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

1999 IIHF World Women's Championship
Pool B
Tournament details
Host country France
Venue(s)Colmar (in 1 host city)
DatesMarch 21 - March 28
Teams8
Final positions
Champions  Japan (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Games played20
Goals scored133 (6.65 per game)
Attendance13,850 (693 per game)
Scoring leader(s)Japan Masako Sato (12 points)
2000 →

The 1999 IIHF World Women's Championships Pool B were held between March 21 – March 28, 1999, in the town of Colmar in France.

This was the first year of the Pool B tournament which saw Japan win the Pool with a 7–1 final game victory over Norway to promote them to the World Championship. A third tier was played as well (called 2000 B Qualification) with six nations in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.

1999 Qualification Tournament

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

Group B contained the seven teams that failed to qualify for the main World Championships through the Qualification Process and Japan.

World Championship Group B

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.

The winning team in the tournament was promoted to the 2000 World Championship, while the bottom two teams would be relegated to the 2001 Group B Qualification tournament.

First round

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Japan 3 3 0 0 16 2 +14 6 Advanced to Final round
2  Norway 3 1 0 2 5 8 −3 2
3  Denmark 3 1 0 2 5 11 −6 2 Sent to Consolation round
4  Latvia 3 1 0 2 5 10 −5 2
Source: [citation needed]

Results

All times local

March 22, 1999
4:30 pm		Latvia 3 – 1
( 1 - 0, 1 - 0, 1 - 1)		 DenmarkColmar
Attendance: 250
March 22, 1999
8:00 pm		Norway 0 – 4
( 0 - 1 , 0 - 2, 0 - 1)		 JapanColmar
Attendance: 250
March 24, 1999
4:30 pm		Latvia 2 – 6
( 1 - 2, 0 - 1, 0 - 2)		 JapanColmar
Attendance: 200
March 24, 1999
8:00 pm		Denmark 4 – 2
( 1 - 0 , 3 - 1, 0 - 1)		 NorwayColmar
Attendance: 300
March 25, 1999
5:30 pm		Norway 3 – 0
( 3 - 0 , 0 - 0, 0 - 0)		 LatviaColmar
March 25, 1999
9:00 pm		Japan 6 – 0
( 1 - 0 , 3 - 0, 2 - 0)		 DenmarkColmar

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  France 3 2 1 0 14 3 +11 5 Advanced to Final round
2  Czech Republic 3 2 1 0 14 4 +10 5
3  Slovakia 3 1 0 2 6 8 −2 2 Sent to Consolation round
4  Netherlands 3 0 0 3 3 22 −19 0
Source: [citation needed]

Results

All times local

March 21, 1999
5:00 pm		Czech Republic 9 – 0
( 4 - 0 , 1 - 0 , 4 - 0 )		 NetherlandsColmar
Attendance: 1000
March 21, 1999
8:30 pm		France 3 – 0
( 0 - 0 , 2 - 0 , 1 - 0 )		 SlovakiaColmar
Attendance: 1300
March 23, 1999
4:30 pm		Slovakia 2 – 3
( 1 - 1 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 2 )		 Czech RepublicColmar
Attendance: 250
March 23, 1999
8:30 pm		France 9 – 1
( 4 - 1 , 2 - 0 , 3 - 0 )		 NetherlandsColmar
Attendance: 1000
March 25, 1999
10:30 am		Netherlands 2 – 4
( 0 - 0 , 1 - 4 , 1 - 0 )		 SlovakiaColmar
Attendance: 1350
March 25, 1999
2:00 pm		Czech Republic 2 – 2
( 0 - 0 , 2 - 1 , 0 - 1 )		 FranceColmar
Attendance: 1350

Playoff round

Consolation round 5–8 place

March 27, 1999
10:30 am		Denmark 9 – 1
( 2 - 1 , 4 - 0 , 3 - 0 )		 NetherlandsColmar

Netherlands relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.

March 27, 1999
2:00 pm		Latvia 8 – 0
( 2 - 0 , 5 - 0 , 1 - 0 )		 SlovakiaColmar

Slovakia relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.

