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

2000 IIHF World Women's Championship
Pool B
Tournament details
Host country	Latvia
Venue(s)	Liepāja, Riga (in 1 host city)
Dates	March 20 – March 26
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Kazakhstan (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Games played	20
Goals scored	117 (5.85 per game)
Attendance	6,296 (315 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	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 edit

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 edit

Group A edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kazakhstan	3	3	0	0	8	3	+5	6	Advanced to Final round
2	Switzerland	3	2	0	1	10	4	+6	4	Advanced to Final round
3	Czech Republic	3	0	1	2	6	9	−3	1	Sent to Consolation round
4	Latvia	3	0	1	2	2	10	−8	1	Sent to Consolation round

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results edit

All times local

March 20, 2000
4:00 pm

Switzerland

1–2
( 0 – 1, 0 – 1, 1 – 0)

Kazakhstan

Attendance: 490

March 20, 2000
7:00 pm

Czech Republic

2–2
( 0 – 0 , 2 – 1 , 0 – 1)

Latvia

Attendance: 1050

March 21, 2000
3:30 pm

Czech Republic

2–3
( 0 – 1, 2 – 2 , 0 – 0)

Kazakhstan

Attendance: 410

March 21, 2000
7:00 pm

Latvia

0–5
( 0 – 2 , 0 – 1 , 0 – 2)

Switzerland

Attendance: 980

March 23, 2000
3:30 pm

Switzerland

4–2
( 0 – 1, 2 – 1 , 2 – 0)

Czech Republic

Attendance: 520

March 23, 2000
7:00 pm

Kazakhstan

3–0
( 1 – 0 , 0 – 0 , 2 – 0 )

Latvia

Attendance: 964

Group B edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway	3	3	0	0	16	3	+13	6	Advanced to Final round
2	Denmark	3	1	1	1	8	5	+3	3	Advanced to Final round
3	France	3	1	1	1	12	10	+2	3	Sent to Consolation round
4	Italy	3	0	0	3	2	20	−18	0	Sent to Consolation round

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results edit

All times local

March 20, 2000
4:00 pm

Norway

7–0
( 2 – 0, 2 – 0 , 3 – 0)

Italy

March 20, 2000
7:00 pm

France

2–2
( 0 – 0 , 1 – 1 , 1 – 1)

Denmark

March 22, 2000
3:30 pm

France

8–2
( 2 – 0, 2 – 0 , 4 – 2 )

Italy

March 22, 2000
7:00 pm

Denmark

1–3
( 0 – 1 , 1 – 0 , 0 – 2)

Norway

March 23, 2000
3:30 pm

Norway

6–2
( 2 – 0, 2 – 0 , 2 – 2 )

France

March 23, 2000
7:00 pm

Italy

0–5
( 0 – 2 , 0 – 1 , 0 – 2)

Denmark

Playoff round edit

Consolation Round 5–8 Place edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
5	France	3	2	1	0	12	5	+7	5
6	Latvia	3	1	2	0	7	5	+2	4
7	Czech Republic	3	1	1	1	9	5	+4	3
8	Italy	3	0	0	3	4	17	−13	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results edit

All times local

March 20, 2000
4:00 pm

Latvia

2–2
( 0 – 0 , 2 – 1 , 0 – 1 )

Czech Republic

Attendance: 490

March 22, 2000
7:00 pm

France

8–2
( 2 – 0 , 2 – 0 , 4 – 2)

Italy

March 25, 2000
1:00 pm

France

3–3
( 0 – 1 , 1 – 2 , 2 – 0 )

Latvia

March 25, 2000
4:00 pm

Czech Republic

7–2
( 1 – 1 , 4 – 1 , 2 – 0 )

Italy

March 26, 2000
1:00 pm

Czech Republic

0–1
( 0 – 0 , 0 – 1 , 0 – 0 )

France

March 26, 2000
4:00 pm

Latvia

2–0
( 0 – 0 , 1 – 0 , 1 – 0 )

Italy

Attendance: 382

Final Round 1–4 Place edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Kazakhstan	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5	6
2	Switzerland	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	3
3	Norway	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	3
4	Denmark	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results edit

All times local

March 20, 2000
4:00 pm

Switzerland

1–2
( 0 – 1 , 0 – 1 , 1 – 0 )

Kazakhstan

Attendance: 490

March 22, 2000
7:00 pm

Denmark

1–3
( 0 – 1 , 1 – 0 , 0 – 2)

Norway

March 25, 2000
1:00 pm

Norway

2–2
( 0 – 0 , 2 -0 , 0 – 2 )

Switzerland

March 25, 2000
4:00 pm

Kazakhstan

3–0
( 0 – 0 , 1 – 0 , 2 – 0 )

Denmark

March 26, 2000
1:00 pm

Switzerland

4–0
( 1 – 0 , 0 – 0 , 3 – 0 )

Denmark

March 26, 2000
4:00 pm

Kazakhstan

2–1
( 1 – 0 , 0 – 1 , 1 – 0 )

Norway

Scoring leaders edit

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-
Rachel Rochat	5	4	4	8	4	7
Christine Duchamp	5	3	5	8	4	6
Gwenola Personne	5	5	2	7	2	5
Inese Geca-Miljone	5	5	2	7	2	−1
Marianne Dahlstrom	5	1	6	7	0	3
Iveta Koka	5	1	5	6	0	−1
Ingvild Oversveen	5	4	1	5	2	2
Jeanette Marty	5	4	1	5	8	6
Ramona Fuhrer	5	3	2	5	2	6
Olga Kryukova	5	1	4	5	2	5

Goaltending leaders edit

Player	Mins	GA	SOG	GAA	SV%
Natalya Trunova	300:00	4	90	0.80	95.56
Patricia Sautter	298:52	6	111	1.20	94.59
Hege Moe	298:50	7	106	1.41	93.40
Lolita Andriševska	300:00	13	177	2.60	92.66
Birgitte Andersen	295:32	11	138	2.23	92.03

Champions edit

2000 IIHF World Women Championship Pool B winners
Kazakhstan 1st title

Final standings edit

Rk.	Team	Notes
	Kazakhstan	Promoted to the 2001 World Championships
	Switzerland
	Norway
4.	Denmark
5.	France
6.	Latvia
7.	Czech Republic
8.	Italy	Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Division I Qualification

2001 Qualification Tournament edit

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.