The 1999

IIHF Women's World Championships The IIHF Women's World Championship is the premier international women's tournament in ice hockey. It is governed by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The official world competition was first held in 1990, with four more champions ...

was held between March 8–14, 1999, in

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and

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in Finland. Team Canada won their fifth consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the

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. 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.

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picked up their fifth consecutive bronze medal, with a win over

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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

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were joined by three qualifiers. *Top five at the Olympics: ** ** ** ** ** *Qualifiers from world tournaments: ** - Final Qualification group A winner ** - Final Qualification group B winner ** - Won playoff against for final spot

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

Group A

Standings

Results

All times local

Group B

Standings

Results

All times local

Playoff round

Consolation round 5–8 place

Consolation round 7–8 place

Consolation round 5–6 place

Final round

Semifinals

Match for third place

Final

Champions

Scoring leaders

Goaltending leaders

Final standings

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

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in the town of

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. won the tournament defeating in the final 7-1 to win the competition and to ensure their Promotion to the main World Championship in 2000.

Directorate Awards

*Goalie: Sami Jo Small, (Canada) *Defender: Kirsi Hanninen, (Finland) *Forward: Jenny Schmidgall, (United States)Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009-10, p.542, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada,

References

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External links

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