divisions)

2001 IIHF World Women's Championship
Division I
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	March 20 - March 25
Teams	8
Venue(s)	Briançon, France (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Switzerland (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	87 (4.35 per match)
Attendance	14,527 (726 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Zuzana Kralova (5+3=8PTS)
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The 2001 IIHF World Women's Championships Division I (formerly Pool 'B') were held between March 20-March 25, 2001 in the city of Briançon, France. Switzerland won the tournament with a narrow 2-1 victory over Japan in the final.

For the third consecutive year the number of participants grew, with this year's third tier having ten nations in two groups. The two groups played independent of each other in Bucharest, Romania and Maribor, Slovenia. Initially the two group winners, Slovakia and the Netherlands, were promoted to Division I with Denmark and Norway being relegated to Division I Qualification. However, before the 2003 season was played the formation of the divisions were changed.

The women's tiers were reformatted for 2003, so there would be a top level of eight teams, and Divisions I, II, III each with 6 teams. The winner of the 2001 Division I tournament was promoted to the 2003 World Championship, replacing the nation relegated from there. The relegated team and the next five placed nations formed Division I for 2003. The bottom two teams from 2001 Division I along with the top four nations from the two qualifying tournaments formed the 2003 Division II. All remaining participants proceeded to the 2003 Division III.

World Championship Division I

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. In the placing rounds, the first place teams played each other for the promotion, while the fourth place teams were relegated.

First round

	Teams proceed to Final
	Teams relegated to Division II

Group A

Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1.	Japan	3	1	2	0	10	8	+2	4
2.	North Korea	3	1	1	1	10	14	-4	3
3.	France	3	1	1	1	7	8	-1	3
4.	Denmark	3	1	0	2	10	7	+3	2

Results

All times local

March 20, 2001
5:30pm

Denmark

8 – 2
( 3 - 0 , 1 - 2, 4 - 0)

North Korea

Parc 1326
Attendance: 451

March 20, 2001
8:30pm

France

3 – 3
( 1 - 2 , 2 - 0 , 0 - 1)

Japan

Parc 1326
Attendance: 1812

March 21, 2001
4:30pm

Japan

4 – 4
( 0 - 0 , 4 - 1, 0 - 3)

North Korea

Parc 1326
Attendance: 409

March 21, 2001
8:00pm

Denmark

1 – 2
( 0 - 0 , 1 - 2 , 0 - 0)

France

Parc 1326
Attendance: 1592

March 23, 2001
11:30am

Japan

3 – 1
( 1 - 0 , 0 - 0, 2 - 1 )

Denmark

Parc 1326
Attendance: 413

March 23, 2001
2:30pm

North Korea

4 – 2
( 1 - 1 , 2 - 0 , 1 - 1 )

France

Parc 1326
Attendance: 1867

Group B

Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1.	Switzerland	3	3	0	0	16	2	+14	6
2.	Czech Republic	3	1	1	1	9	7	+2	3
3.	Latvia	3	1	1	1	6	8	-2	3
4.	Norway	3	0	0	3	2	16	-14	0

Results

All times local

March 20, 2001
11:00pm

Latvia

0 – 4
( 0 - 1 , 0 - 2 , 0 - 1 )

Switzerland

Parc 1326
Attendance: 300

March 20, 2001
4:30pm

Norway

0 – 5
( 0 - 1 , 0 - 2 , 0 - 2 )

Czech Republic

Parc 1326
Attendance: 427

March 22, 2001
4:30pm

Norway

1 – 3
( 0 - 2 , 0 - 0 , 1 - 1 )

Latvia

Parc 1326
Attendance: 513

March 22, 2001
8:00pm

Switzerland

4 – 1
( 2 - 0 , 1 - 0 , 1 - 1 )

Czech Republic

Parc 1326
Attendance: 946

March 23, 2001
5:30pm

Czech Republic

3 – 3
( 1 - 1 , 0 - 2 , 2 - 0 )

Latvia

Parc 1326
Attendance: 476

March 23, 2001
8:00pm

Switzerland

8 – 1
( 6 - 1 , 0 - 0 , 2 - 0 )

Norway

Parc 1326
Attendance: 1337

Match for seventh place

March 25, 2001
11:30am

Denmark

2 – 4
( 1 - 2 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 2 )

Norway

Parc 1326
Attendance: 319

Match for fifth place

March 25, 2001
2:30pm

Latvia

1 – 2
( 0 - 1 , 1 - 1 , 0 - 0 )

France

Parc 1326
Attendance: 1555

Match for third place

March 25, 2001
5:30pm

Czech Republic

3 – 2
(0 - 1, 1 - 0, 1 - 1, 0 - 0, 1 - 0)

North Korea

Hershey Centre
Attendance: 1030

Final

March 25, 2001
8:30pm

Switzerland

2 – 1
( 2 - 0 , 0 - 1 , 0 - 0 )

Japan

Parc 1326
Attendance: 1980

Scoring leaders

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-
Zuzana Kralova	4	5	3	8	0	1
Anne-Sofie Lund	4	6	0	6	2	2
Iveta Koka	4	4	2	6	0	3
Sandrine Ray	4	4	2	6	6	5
Kathrin Lehmann	4	3	3	5	0	6
Jeanette Marty	4	1	4	5	8	4
Simona Studentova	4	3	1	4	6	1
Han Song Nyo	4	3	1	4	8	0
Inese Geca-Miljone	4	2	2	4	4	3
Prisca Mosimann	4	2	2	4	4	5
Sophie Serre	4	2	2	4	4	–1

