1999 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (Lower Divisions)

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1999 IIHF World Women's Championship
Pool B
Tournament details
Host country  France
Dates March 21 - March 28
Teams 8
Venue(s) Colmar (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg  Japan (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 20
Goals scored 133 (6.65 per match)
Attendance 13,850 (693 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Japan Masako Sato (12 points)
2000 →

The 1999 IIHF World Women's Championships Pool B were held between March 21-March 28, 1999 in the town of Colmar in France.

This was the first year of the Pool B tournament which saw Japan win the Pool with a 7-1 final game victory over Norway to promote them to the World Championship. A third tier was played as well (called 2000 B Qualification) with six nations in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.

1999 Qualification Tournament

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Main article: 1999 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships Qualification

Group B contained the seven teams that failed to qualify for the main World Championships through the Qualification Process and Japan.

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 winning team in the tournament was promoted to the 2000 World Championship, while the bottom two teams would be relegated to the 2001 Group B Qualification tournament.

First round

     Teams proceed to Final round
     Teams sent to Consolation round

Group A

Rk. Team GP W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1.  Japan 3 3 0 0 16 2 +14 6
2.  Norway 3 1 0 2 5 8 -3 2
3.  Denmark 3 1 0 2 5 11 -6 2
4.  Latvia 3 1 0 2 5 10 -5 2

Results

All times local

March 22, 1999
4:30 pm		 Latvia  3 – 1
( 1 - 0, 1 - 0, 1 - 1)		  Denmark Colmar
Attendance: 250
March 22, 1999
8:00 pm		 Norway  0 – 4
( 0 - 1 , 0 - 2, 0 - 1)		  Japan Colmar
Attendance: 250
March 24, 1999
4:30 pm		 Latvia  2 – 6
( 1 - 2, 0 - 1, 0 - 2)		  Japan Colmar
Attendance: 200
March 24, 1999
8:00 pm		 Denmark  4 – 2
( 1 - 0 , 3 - 1, 0 - 1)		  Norway Colmar
Attendance: 300
March 25, 1999
5:30 pm		 Norway  3 – 0
  Latvia Colmar
March 25, 1999
9:00 pm		 Japan  6 – 0
  Denmark Colmar

Group B

Rk. Team GP W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1.  France 3 2 1 0 14 3 +11 5
2.  Czech Republic 3 2 1 0 14 4 +10 5
3.  Slovakia 3 1 0 2 6 8 -2 2
4.  Netherlands 3 0 0 3 3 22 -19 0

Results

All times local

March 21, 1999
5:00 pm		 Czech Republic  9 – 0
( 4 - 0 , 1 - 0 , 4 - 0 )		  Netherlands Colmar
Attendance: 1000
March 21, 1999
8:30 pm		 France  3 – 0
( 0 - 0 , 2 - 0 , 1 - 0 )		  Slovakia Colmar
Attendance: 1300
March 23, 1999
4:30 pm		 Slovakia  2 – 3
( 1 - 1 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 2 )		  Czech Republic Colmar
Attendance: 250
March 23, 1999
8:30 pm		 France  9 – 1
( 4 - 1 , 2 - 0 , 3 - 0 )		  Netherlands Colmar
Attendance: 1000
March 25, 1999
10:30 am		 Netherlands  2 – 4
( 0 - 0 , 1 - 4 , 1 - 2 )		  Slovakia Colmar
Attendance: 1350
March 25, 1999
2:00 pm		 Czech Republic  2 – 2
( 0 - 0 , 2 - 1 , 0 - 1 )		  France Colmar
Attendance: 1350

Playoff Round

Consolation Round 5-8 Place

March 27, 1999
10:30 am		 Denmark  9 – 1
  Netherlands Colmar

Netherlands relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.

March 27, 1999
2:00 pm		 Latvia  8 – 0
  Slovakia Colmar

Slovakia relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.

