2001 Women's World Floorball Championships

Floorball competition Women's World Floorball Championships 2001 Latvia 20–27 May 16 yes FIN 2 SWE NOR 36 280 7671 Scoring leader(s) Birgitte Lersbryggen NOR (7+6) MVP Birgitte Lersbryggen NOR 2014-06-25 1999 2003 The 2001 Women's World Floorball Championships was the third world championship in women's floorball. The games were played in Riga, Latvia 20–27 May 2001. Finland ended up as champions, thus they became the first team to win their second title. In the final-game Finland defeated Sweden, 2–0.https://www.dn.se/arkiv/sport/vm-guld-till-finland-igen/ VM-guld till Finland igen Dagens nyheter Swedish 28 May 2001 4 February 2017 Great Britain, Hungary & Poland made their first appearances in the women's floorball world championships. Division A The 8 teams of the first division consists of the 7 best placed teams from the highest division the previous tournament plus AUT, the winner of division B the previous tournament. As with both the earlier world championships, the top four positions were taken by FIN, NOR, SWE and SUI with Finland as the champions. Austria lost the 7th place match versus GER and was then relegated back to division B for the next tournament. The two best placed teams in each group advances to the semifinals. The lower placed teams face up against the corresponding team from the other group for placement matches. Group A main WDL Q 2 n FIN FIN NOR NOR CZE CZE AUT AUT 3 0 0 26 2 2 0 1 16 2 1 0 2 8 12 0 0 3 1 35 green1 A A complete w 20 May 2001 18:15 FIN 2 NOR 1 1–1 0–0 1–0 390 Riga w 20 May 2001 20:30 CZE 7 AUT 1 1–0 1–0 5–1 96 Riga w 22 May 2001 13:00 NOR 12 AUT 0 3–0 3–0 6–0 115 Riga w 22 May 2001 15:30 FIN 8 CZE 1 4–0 1–0 3–1 195 Riga w 24 May 2001 13:00 CZE 0 NOR 3 0–1 0–1 0–1 94 Riga w 24 May 2001 15:30 AUT 0 FIN 16 0–2 0–6 0–8 164 Riga Group B main WDL Q 2 n SWE SWE SUI SUI LAT LAT GER GER 3 0 0 30 2 2 0 1 13 3 1 0 2 6 11 0 0 3 1 34 green1 A A complete w 21 May 2001 18:15 SUI 1 SWE 2 1–1 0–0 0–1 495 Riga w 21 May 2001 20:30 GER 0 LAT 5 0–2 0–1 0–2 470 Riga w 22 May 2001 18:00 SWE 9 LAT 0 1–0 4–0 4–0 356 Riga w 22 May 2001 20:30 SUI 10 GER 0 2–0 2–0 6–0 102 Riga w 24 May 2001 18:00 GER 1 SWE 19 0–6 1–8 0–5 270 Riga w 24 May 2001 20:30 LAT 1 SUI 2 0–0 1–2 0–0 310 Riga Final stage A1 FIN 3 B2 SUI 2 B1 SWE 4 A2 NOR 3 A1 FIN 2 B1 SWE 0 B2 SUI 3 A2 NOR 4 w 25 May 2001 18:00 GER 2 AUT 1 1–0 0–1 1–0 100 Riga w 26 May 2001 13:00 FIN 3 SUI 2 2–0 0–0 1–2 268 Riga w 26 May 2001 16:00 SWE 4 NOR 3 2–1 0–0 2–2 489 Riga w 27 May 2001 10:00 CZE 4 LAT 4 1–1 2–1 1–2 0–0 1–0 243 Riga w 27 May 2001 12:30 SUI 3 NOR 4 1–1 2–0 0–3 327 Riga w 27 May 2001 15:00 FIN 2 SWE 0 0–0 1–0 1–0 943 Riga Top scorers  PlayerG GoalsA AssistsP Points1Birgitte Lersbryggen NOR76132Anna Gustafsson SWE6393Hermine Dahlerus SWE6174Jonna Kettunen FIN5275Susann Simolin FIN3476Mirca Anderegg SUI3367Lena Birath SWE1568Natalie Stadelmann SUIIngrid Gigstad NOR41510Camilla Granelid SWESatu Schilcher FIN325 Division B The second division consisted of the 4 bottom placed teams from the last tournament plus