Goaltending leaders

Player	Mins	GA	SOG	GAA	SV%
Riitta Schaeublin	188:13	2	90	0.64	97.78
Lolita Andrisevska	240:00	10	207	2.50	95.17
Radka Lhotska	208:35	7	112	2.01	93.75
Hege Moe	100:00	4	62	2.40	93.55
Birgitte Andersen	239:16	11	169	2.76	93.49

Champions

2001 IIHF World Women Championship Pool B Winners
Switzerland 1st title

Final standings

Rk.	Team	Notes
01 !	Switzerland	Promoted to the 2003 World Championships
02 !	Japan
03 !	Czech Republic
4.	North Korea
5.	France
6.	Latvia
7.	Norway	Relegated to the 2003 World Championships Division II
8.	Denmark	Relegated to the 2003 World Championships Division II

2003 Division I Qualification

At the time these tournaments were played it was understood that the winner of each group would be promoted to Division I for 2003. With the reorganization of the lower tiers into smaller groups the winners and second place finishers of both tournaments were sent to Division II, with the remaining six nations comprising Division III.

Group A

Played in Bucharest Romania March 5–11 2001.

	Team	Games	Won	Lost	Points difference	Points
1	Netherlands	4	4	0	27 - 04	8
2	Italy	4	3	1	33 - 04	6
3	Belgium	4	2	2	12 - 16	4
4	South Africa	4	1	3	12 - 20	2
5	Romania	4	0	4	02 - 42	0

Netherlands and Italy qualified in 2003 World Championship Division II

05 March 2001

South Africa

3-4

Belgium

05 March 2001

Romania

1-14

Netherlands

06 March 2001

Italy

9-1

South Africa

06 March 2001

Romania

0-7

Belgium

08 March 2001

Romania

0-15

Italy

08 March 2001

Belgium

0-5

Netherlands

09 March 2001

Netherlands

2-1

Italy

09 March 2001

Romania

1-6

South Africa

11 March 2001

Netherlands

6-2

South Africa

11 March 2001

Italy

8-1

Belgium

Scoring leaders

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-
Maria Pepels	4	8	4	12	4	10
Nadia Kemp	4	9	1	10	2	–3
Federica Zandegiacomo	4	8	0	8	0	8
Sabrian Viel	4	4	4	8	0	10
Evelyn Bazzanella	4	2	5	7	4	5
Waltraud Kaser	4	4	2	6	4	6
Nancy Van Der Linden	4	4	2	6	22	9
Sara Verpoest	4	2	4	6	6	3
Myrthe Martens	4	4	1	5	2	9
Barbara Da Rold	4	4	1	5	4	8

Goaltending leaders

Player	Mins	GA	SOG	GAA	SV%
Helena Kysela	150:56	2	23	0.80	91.30
Michaela Mair	120:00	2	22	1.00	90.91
Ilse Vangheel	120:00	8	70	4.00	88.57
Ngoc Lam Kim	120:00	2	16	1.00	87.50
Jennifer Sharland	104:01	11	66	6.35	83.33

Group B

Played in Maribor Slovenia March 20–25, 2001.

	Team	Games	Won	Lost	Points difference	Points
1	Slovakia	4	4	0	48 - 02	8
2	Great Britain	4	3	1	29 - 06	6
3	Australia	4	2	2	13 - 15	4
4	Hungary	4	1	3	07 - 28	2
5	Slovenia	4	0	4	03 - 50	0

Slovakia and Great Britain qualified in 2003 World Championship Division II

20 March 2001

Hungary

0-12

Slovakia

20 March 2001

Slovenia

0-12

Great Britain

21 March 2001

Slovenia

2-7

Australia

21 March 2001

Great Britain

12-0

Hungary

22 March 2001

Slovakia

9-1

Australia

23 March 2001

Slovenia

0-23

Slovakia

24 March 2001

Great Britain

4-2

Australia

24 March 2001

Slovenia

1-7

Hungary

25 March 2001

Australia

3-0

Hungary

25 March 2001

Slovakia

4-1

Great Britain

Scoring leaders

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-
Michaela Durcanska	4	5	9	14	4	16
Katarina Buocikova	4	5	6	11	0	11
Bozena Kevesova	4	8	2	10	2	14
Petra Babiakova	4	6	3	9	2	12
Zuzana Moravcikova	4	5	4	9	0	14
Michelle Smith	4	6	2	8	4	9
Louise Wheeler	4	4	4	8	2	6
Lucia Petrovicova	4	2	6	8	2	19
Natalia Babonyova	4	4	3	7	0	9
Melissa Rulli	4	4	2	6	8	1

Goaltending leaders

Player	Mins	GA	SOG	GAA	SV%
Jana Tistanova	150:38	1	32	0.40	96.88
Amy Johnson	120:00	2	32	1.00	93.75
Vicky Robbins	120:00	4	54	2.00	91.11
Ashliegh Sluga	223:20	10	93	2.69	89.25
Monika Kiskartali	169:55	17	118	6.00	85.59

References

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