2003 IIHF Women's World Championships

none IIHF Women's World Championship 2003 Latvia Italy Slovenia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Janez Drnovšek ihw 2001 2004 The Top Division of the 2003 IIHF Women's World Championship was set to be held in Beijing, China, from April 4 to 9, 2003. However, it was cancelled due to the global SARS outbreak. The teams from Russia, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland were already in China, while the American and Finnish teams were awaiting word on whether they should travel when the IIHF indicated that the Championship was to be postponed or even cancelled.Press release from the IIHF on SARS The move to cancel was a logical one, as the Canadians were under a government order not to travel at all at that time.Summary from passionhockey.com Only the Top Division event was cancelled, as the lower divisions still had their tournaments. The Division I tournament was held in Ventspils, Latvia from March 9 to 15. The Division II tournament was held in Lecco, Italy from March 31 to April 6. This was the eighth edition of such a series of women's ice hockey world championship tournaments. Top Division Postponed, then cancelled. Groups for this division were seeded for 2004 based on the 2003 IIHF World Ranking instead of the normal practise of using their most recent finish. Division I The Division I tournament was held in Ventspils, Latvia from March 9 to 15. main WDL P n 2 JPN JPN KAZ KAZ CZE CZE FRA FRA LAT LAT PRK PRK 5 0 0 23 6 3 1 1 20 7 3 0 2 15 22 2 1 2 9 9 1 0 4 7 16 0 0 5 10 24 green1 P complete IIHF Japan was promoted to the 2004 IIHF Women's World Championship. #eeeeee 09 March 2003 PRK 2–6 JPN #eeeeee 09 March 2003 LAT 1–6 KAZ #eeeeee 09 March 2003 FRA 1–4 CZE #eeeeee 10 March 2003 KAZ 4–1 PRK #eeeeee 10 March 2003 JPN 2–1 FRA #eeeeee 10 March 2003 LAT 1–2 CZE #eeeeee 12 March 2003 KAZ 3–3 FRA #eeeeee 12 March 2003 JPN 8–3 CZE #eeeeee 12 March 2003 LAT 5–2 PRK #eeeeee 13 March 2003 CZE 0–7 KAZ #eeeeee 13 March 2003 PRK 0–3 FRA #eeeeee 13 March 2003 LAT 0–5 JPN #eeeeee 15 March 2003 CZE 6–5 PRK #eeeeee 15 March 2003 LAT 0–1 FRA #eeeeee 15 March 2003 KAZ 0–2 JPN Statistics Scoring leaders Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-KAZ Natalya Yakovchuk5741128KAZ Yekaterina Maltseva5561128JPN Hanae Kubo55510107JPN Yuki Togawa544864CZE Drahomira Fialova56062−4JPN Masako Sato533606CZE Zuzana Kralova533661PRK Hong Pong Hwa524651KAZ Yelena Shtelmaister515628PRK Choe Jong Sun54154−1 Goaltending leaders Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%JPN Yuka Oda280:2461281.2895.31KAZ Natalya Trunova299:5671361.4094.85FRA Nolwenn Rousselle299:5091441.8093.75LAT Lolita Andrisevska279:11161633.4490.18CZE Radka Lhotska213:4613863.6584.88 Division II Division II tournament was held in Lecco, Italy from March 31 to April 6. main WDL P n 2 NOR NOR DEN DEN SVK SVK ITA ITA NED NED GBR GBR 4 1 0 24 9 3 1 1 16 13 2 2 1 23 7 2 0 3 13 21 1 1 3 8 18 0 1 4 12 28 green1 P complete IIHF Norway is promoted to the 2004 Division I tournament. #eeeeee 31 March 2003 GBR 1–8 SVK #eeeeee 31 March 2003 DEN 4–1 NED #eeeeee 31 March 2003 ITA 2–4 NOR #eeeeee 01 April 2003 SVK 1–2 DEN #eeeeee 01 April 2003 NED 0–3 ITA #eeeeee 01 April 2003 NOR 8–3 GBR #eeeeee 03 April 2003 GBR 4–4 DEN #eeeeee 03 April 2003 NED 1–7 NOR #eeeeee 03 April 2003 SVK 10–0 ITA #eeeeee 04 April 2003 NOR 2–2 SVK #eeeeee 04 April 2003 DEN 5–4 ITA #eeeeee 04 April 2003 NED 4–2 GBR #eeeeee 06 April 2003 SVK 2–2 NED #eeeeee 06 April 2003 NOR 3–1 DEN #eeeeee 06 April 2003 ITA 4–2 GBR Statistics Scoring leaders Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-SVK Nikoleta Celarova553866DEN Tine Christoffersen Perry5347167DEN Sofie Lund551607NOR Line Bialik Olen551626NOR Helene Martinsen542643ITA Sabina Florian542640NOR Hege Ask542666SVK Ivana Gajdosova524662GBR Angela Taylor5415121SVK Zuzana Moravčíková532526NOR Trine Martens532524 Goaltending leaders Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%SVK Zuzana Tomcikova150:073711.2095.77NED Helena Kysela179:446962.0093.75SVK Andrea Risova149:234611.6193.44NOR Line Kuvas240:0081192.0093.28DEN Birgitte Andersen296:27121332.4390.98 Division III The Division III tournament was held in Maribor, Slovenia from March 25 to 31. main WDL P n 2 AUS AUS SLO SLO BEL BEL HUN HUN RSA RSA ROU ROU 4 1 0 34 7 3 2 0 20 8 2 1 2 10 12 1 1 3 5 14 1 1 3 7 23 1 0 4 11 23 green1 P complete IIHF Australia is promoted to the 2004 Division II tournament. #eeeeee 25 March 2003 HUN 0–2 BEL #eeeeee 25 March 2003 ROU 6–1 RSA #eeeeee 25 March 2003 SVN 4–4 AUS #eeeeee 26 March 2003 AUS 7–0 HUN #eeeeee 26 March 2003 BEL 3–1 ROU #eeeeee 26 March 2003 SVN 6–1 RSA #eeeeee 28 March 2003 BEL 1–3 RSA #eeeeee 28 March 2003 AUS 9–1 ROU #eeeeee 28 March 2003 SVN 1–0 HUN #eeeeee 29 March 2003 RSA 0–8 AUS #eeeeee 29 March 2003 HUN 3–2 ROU #eeeeee 29 March 2003 SVN 2–2 BEL #eeeeee 31 March 2003 RSA 2–2 HUN #eeeeee 31 March 2003 AUS 6–2 BEL #eeeeee 31 March 2003 SVN 7–1 ROU Statistics Scoring leaders Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-SLO Jasmina Rosar58816411AUS Stephanie Boxall59615020SLO Ina Prezelj56511611AUS Melissa Bibby5729414SLO Anja Erzen5426010ROM Magdolna Dobandi532501AUS Rachel White532527RSA Nadia Kemp53252−7AUS Lisa McMahon523525BEL Leen De Decker531441 Goaltending leaders Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%AUS Ashleigh Sluga120:001240.5095.83HUN Eszter Kokenyesi260:00101612.3193.79BEL Celine Massez279:48111412.3692.20SLO Urska Potocnik280:008931.7191.40AUS Emma Reid180:006502.0088.00 References 30em External links IIHF index for all 2003 tournaments Summary from the Women's Hockey Net Detailed summary from passionhockey.com World Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by China Category:IIHF Women's World Championship Category:2003 in Beijing Category:Women's ice hockey competitions in China Category:Sports competitions in Beijing Category:Women's sports competitions in Latvia Category:2003 in Chinese women's sport Category:Cancelled ice hockey competitions Category:April 2003 sports events in Asia