three new teams Great Britain, Hungary, Poland and Russia who were relegated from the top division following their withdrawal from the previous tournament. Russia did however get promoted back to the top division for the next tournament after a clean sweep, beating Denmark in the division final with 14–1 and having a total goal difference by +60. The two best placed teams from each group advances to B-semifinals. The rest of the teams advances to play the corresponding team from the other group i placement matches. Group C main WDL Q 2 n RUS RUS SIN SIN JPN JPN GBR GBR 3 0 0 36 4 2 0 1 8 19 1 0 2 6 13 0 0 3 2 16 green1 A A complete w 20 May 2001 09:00 RUS 10 JPN 2 3–0 4–1 3–1 115 Riga w 20 May 2001 11:15 SIN 4 GBR 1 1–0 1–1 2–0 112 Riga w 21 May 2001 13:30 JPN 3 GBR 1 2–0 0–1 1–0 110 Riga w 21 May 2001 15:45 RUS 17 SIN 2 8–2 4–0 5–0 171 Riga w 23 May 2001 13:00 GBR 0 RUS 9 0–1 0–4 0–4 87 Riga w 23 May 2001 15:30 SIN 2 JPN 1 0–0 1–0 1–1 163 Riga Group D main WDL Q 2 n DEN DEN POL POL AUS AUS HUN HUN 2 1 0 14 5 1 2 0 8 5 1 1 1 12 7 0 0 3 3 20 green1 A A complete w 20 May 2001 13:30 AUS 1 DEN 5 0–2 0–1 1–2 108 Riga w 20 May 2001 15:45 POL 4 HUN 1 2–1 0–0 2–0 106 Riga w 21 May 2001 09:00 DEN 7 HUN 2 1–0 4–1 2–1 108 Riga w 21 May 2001 11:15 AUS 2 POL 2 1–1 1–1 0–0 95 Riga w 23 May 2001 18:00 HUN 0 AUS 9 0–1 0–3 0–5 109 Riga w 23 May 2001 20:30 POL 2 DEN 2 1–0 0–1 1–1 174 Riga Placement matches w 25 May 2001 10:30 HUN 4 GBR 1 2–0 1–1 1–0 87 Riga w 25 May 2001 13:00 RUS 17 POL 2 7–1 3–0 7–1 110 Riga w 25 May 2001 15:30 DEN 5 SIN 4 2–0 0–3 3–1 150 Riga w 25 May 2001 20:30 JPN 3 AUS 0 1–0 1–0 1–0 95 Riga w 26 May 2001 10:00 POL 2 SIN 4 1–2 0–1 1–1 119 Riga w 26 May 2001 19:00 RUS 14 DEN 1 4–0 6–0 4–1 225 Riga Top scorers  PlayerG GoalsA AssistsP Points1Liubov Serebryakova RUS164202Elena Mouravieva RUS119203Olga Serebriakova RUS79164Olga Makarova RUS511165Olga Skvortsova RUS47116Elena Makarova RUS4377Yulia Sadretdinova RUSJill Quek SIN6069Svetlana Poukhova RUSTina Jensen DEN426 Final standings Division A FINSWENOR4SUI5CZE6LAT7GER8AUT *Austria relegated to division B for 2003 Division B 1RUS2DEN3SIN4POL5JPN6AUS7HUN8GBR *Russia promoted to division A for 2003 All-star team The pick of Latvian Rudīte Danovska as the best goalkeeper in the tournament made her the first player outside of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Switzerland to be included in a world championship all-star team. Birgitte Lersbryggen was included in the all-star team for her second back-to-back tournament. Goalkeeper: Rudīte Danovska LAT Defender: Paula Jouhten FIN Defender: Jenny Wiklund SWE Centre: Birgitte Lersbryggen NOR Forward: Hermine Dahlerus SWE Forward: Anna Gustafsson SWE MVP: Birgitte Lersbryggen NOR See also IFF Tournament Site References Category:Floorball World Championships Women's World Floorball Championships Women's World Floorball Championships Category:Floorball in Latvia Category:International sports competitions hosted by Latvia Category:May 2001 sports events in Europe Category:Sports competitions in Riga Category:2000s in Riga