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The 1990 IIHF Women's World Championships was an international women's ice hockey competition held at Civic Centre in
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(now renamed TD Place Arena) from March 19 to 25, in 1990. This was the first IIHF-sanctioned international tournament in women's ice hockey and is the only major international tournament in women's ice hockey to allow bodychecking.Kelly, p. 89. Full contact bodychecking was allowed with certain restrictions near the boards. The intermissions between periods were twenty minutes instead of fifteen. This has since been changed to the usual fifteen minutes. The Canadian team won the gold medal, the
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won silver, and
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won bronze. Team
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had won the first IIHF European Women’s Championship the previous year (1989), in
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and Ratingen,
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. Canada's Fran Rider helped to organize the championships without the financial support from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (now known as Hockey Canada). The tournament drew strong international attention. The gold medal game was attended by 8,784 people – at the time the largest ever audience for a women's hockey game – and drew over a million viewers on television. For marketing purposes, the
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decided the Canadian national team should wear pink and white uniforms instead of the expected red and whiteKelly p. 88. and released a related film called, "Pretty in Pink". While the experiment only lasted for this tournament, Ottawa was taken over by a "pink craze" during the championships. Restaurants had pink-coloured food on special, and pink became a popular colour for flowers and bow ties.


Qualification tournament

The
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and Asian representative
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, qualified automatically.Andria Hunte
Women's Hockey Net page on the IIHF World Women's Championships
accessed July 16, 2006.
The 1989 European Women's Ice Hockey Championship served as the qualification tournament for this championship. The top five finishers in the top pool qualified. They were
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. U.S. team members ranged in age from 17 to 30 and included high school and college players, a law student and a construction worker.


Venue

The tournament took place in Canada at the Civic Centre in Ottawa, now renamed, TD Place Arena.


Final tournament


Group stage


Group A


Group B


Consolation round


5–8 place


7–8 place


5–6 place


Final round


Semifinals


3–4 place


Final


Rankings and statistics


Final rankings

# # # # # # # #


Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals. Canada's Dawn McGuire was named MVP of the gold medal game.


Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list. ''TOI = Time On Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO =
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Bodychecking

This is the only major international tournament in women's ice hockey to allow bodychecking.Kelly, p. 89. Bodychecking rules allowed for full-contact checking, with certain limitations along the boards. Before the tournament, bodychecking had been allowed in women's ice hockey in Europe and North America though Canada had begun to gradually eliminate the tactic from their women's ice hockey programs in the mid-1980's, with contact having already been banned at all national women's ice hockey tournaments in Canada in 1983 due to the efforts of Rhonda Leeman Taylor. However, the European teams had asked for bodychecking to be included in the 1990 international tournament. After this tournament, the
International Ice Hockey Federation The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; ; ) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 84 member countries. The IIHF maintains the IIHF World Ranking based on international ice hockey to ...
disallowed bodychecking in women's ice hockey. It is currently an infraction punished with a minor or major and game misconduct penalty.
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br>Section 5, Rule 441 of Official Ice Hockey rules
p. 84 accessed July 16, 2006.


Injuries

A number of players suffered head injuries from the beginning of the tournament. Finland's Kirsi Hirvonen was "carried away with a neck injury after being cross-checked." U.S. team captain Tina Cardinale-Beauchemin's right forearm and elbow, "were a mass of purple-and-blue welts, courtesy of a slash early in the tournament." Canada's France Saint-Louis, "spent three days in a hospital after taking a stick across the throat".


Attendance

Precise attendance figures are not clear. ''
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'' in 2013 estimated that the total attendance was 13,000. However, it was reported that the gold medal game alone had a record 8,784 spectators, and that Canada's first game against Sweden had 3,578.


Broadcasts

Television broadcasts of the event was produced by Paul Graham.


See also

* IIHF World Women's Championships


Notes


References

* Malcolm G. Kelly, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Canadian Sports History and Trivia", Alpha Books, . * *


External links


Summary from the Women's Hockey Net


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