Consolation round 7–8 place

March 28, 1999
9:30 am		Slovakia 8 – 7
( 5 - 4 , 1 - 1 , 2 - 2 )		 NetherlandsColmar

Consolation round 5–6 place

March 28, 1999
1:00 pm		Denmark 3 – 5
( 0 - 2 , 1 - 1 , 2 - 2 )		 LatviaColmar

Final round

Semi finals
27 March 1999 		Finals
28 March 1999
      
A1  Japan 2
B2  Czech Republic 1
 Japan 7
 Norway 1
B1  France 2
A2  Norway 3 Bronze Medal Game
 France 5
 Czech Republic 4

Semifinals

March 27, 1999
5:30 pm		Japan 2 – 1
( 1 - 0 , 1 - 1 , 0 - 0 )		 Czech RepublicColmar
March 27, 1999
9:00 pm		France 2 – 3
( 1 - 2 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 1 )		 NorwayColmar

Match for third place

March 28, 1999
4:30 pm		France 5 – 4
( 2 - 3 , 1 - 0 , 2 - 1 )		 Czech RepublicColmar

Final

March 28, 1999
8:00 pm		Japan 7 – 1
( 2 - 1 , 3 - 0 , 2 - 0 )		 NorwayColmar

Champions

 1999 IIHF World Women Championship Pool B winners 

Japan
1st title

Scoring leaders

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-
Japan Masako Sato 5 8 4 12 4 6
France Gwenola Personne 5 2 9 11 2 13
France Christin Duchamp 4 7 3 10 2 14
Latvia Inese Geca-Miljone 5 7 3 10 4 1
Czech Republic Zuzana Králová 5 4 6 10 8 7
Latvia Iveta Koka 5 3 7 10 2 5
Japan Hanae Kubo 5 4 4 8 2 5
Japan Etsuko Wada 5 4 4 8 4 3
Japan Aki Tsuchida 5 2 5 7 8 5
France Deborah Iszraelewicz 5 5 1 6 2 13

Goaltending leaders

[1]

Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%
Japan Yuka Oda 261:51 3 72 0.69 95.83
Latvia Lolita Andrisevska 292:02 12 178 2.47 93.26
Czech Republic Ludmila Nelibová 290:58 11 126 2.27 91.27
Norway Hege Moe 175:11 11 102 3.77 89.22
Netherlands Desiree Jacobs 149:45 17 135 6.81 87.41

Final standings

Rk. Team Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Japan Promoted to the 2000 World Championships
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Norway
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  France
4.  Czech Republic
5.  Latvia
6.  Denmark
7.  Slovakia Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Group B Qualification
8.  Netherlands Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Group B Qualification

2000 Qualification Tournament

Six additional nations played in two regional qualifiers for entry into the 2000 world championship group B. Both groups were played in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, with Group B being a best two out of three.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Italy 3 3 0 0 19 3 +16 6
2  Great Britain 3 2 0 1 32 5 +27 4
3  Hungary 3 1 0 2 8 17 −9 2
4  South Africa 3 0 0 3 1 35 −34 0
Source: [citation needed]

Italy qualified to 2000 World Championship Group B .

19 March 1999Hungary 6-0
(1-0,3-0,2-0)		 South Africa
19 March 1999Italy 4-1
(0-0,1-1,3-0)		 Great Britain
20 March 1999Hungary 1-8
(0-3,1-4,0-1)		 Italy
20 March 1999South Africa 0-22
(0-8,0-2,0-12)		 Great Britain
21 March 1999South Africa 1-7
(0-0,1-3,0-4)		 Italy
21 March 1999Hungary 1-9
(0-1,1-5,0-3)		 Great Britain

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Kazakhstan 2 2 0 0 9 3 +6 4
2  North Korea 2 0 0 2 3 9 −6 0
Source: [citation needed]

Kazakhstan qualified to 2000 World Championship Group B .

19 March 1999North Korea 3-4 Kazakhstan
21 March 1999Kazakhstan 5-0
(forfeit)		 North Korea

Scoring leaders

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-
United Kingdom Michelle Smith 3 7 8 15 0 11
United Kingdom Louise Wheeler 3 5 9 14 0 11
United Kingdom Teresa Lewis 3 6 6 12 4 6
Italy Maria Leitner 3 5 3 8 0 3
United Kingdom Claire Oldfield 3 5 2 7 4 7

References

  1. ^ Group B goaltending leaders
  • Duplacey, James (1998). Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Total Sports. pp. 487–9. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9.