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

IIHF World Women's Championship 2001 Division I France March 20 - March 25 8 Briançon, France 1 ihw Switzerland 1 20 87 14527 CZE Zuzana Kralova (5+3=8PTS) 2000 2003 The 2001 IIHF World Women's Championships Division I (formerly Pool 'B') were held between March 20–25, 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 Group A main WDL QR 2 JPN JPN PRK PRK FRA FRA DEN DEN 1 2 0 10 8 1 1 1 10 14 1 1 1 7 8 1 0 2 10 7 yellow1 Advanced to Final A red1 Relegated to Division II R complete IIHF Results All times local #eeeeee March 20, 2001 5:30pm DEN 8 – 2 (3 - 0, 1 - 2, 4 - 0) PRK Parc 1326 451 #eeffff March 20, 2001 8:30pm FRA 3 – 3 (1 - 2, 2 - 0, 0 - 1) JPN Parc 1326 1812 #eeeeee March 21, 2001 4:30pm JPN 4 – 4 (0 - 0, 4 - 1, 0 - 3) PRK Parc 1326 409 #eeffff March 21, 2001 8:00pm DEN 1 – 2 (0 - 0, 1 - 2, 0 - 0) FRA Parc 1326 1592 #eeeeee March 23, 2001 11:30am JPN 3 – 1 (1 - 0, 0 - 0, 2 - 1) DEN Parc 1326 413 #eeffff March 23, 2001 2:30pm PRK 4 – 2 (1 - 1, 2 - 0, 1 - 1) FRA Parc 1326 1867 Group B main WDL QR 2 SUI SUI CZE CZE LAT LAT NOR NOR 3 0 0 16 2 1 1 1 9 7 1 1 1 6 8 0 0 3 2 16 yellow1 Advanced to Final A red1 Relegated to Division II R complete IIHF Results All times local #eeeeee March 20, 2001 11:00pm LAT 0 – 4 (0 - 1, 0 - 2, 0 - 1) SUI Parc 1326 300 #eeffff March 20, 2001 4:30pm NOR 0 – 5 (0 - 1, 0 - 2, 0 - 2) CZE Parc 1326 427 #eeeeee March 22, 2001 4:30pm NOR 1 – 3 (0 - 2, 0 - 0, 1 - 1) LAT Parc 1326 513 #eeffff March 22, 2001 8:00pm SUI 4 – 1 (2 - 0, 1 - 0, 1 - 1) CZE Parc 1326 946 #eeeeee March 23, 2001 5:30pm CZE 3 – 3 (1 - 1, 0 - 2, 2 - 0) LAT Parc 1326 476 #eeffff March 23, 2001 8:00pm SUI 8 – 1 (6 - 1, 0 - 0, 2 - 0) NOR Parc 1326 1337 Playoff round Match for seventh place #eeeeee March 25, 2001 11:30am DEN 2 – 4 (1 - 2, 1 - 0, 0 - 2) NOR Parc 1326 319 Match for fifth place #eeffff March 25, 2001 2:30pm LAT 1 – 2 (0 - 1, 1 - 1, 0 - 0) FRA Parc 1326 1555 Match for third place #FFDAB9 March 25, 2001 5:30pm CZE 3 – 2 (0 - 1, 1 - 0, 1 - 1, 0 - 0, 1 - 0) PRK Parc 1326 1030 Final #F7F6A8 March 25, 2001 8:30pm SUI 2 – 1 (2 - 0, 0 - 1, 0 - 0) JPN Parc 1326 1980 Scoring leaders Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-CZE Zuzana Kralova453801DEN Anne-Sofie Lund460622LAT Iveta Koka442603SUI Sandrine Ray442665SUI Kathrin Lehmann433506SUI Jeanette Marty414584CZE Simona Studentova431461PRK Han Song Nyo431480LAT Inese Geca-Miljone422443SUI Prisca Mosimann422445FRA Sophie Serre42244–1 Goaltending leaders Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%SUI Riitta Schaeublin188:132900.6497.78LAT Lolita Andrisevska240:00102072.5095.17CZE Radka Lhotska208:3571122.0193.75NOR Hege Moe100:004622.4093.55DEN Birgitte Andersen239:16111692.7693.49 Champions ihw 2001 IIHF World Women Championship Pool B winners Switzerland 1st Final standings Rk.Team Notes SUI Promoted to the 2003 World Championships JPN CZE 4. PRK 5. FRA 6. LAT 7. NOR Relegated to the 2003 World Championships Division II 8. DEN 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. main WDL Q 2 NED NED ITA ITA BEL BEL RSA RSA ROU ROU 4 0 0 27 4 3 0 1 33 4 2 0 2 12 16 1 0 3 12 20 0 0 4 2 42 #ccffcc A A complete IIHF Netherlands and Italy qualified in 2003 World Championship Division II #eeeeee 05 March 2001 RSA 3-4 (1-1,2-2,0-1) BEL #eeeeee 05 March 2001 ROU 1-14 (1-7,0-2,0-5) NED #eeeeee 06 