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

2001 IIHF World Women's Championship
Division I
Tournament details
Host country  France
Dates March 20 - March 25
Teams 8
Venue(s) Briançon, France (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions    Switzerland (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 20
Goals scored 87 (4.35 per match)
Attendance 14,527 (726 per match)
Scoring leader(s) Czech Republic Zuzana Kralova (5+3=8PTS)
2000
2003

The 2001 IIHF World Women's Championships Division I (formerly Pool 'B') were held between March 20-March 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

     Teams proceed to Final
     Teams relegated to Division II

Group A

Rk. Team GP W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1.  Japan 3120108+24
2.  North Korea 31111014-43
3.  France 311178-13
4.  Denmark 3102107+32

Results

All times local

March 20, 2001
5:30pm
Denmark 8 2
( 3 - 0 , 1 - 2, 4 - 0)
 North KoreaParc 1326
Attendance: 451
March 20, 2001
8:30pm
France 3 3
( 1 - 2 , 2 - 0 , 0 - 1)
 JapanParc 1326
Attendance: 1812
March 21, 2001
4:30pm
Japan 4 4
( 0 - 0 , 4 - 1, 0 - 3)
 North KoreaParc 1326
Attendance: 409
March 21, 2001
8:00pm
Denmark 1 2
( 0 - 0 , 1 - 2 , 0 - 0)
 FranceParc 1326
Attendance: 1592
March 23, 2001
11:30am
Japan 3 1
( 1 - 0 , 0 - 0, 2 - 1 )
 DenmarkParc 1326
Attendance: 413
March 23, 2001
2:30pm
North Korea 4 2
( 1 - 1 , 2 - 0 , 1 - 1 )
 FranceParc 1326
Attendance: 1867

Group B

Rk. Team GP W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1.   Switzerland 3300162+146
2.  Czech Republic 311197+23
3.  Latvia 311168-23
4.  Norway 3003216-140

Results

All times local

March 20, 2001
11:00pm
Latvia 0 4
( 0 - 1 , 0 - 2 , 0 - 1 )
  SwitzerlandParc 1326
Attendance: 300
March 20, 2001
4:30pm
Norway 0 5
( 0 - 1 , 0 - 2 , 0 - 2 )
 Czech RepublicParc 1326
Attendance: 427
March 22, 2001
4:30pm
Norway 1 3
( 0 - 2 , 0 - 0 , 1 - 1 )
 LatviaParc 1326
Attendance: 513
March 22, 2001
8:00pm
Switzerland  4 1
( 2 - 0 , 1 - 0 , 1 - 1 )
 Czech RepublicParc 1326
Attendance: 946
March 23, 2001
5:30pm
Czech Republic 3 3
( 1 - 1 , 0 - 2 , 2 - 0 )
 LatviaParc 1326
Attendance: 476
March 23, 2001
8:00pm
Switzerland  8 1
( 6 - 1 , 0 - 0 , 2 - 0 )
 NorwayParc 1326
Attendance: 1337

Match for seventh place

March 25, 2001
11:30am
Denmark 2 4
( 1 - 2 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 2 )
 NorwayParc 1326
Attendance: 319

Match for fifth place

March 25, 2001
2:30pm
Latvia 1 2
( 0 - 1 , 1 - 1 , 0 - 0 )
 FranceParc 1326
Attendance: 1555

Match for third place

March 25, 2001
5:30pm
Czech Republic 3 2
(0 - 1, 1 - 0, 1 - 1, 0 - 0, 1 - 0)
 North KoreaHershey Centre
Attendance: 1030

Final

March 25, 2001
8:30pm
Switzerland  2 1
( 2 - 0 , 0 - 1 , 0 - 0 )
 JapanParc 1326
Attendance: 1980

Scoring leaders

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-
Czech Republic Zuzana Kralova 453801
Denmark Anne-Sofie Lund 460622
Latvia Iveta Koka 442603
Switzerland Sandrine Ray 442665
Switzerland Kathrin Lehmann 433506
Switzerland Jeanette Marty 414584
Czech Republic Simona Studentova 431461
North Korea Han Song Nyo 431480
Latvia Inese Geca-Miljone 422443
Switzerland Prisca Mosimann 422445
France Sophie Serre 42244–1

