2000 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (Lower Divisions)

none IIHF World Women's Championship 2000 Pool B Latvia March 20 – March 26 8 Liepāja, Riga 1 ihw Kazakhstan 1 20 117 6296 SUI Rachel Rochat (4+4=8PTS) 1999 2001 The 2000 IIHF World Women's Championships Pool B were held between March 20–26, 2000 in the cities of Liepāja and Riga in Latvia. Kazakhstan won the tournament with an impressive performance winning all five of their matches. Additionally this advanced them to a qualification tournament for the Turin Olympics together with second place Switzerland, who narrowly edged out Norway for the privilege. Group 'B' changed its name to Division I following this season. For the second year, a third tier tournament was played (called 2001 Pool B Qualification) in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. 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 teams would carry forward any matches against teams that they have already played in the first round, leaving just two matches to be played in the final round. The winning team in the tournament was promoted to the 2001 World Championship, while the bottom team would be relegated to the 2003 Group B Qualification tournament. First round Group A main WDL Q 2 KAZ KAZ SUI SUI CZE CZE LAT LAT 3 0 0 8 3 2 0 1 10 4 0 1 2 6 9 0 1 2 2 10 #ccffcc Advanced to Final round A A #ffccff Sent to Consolation round E E complete IIHF Results All times local #eeeeee March 20, 2000 4:00 pm SUI 1–2 (0 – 1, 0 – 1, 1 – 0) KAZ 490 #eeffff March 20, 2000 7:00 pm CZE 2–2 (0 – 0, 2 – 1, 0 – 1) LAT 1050 #eeeeee March 21, 2000 3:30 pm CZE 2–3 (0 – 1, 2 – 2, 0 – 0) KAZ 410 #eeffff March 21, 2000 7:00 pm LAT 0–5 (0 – 2, 0 – 1, 0 – 2) SUI 980 #eeeeee March 23, 2000 3:30 pm SUI 4–2 (0 – 1, 2 – 1, 2 – 0) CZE 520 #eeffff March 23, 2000 7:00 pm KAZ 3–0 (1 – 0, 0 – 0, 2 – 0) LAT 964 Group B main WDL Q 2 NOR NOR DEN DEN FRA FRA ITA ITA 3 0 0 16 3 1 1 1 8 5 1 1 1 12 10 0 0 3 2 20 #ccffcc Advanced to Final round A A #ffccff Sent to Consolation round E E complete IIHF Results All times local #eeeeee March 20, 2000 4:00 pm NOR 7–0 (2 – 0, 2 – 0, 3 – 0) ITA #eeffff March 20, 2000 7:00 pm FRA 2–2 (0 – 0, 1 – 1, 1 – 1) DEN #eeeeee March 22, 2000 3:30 pm FRA 8–2 (2 – 0, 2 – 0, 4 – 2) ITA #eeffff March 22, 2000 7:00 pm DEN 1–3 (0 – 1, 1 – 0, 0 – 2) NOR #eeeeee March 23, 2000 3:30 pm NOR 6–2 (2 – 0, 2 – 0, 2 – 2) FRA #eeffff March 23, 2000 7:00 pm ITA 0–5 (0 – 2, 0 – 1, 0 – 2) DEN Playoff round Consolation Round 5–8 Place main WDL Q 2 5 FRA FRA LAT LAT CZE CZE ITA ITA 2 1 0 12 5 1 2 0 7 5 1 1 1 9 5 0 0 3 4 17 #ccffcc A A #ffccff E E complete IIHF Results All times local #eeeeee March 20, 2000 4:00 pm LAT 2–2 (0 – 0, 2 – 1, 0 – 1) CZE 490 #eeffff March 22, 2000 7:00 pm FRA 8–2 (2 – 0, 2 – 0, 4 – 2) ITA #eeeeee March 25, 2000 1:00 pm FRA 3–3 (0 – 1, 1 – 2, 2 – 0) LAT #eeffff March 25, 2000 4:00 pm CZE 7–2 (1 – 1, 4 – 1, 2 – 0) ITA #eeeeee March 26, 2000 1:00 pm CZE 0–1 (0 – 0, 0 – 1, 0 – 0) FRA #eeffff March 26, 2000 4:00 pm LAT 2–0 (0 – 0, 1 – 0, 1 – 0) ITA 382 Final Round 1–4 Place main WDL Q 2 KAZ KAZ SUI SUI NOR NOR DEN DEN 3 0 0 7 2 1 1 1 7 4 1 1 1 6 5 0 0 3 1 10 #ccffcc A A #ffccff E E complete IIHF Results All times local #eeeeee March 20, 2000 4:00 pm SUI 1–2 (0 – 1, 0 – 1, 1 – 0) KAZ 490 #eeffff March 22, 2000 7:00 pm DEN 1–3 (0 – 1, 1 – 0, 0 – 2) NOR #eeeeee March 25, 2000 1:00 pm NOR 2–2 (0 – 0, 2 -0, 0 – 2) SUI #eeffff March 25, 2000 4:00 pm KAZ 3–0 (0 – 0, 1 – 0, 2 – 0) DEN #eeeeee March 26, 2000 1:00 pm SUI 4–0 (1 – 0, 0 – 0, 3 – 0) DEN #eeffff March 26, 2000 4:00 pm KAZ 2–1 (1 – 0, 0 – 1, 1 – 0) NOR Scoring leaders Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-SUI Rachel Rochat544847FRA Christine Duchamp535846FRA Gwenola