| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | United States |
| Dates | April 2 - April 8 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Venue(s) | 6 (in 6 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Canada (7th title) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 20 |
| Goals scored | 143 (7.15 per match) |
| Attendance | 21,667 (1,083 per match) (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "," per match) |
| Scoring leader(s) | Cammi Granato (13 points) |
The 2001 IIHF World Women's Championships was held April 2 – April 8, 2001 in six cities in the state of Minnesota. Team Canada won their seventh consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the United States in a repeat of the previous six finals.
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With the promotion and relegation format now in use, the top seven nations were joined by Kazakhstan, the winner of Group B in 2000.
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.
| Teams proceed to Final round | |
| Teams sent to Consolation round |
| Rk. | Team | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | DIF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 1 | +28 | 6 |
| 2. | Russia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 4 |
| 3. | Sweden | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 17 | -14 | 2 |
| 4. | Kazakhstan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 22 | -19 | 0 |
All times local
| April 2, 2001 4:00 pm |
Sweden | 0 – 3 ( 0 - 0 , 0 - 2 , 0 - 1 ) |
Russia | Recreation Centre, Rochester Attendance: 300 |
| April 2, 2001 7:30 pm |
Kazakhstan | 0 – 11 ( 0 - 4 , 0 - 4 , 0 - 3 ) |
Canada | Recreation Centre, Rochester Attendance: 301 |
| April 3, 2001 4:00 pm |
Sweden | 3 – 1 ( 1 - 0 , 1 - 1 , 1 - 0 ) |
Kazakhstan | Recreation Centre, Rochester Attendance: 303 |
| April 3, 2001 7:30 pm |
Canada | 5 – 1 ( 2 - 0 , 3 - 1 , 0 - 0 ) |
Russia | Recreation Centre, Rochester Attendance: 520 |
| April 5, 2001 4:05 pm |
Canada | 13 – 0 ( 4 - 0 , 6 - 0 , 3 - 0 ) |
Sweden | Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis Attendance: 1178 |
| April 5, 2001 7:30 pm |
Russia | 8 – 2 ( 3 - 0 , 1 - 1 , 4 - 1 ) |
Kazakhstan | Schwan's Super Rink, Blaine Attendance: 301 |
| Rk. | Team | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | DIF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 | +35 | 6 |
| 2. | Finland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 17 | -5 | 4 |
| 3. | China | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 20 | -14 | 1 |
| 4. | Germany | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 18 | -16 | 1 |
All times local
| April 2, 2001 4:00 pm |
Finland | 7 – 6 ( 4 - 3 , 1 - 1 , 2 - 2 ) |
China | NHC, St. Cloud Attendance: 300 |
| April 2, 2001 7:30 pm |
Germany | 0 – 13 ( 0 - 5 , 0 - 6 , 0 - 2 ) |
United States | NHC, St. Cloud Attendance: 301 |
| April 3, 2001 4:00 pm |
Finland | 5 – 2 ( 0 - 1 , 3 - 1 , 2 - 0 ) |
Germany | NHC, St. Cloud Attendance: 300 |
| April 3, 2001 7:30 pm |
United States | 13 – 0 ( 6 - 0 , 3 - 0 , 4 - 0 ) |
China | NHC, St. Cloud Attendance: 581 |
| April 5, 2001 7:30 pm |
China | 0 – 0 ( 0 - 0 , 0 - 0 , 0 - 0 ) |
Germany | Ice Center, Plymouth Attendance: 300 |
| April 5, 2001 7:35 pm |
United States | 9 – 0 ( 3 - 0 , 5 - 0 , 1 - 0 ) |
Finland | Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis Attendance: 4421 |
| April 6, 2001 4:00 pm |
China | 4 – 1 ( 2 - 0, 1 - 1 , 1 - 0 ) |
Kazakhstan | Columbia Arena, Fridley Attendance: 301 |
| April 6, 2001 7:30 pm |
Sweden | 2 – 6 ( 1 - 2, 1 - 1 , 0 - 3 ) |
Germany | Columbia Arena, Fridley Attendance: 305 |
| April 8, 2001 12:00 pm |
Kazakhstan | 1 – 3 |
Sweden | Schwan's Super Rink, Blaine Attendance: 305 |
| April 8, 2001 12:00 pm |
Germany | 1 – 0 ( 1 - 0 , 0 - 0 , 0 - 0 ) |
China | Columbia Arena, Fridley |
| Semi finals | Finals | |||||||||
| 7 April 2001 | 8 April 2001 | |||||||||
| Group A | 1st | Canada | 8 | |||||||
| Group B | 2nd | Finland | 0 | Gold Medal Game | ||||||
| Canada | 3 | |||||||||
| United States | 2 | |||||||||
| Group B | 1st | United States | 6 | |||||||
| Group A | 2nd | Russia | 1 | |||||||
| Bronze Medal Game | ||||||||||
| Russia | 2 | |||||||||
| Finland | 1 | |||||||||
| April 7, 2001 3:08 pm |
Canada | 8 – 0 ( 2 - 0 , 2 - 0 , 4 - 0 ) |
Finland | Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis Attendance: 1603 |
| April 7, 2001 7:38 pm |
United States | 6 – 1 ( 2 - 1 , 3 - 0 , 1 - 0 ) |
Russia | Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis Attendance: 2582 |
| April 9, 2000 4:00 pm |
Russia | 2 – 1 ( 1 - 0 , 1 - 1 , 0 - 0 ) |
Finland | Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis Attendance: 1558 |
| April 9, 2000 6:08 pm |
United States | 2 – 3 ( 1 - 1 , 0 - 1 , 1 - 1 ) |
Canada | Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis Attendance: 5632 |
| 2001 IIHF World Women Championship Winners |
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Canada 7th title |
| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cammi Granato | 5 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 16 |
| Krissy Wendell | 5 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 10 |
| Nancy Drolet | 5 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| Jennifer Botterill | 5 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 11 |
| Ekaterina Pashkevich | 5 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 5 |
| Jenny Schmidgall | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 15 |
| Kelly Bechard | 5 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 10 |
| Tammy Shewchuk | 5 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| Danielle Goyette | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 8 |
| Katie King | 5 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 10 |
| Player | Mins | GA | SOG | GAA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sara Decosta | 120 | 1 | 40 | 0.50 | .975 |
| Sami Jo Small | 120 | 1 | 21 | 0.50 | .952 |
| Kim St-Pierre | 180 | 2 | 64 | 0.67 | .969 |
| Sarah Tueting | 178 | 3 | 45 | 1.01 | .933 |
| Irina Gachennikova | 286 | 13 | 150 | 2.73 | .913 |
| Kim Martin | 85 | 2 | 31 | 2.84 | .871 |
| Stephanie Wartosch-Kurten | 266 | 16 | 155 | 3.60 | .897 |
| Hong Guo | 240 | 15 | 130 | 3.75 | .885 |
| Annica Ahlen | 210 | 18 | 114 | 5.12 | .842 |
| Minna Halonen | 90 | 8 | 32 | 5.35 | .750 |
| Rk. | Team | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | ||
| United States | ||
| Russia | ||
| 4. | Finland | |
| 5. | Germany | |
| 6. | China | |
| 7. | Sweden | |
| 8. | Kazakhstan | Relegated to the 2003 World Championships Division I |
World Championship Group B was played again with an eight team tournament which was hosted by Briancon in France. Switzerland won the tournament with a 2-1 victory over Japan too see them bounce straight back to the main World Championship in 2003.
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