Goaltending leaders

Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%
Switzerland Riitta Schaeublin 188:132900.6497.78
Latvia Lolita Andrisevska 240:00102072.5095.17
Czech Republic Radka Lhotska 208:3571122.0193.75
Norway Hege Moe 100:004622.4093.55
Denmark Birgitte Andersen 239:16111692.7693.49

Champions

 2001 IIHF World Women Championship Pool B Winners 

Switzerland
1st title

Final standings

Rk. Team Notes
1st, gold medalist(s)   Switzerland Promoted to the 2003 World Championships
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Japan
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Czech Republic
4.  North Korea
5.  France
6.  Latvia
7.  Norway Relegated to the 2003 World Championships Division II
8.  Denmark 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.

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1  Netherlands 4 4 0 0 27 - 04 8
2  Italy 4 3 0 1 33 - 04 6
3  Belgium 4 2 0 2 12 - 16 4
4  South Africa 4 1 0 3 12 - 20 2
5  Romania 4 0 0 4 02 - 42 0

Netherlands and Italy qualified in 2003 World Championship Division II

05 March 2001South Africa 3-4
 Belgium
05 March 2001Romania 1-14
 Netherlands
06 March 2001Italy 9-1
 South Africa
06 March 2001Romania 0-7
 Belgium
08 March 2001Romania 0-15
 Italy
08 March 2001Belgium 0-5
 Netherlands
09 March 2001Netherlands 2-1
 Italy
09 March 2001Romania 1-6
 South Africa
11 March 2001Netherlands 6-2
 South Africa
11 March 2001Italy 8-1
 Belgium

Scoring leaders

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-
Netherlands Maria Pepels 48412410
South Africa Nadia Kemp 491102–3
Italy Federica Zandegiacomo 480808
Italy Sabrian Viel 4448010
Italy Evelyn Bazzanella 425745
Italy Waltraud Kaser 442646
Netherlands Nancy Van Der Linden 4426229
Belgium Sara Verpoest 424663
Netherlands Myrthe Martens 441529
Italy Barbara Da Rold 441548

Goaltending leaders

Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%
Netherlands Helena Kysela 150:562230.8091.30
Italy Michaela Mair 120:002221.0090.91
Belgium Ilse Vangheel 120:008704.0088.57
Italy Ngoc Lam Kim 120:002161.0087.50
South Africa Jennifer Sharland 104:0111666.3583.33

Group B

Played in Maribor Slovenia March 20–25, 2001.

Team Games Won Drawn Lost Points difference Points
1  Slovakia 4 4 0 0 48 - 02 8
2  Great Britain 4 3 0 1 29 - 06 6
3  Australia 4 2 0 2 13 - 15 4
4  Hungary 4 1 0 3 07 - 28 2
5  Slovenia 4 0 0 4 03 - 50 0

Slovakia and Great Britain qualified in 2003 World Championship Division II

20 March 2001Hungary 0-12
 Slovakia
20 March 2001Slovenia 0-12
 Great Britain
21 March 2001Slovenia 2-7
 Australia
21 March 2001Great Britain 12-0
 Hungary
22 March 2001Slovakia 9-1
 Australia
23 March 2001Slovenia 0-23
 Slovakia
24 March 2001Great Britain 4-2
 Australia
24 March 2001Slovenia 1-7
 Hungary
25 March 2001Australia 3-0
 Hungary
25 March 2001Slovakia 4-1
 Great Britain

Scoring leaders

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-
Slovakia Michaela Durcanska 45914416
Slovakia Katarina Buocikova 45611011
Slovakia Bozena Kevesova 48210214
Slovakia Petra Babiakova 4639212
Slovakia Zuzana Moravcikova 4549014
United Kingdom Michelle Smith 462849
United Kingdom Louise Wheeler 444826
Slovakia Lucia Petrovicova 4268219
Slovakia Natalia Babonyova 443709
Australia Melissa Rulli 442681

Goaltending leaders

Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%
Slovakia Jana Tistanova 150:381320.4096.88
United Kingdom Amy Johnson 120:002321.0093.75
United Kingdom Vicky Robbins 120:004542.0091.11
Australia Ashliegh Sluga 223:2010932.6989.25
Hungary Monika Kiskartali 169:55171186.0085.59

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