Personne552725LAT Inese Geca-Miljone55272−1NOR Marianne Dahlstrom516703LAT Iveta Koka51560−1NOR Ingvild Oversveen541522SUI Jeanette Marty541586SUI Ramona Fuhrer532526KAZ Olga Kryukova514525 Goaltending leaders Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%KAZ Natalya Trunova300:004900.8095.56SUI Patricia Sautter298:5261111.2094.59NOR Hege Moe298:5071061.4193.40LAT Lolita Andriševska300:00131772.6092.66DEN Birgitte Andersen295:32111382.2392.03 Champions ihw 2000 IIHF World Women Championship Pool B winners Kazakhstan 1st Final standings Rk.Team Notes KAZ Promoted to the 2001 World Championships SUI NOR 4. DEN 5. FRA 6. LAT 7. CZE 8. ITA Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Division I Qualification 2001 Qualification Tournament Two groups of four played a round robin with the group winners playing off for promotion to next years Division I tournament (Group B was renamed Division I). The tournament was played March 22–26, 2000 in Dunaújváros and Székesfehérvár Hungary. First round Group A main WDL Q 2 SVK SVK BEL BEL HUN HUN RSA RSA 3 0 0 39 0 2 0 1 11 10 1 0 2 6 14 0 0 3 3 35 #F7F6A8 Advanced to Final A complete IIHF Results All times local #eeeeee March 22, 2000 1:00 pm SVK 8–0 (2 – 0, 2 – 0, 4 – 0) BEL 300 #eeffff March 22, 2000 6:00 pm HUN 4–3 (1 – 0, 2 – 2, 1 – 1) RSA 850 #eeeeee March 23, 2000 4:00 pm RSA 0–23 (0 – 5, 0 – 8, 0 – 10) SVK 300 #eeffff March 23, 2000 6:00 pm HUN 2–3 (2 – 0, 0 – 0, 0 – 3) BEL 400 #eeeeee March 25, 2000 4:00 pm SVK 8–0 (4 – 0, 3 – 0, 1 – 0) HUN 310 #eeffff March 25, 2000 6:00 pm BEL 8–0 (1 – 0, 4 – 0, 3 – 0) RSA 400 Group B main WDL Q 2 PRK PRK GBR GBR NED NED AUS AUS 2 1 0 14 5 2 0 1 14 7 1 1 1 6 7 0 0 3 2 17 #F7F6A8 Advanced to Final A complete IIHF Results All times local #eeeeee March 22, 2000 4:00 pm NED 2–0 (0 – 0, 1 – 0, 1 – 0) AUS 300 #eeffff March 22, 2000 7:00 pm GBR 2–4 (1 – 1, 0 – 2, 1 – 1) PRK 300 #eeeeee March 23, 2000 1:00 pm PRK 2–2 (1 – 1, 1 – 1, 0 – 0) NED 300 #eeffff March 23, 2000 7:00 pm GBR 7–1 (2 – 0, 1 – 1, 4 – 0) AUS 300 #eeeeee March 25, 2000 1:00 pm AUS 1–8 (0 – 3, 1 – 2, 0 – 3) PRK 300 #eeffff March 25, 2000 7:00 pm NED 2–5 (1 – 2, 0 – 1, 1 – 2) GBR 300 Final round Match for seventh place #eeeeee March 26, 2000 RSA 0–6 (0 – 1, 0 – 2, 0 – 3) AUS Match for fifth place #eeffff March 26, 2000 HUN 0–2 (0 – 1, 0 – 0, 0 – 1) NED Match for third place #FFDAB9 March 26, 2000 BEL 1–8 (0 – 2, 0 – 4, 1 – 2) GBR Final #F7F6A8 March 25, 2000 SVK 1–3 (1 – 0, 0 – 1, 0 – 2) PRK North Korea qualified for the 2001 World Championship Division I. Scoring leaders Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-GBR Michelle Smith49211414SVK Zaneta Malachova4549014SVK Martina Kisova4628012SVK Marcela Stefanovicova4437012GBR Laura Byrne4437214SVK Katarina Siskova443728GBR Louise Wheeler4167212NED Saskia DeJong-Admiraal451644BEL Sara Verpoest45166−1SVK Katarina Buocikova4336014 Goaltending leaders Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%SVK Andrea Risova180:003521.0094.23NED Helena Kysela198:264571.2192.98GBR Vicky Robbins150:265651.9992.31HUN Eszter Kokenyesi147:517812.8491.36BEL Isis Dhossche120:008544.0085.19 References 30em External links Summary from the Women's Hockey Net Detailed summary from passionhockey.com Official IIHF Group B page Official IIHF Group B Qualification page Lower World 2000 Category:Sport in Liepāja Category:2000s in Riga Category:Sports competitions in Riga Category:March 2000 sports events in Europe Category:Women's ice hockey competitions in Latvia Category:International ice hockey competitions hosted by Hungary Category:Women's ice hockey competitions in Hungary Category:2000 in Hungarian women's sport Category:1999–2000 in Hungarian ice hockey Category:Sport in Székesfehérvár