Consolation Round 7-8 Place

March 28, 1999
9:30 am		 Slovakia  8 – 7
  Netherlands Colmar

Consolation Round 5-6 Place

March 28, 1999
1:00 pm		 Denmark  3 – 5
  Latvia Colmar

Final round

Semi finals Finals
27 March 1999 28 March 1999
                 
     
Group A 1st  Japan 2
 
Group B 2nd  Czech Republic 1   Gold Medal Game
   Japan 7
     
   Norway 1
Group B 1st  France 2
 
Group A 2nd  Norway 3  
  Bronze Medal Game
 France 5
 Czech Republic 4

Semifinals

March 27, 1999
5:30 pm		 Japan  2 – 1
  Czech Republic Colmar
March 27, 1999
9:00 pm		 France  2 – 3
  Norway Colmar

Match for third place

March 28, 1999
4:30 pm		 France  5 – 4
  Czech Republic Colmar

Final

March 28, 1999
8:00 pm		 Japan  7 – 1
  Norway Colmar

Champions

 1999 IIHF World Women Championship Pool B Winners 

Japan
1st title

Scoring leaders

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-
Japan Masako Sato 5 8 4 12 4 6
France Gwenola Personne 5 2 9 11 2 13
France Christin Duchamp 4 7 3 10 2 14
Latvia Inese Geca-Miljone 5 7 3 10 4 1
Czech Republic Zuzana Kralova 5 4 6 10 8 7
Latvia Iveta Koka 5 3 7 10 2 5
Japan Hanae Kubo 5 4 4 8 2 5
Japan Etsuko Wada 5 4 4 8 4 3
Japan Aki Tsuchida 5 2 5 7 8 5
France Deborah Iszraelewicz 5 5 1 6 2 13

Goaltending leaders[1]

Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%
Japan Yuka Oda 261:51 3 72 0.69 95.83
Latvia Lolita Andrisevska 292:02 12 178 2.47 93.26
Czech Republic Ludmila Nelibova 290:58 11 126 2.27 91.27
Norway Hege Moe 175:11 11 102 3.77 89.22
Netherlands Desiree Jacobs 149:45 17 135 6.81 87.41

Final standings

Rk. Team Notes
1st  Japan Promoted to the 2000 World Championships
2nd  Norway
3rd  France
4.  Czech Republic
5.  Latvia
6.  Denmark
7.  Slovakia Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Group B Qualification
8.  Netherlands Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Group B Qualification

2000 Qualification Tournament

Six additional nations played in two regional qualifiers for entry into the 2000 world championship group B. Both groups were played in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, with Group B being a best two out of three.

Group A

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1  Italy 3 3 0 0 19 - 03 6
2  Great Britain 3 2 0 1 32 - 05 4
3  Hungary 3 1 0 2 08 - 17 2
4  South Africa 3 0 0 3 01 - 35 0

Italy qualified to 2000 World Championship Group B .

19 March 1999 Hungary  6-0
  South Africa
19 March 1999 Italy  4-1
  Great Britain
20 March 1999 Hungary  1-8
  Italy
20 March 1999 South Africa  0-22
  Great Britain
21 March 1999 South Africa  1-7
  Italy
21 March 1999 Hungary  1-9
  Great Britain

Group B

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1  Kazakhstan 2 2 0 0 09 - 03 4
2  North Korea 2 0 0 2 03 - 09 0

Kazakhstan qualified to 2000 World Championship Group B .

19 March 1999 North Korea  3-4
  Kazakhstan
21 March 1999 Kazakhstan  5-0
(forfeit)
  North Korea

Scoring leaders

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-
United Kingdom Michelle Smith 3 7 8 15 0 11
United Kingdom Louise Wheeler 3 5 9 14 0 11
United Kingdom Teresa Lewis 3 6 6 12 4 6
Italy Maria Leitner 3 5 3 8 0 3
United Kingdom Claire Oldfield 3 5 2 7 4 7

References

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