March 2001 ITA 9-1 (4-0,4-1,1-0) RSA #eeeeee 06 March 2001 ROU 0-7 (0-3,0-4,0-0) BEL #eeeeee 08 March 2001 ROU 0-15 (0-4,0-8,0-3) ITA #eeeeee 08 March 2001 BEL 0-5 (0-1,0-2,0-2) NED #eeeeee 09 March 2001 NED 2-1 (2-0,0-1,0-0) ITA #eeeeee 09 March 2001 ROU 1-6 (1-1,0-4,0-1) RSA #eeeeee 11 March 2001 NED 6-2 (2-0,2-1,2-1) RSA #eeeeee 11 March 2001 ITA 8-1 (1-1,3-0,4-0) BEL Scoring leaders Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-NED Maria Pepels48412410RSA Nadia Kemp491102–3ITA Federica Zandegiacomo480808ITA Sabrian Viel4448010ITA Evelyn Bazzanella425745ITA Waltraud Kaser442646NED Nancy Van Der Linden4426229BEL Sara Verpoest424663NED Myrthe Martens441529ITA Barbara Da Rold441548 Goaltending leaders Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%NED Helena Kysela150:562230.8091.30ITA Michaela Mair120:002221.0090.91BEL Ilse Vangheel120:008704.0088.57ITA Ngoc Lam Kim120:002161.0087.50RSA Jennifer Sharland104:0111666.3583.33 Group B Played in Maribor Slovenia March 20–25, 2001. main WDL Q 2 SVK SVK GBR GBR AUS AUS HUN HUN SVN SVN 4 0 0 48 2 3 0 1 29 6 2 0 2 13 15 1 0 3 7 28 0 0 4 3 50 #ccffcc A A complete IIHF Slovakia and Great Britain qualified in 2003 World Championship Division II #eeeeee 20 March 2001 HUN 0-12 (0-3,0-5,0-4) SVK #eeeeee 20 March 2001 SVN 0-12 (0-5,0-5,0-2) GBR #eeeeee 21 March 2001 SVN 2-7 (1-3,1-1,0-3) AUS #eeeeee 21 March 2001 GBR 12-0 (4-0,5-0,3-0) HUN #eeeeee 22 March 2001 SVK 9-1 (5-1,3-0,1-0) AUS #eeeeee 23 March 2001 SVN 0-23 (0-5,0-8,0-10) SVK #eeeeee 24 March 2001 GBR 4-2 (0-1,2-0,2-1) AUS #eeeeee 24 March 2001 SVN 1-7 (0-3,0-3,1-1) HUN #eeeeee 25 March 2001 AUS 3-0 (0-0,3-0,0-0) HUN #eeeeee 25 March 2001 SVK 4-1 (1-0,1-0,2-1) GBR Scoring leaders Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-SVK Michaela Durcanska45914416SVK Katarina Buocikova45611011SVK Bozena Kevesova48210214SVK Petra Babiakova4639212SVK Zuzana Moravčíková4549014GBR Michelle Smith462849GBR Louise Wheeler444826SVK Lucia Petrovicova4268219SVK Natalia Babonyova443709AUS Melissa Rulli442681 Goaltending leaders Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%SVK Jana Tistanova150:381320.4096.88GBR Amy Johnson120:002321.0093.75GBR Vicky Robbins120:004542.0091.11AUS Ashliegh Sluga223:2010932.6989.25HUN Monika Kiskartali169:55171186.0085.59 References 30em External links Summary from the Women's Hockey Net Detailed summary from passionhockey.com Official IIHF Division I page Official IIHF Division I Qualification Group A page Official IIHF Division I Qualification Group B page Lower 2001 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (Lower Divisions) Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (Lower Divisions) Category:Briançon Category:Sport in Hautes-Alpes Category:2001 in French women's sport Category:Women's ice hockey competitions in France Category:Women's ice hockey competitions in Romania Category:Sports competitions in Bucharest Category:Women's sport in Bucharest Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Romania Category:March 2001 sports events in Europe Category:2000–01 in Romanian ice hockey Category:2001 in Romanian women's sport Category:History of Hautes-Alpes Category:2000s in Bucharest Category:Women's ice hockey competitions in Slovenia Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Slovenia Category:2000–01 in Slovenian ice hockey Category:Sport in Maribor