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

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

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	Japan (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	133 (6.65 per match)
Attendance	13,850 (693 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Masako Sato (12 points)
2000 →

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

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)

Colmar
Attendance: 250

March 22, 1999
8:00 pm

0 – 4
( 0 - 1 , 0 - 2, 0 - 1)

Japan

Colmar
Attendance: 250

March 24, 1999
4:30 pm

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)

Colmar
Attendance: 300

March 25, 1999
5:30 pm

Norway

3 – 0
( 3 - 0 , 0 - 0, 0 - 0)

March 25, 1999
9:00 pm

Japan

6 – 0
( 1 - 0 , 3 - 0, 2 - 0)

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 )

Colmar
Attendance: 1000

March 21, 1999
8:30 pm

France

3 – 0
( 0 - 0 , 2 - 0 , 1 - 0 )

Colmar
Attendance: 1300

March 23, 1999
4:30 pm

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 )

Colmar
Attendance: 1000

March 25, 1999
10:30 am

2 – 4
( 0 - 0 , 1 - 4 , 1 - 0 )

Slovakia

Colmar
Attendance: 1350

March 25, 1999
2:00 pm

2 – 2
( 0 - 0 , 2 - 1 , 0 - 1 )

Colmar
Attendance: 1350

Playoff Round

Consolation Round 5-8 Place

March 27, 1999
10:30 am

Denmark

9 – 1
( 2 - 1 , 4 - 0 , 3 - 0 )

Netherlands relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.

March 27, 1999
2:00 pm

Latvia

8 – 0
( 2 - 0 , 5 - 0 , 1 - 0 )

Slovakia relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.

Consolation Round 7-8 Place

March 28, 1999
9:30 am

Slovakia

8 – 7
( 5 - 4 , 1 - 1 , 2 - 2 )

Consolation Round 5-6 Place

March 28, 1999
1:00 pm

3 – 5
( 0 - 2 , 1 - 1 , 2 - 2 )

Latvia

Final round

	Semi finals 27 March 1999					Finals 28 March 1999

	A1	Japan	2			Gold Medal Game
	B2	Czech Republic	1
						Japan		7
						Norway		1
	B1	France	2
	A2	Norway	3			Bronze Medal Game

						France		5
						Czech Republic		4

Semifinals

March 27, 1999
5:30 pm

Japan

2 – 1
( 1 - 0 , 1 - 1 , 0 - 0 )

March 27, 1999
9:00 pm

France

2 – 3
( 1 - 2 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 1 )

Match for third place

March 28, 1999
4:30 pm

France

5 – 4
( 2 - 3 , 1 - 0 , 2 - 1 )

Final

March 28, 1999
8:00 pm

Japan

7 – 1
( 2 - 1 , 3 - 0 , 2 - 0 )

Champions

1999 IIHF World Women Championship Pool B Winners
Japan 1st title

Scoring leaders

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

Goaltending leaders

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

Final standings

Rk.	Team	Notes
	Japan	Promoted to the 2000 World Championships
	Norway
	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

6-0
(1-0,3-0,2-0)

19 March 1999

4-1
(0-0,1-1,3-0)

20 March 1999

1-8
(0-3,1-4,0-1)

20 March 1999

0-22
(0-8,0-2,0-12)

21 March 1999

1-7
(0-0,1-3,0-4)

21 March 1999

1-9
(0-1,1-5,0-3)

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

3-4

21 March 1999

5-0
(forfeit)

Scoring leaders

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

References

Group B goaltending leaders

Duplacey, James (1998). Total Hockey: The official encyclopedia of the National Hockey League. Total Sports. pp. 487–9. ISBN 0-8362-7114-9.

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