2001 IIHF Women's World Championship

2001 IIHF Women's World Championship
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)
Runner-up   United States
Third place   Russia
Fourth place  Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played 20
Goals scored 143 (7.15 per match)
Attendance 21,847 (1,092 per match)
Scoring leader(s) United States Cammi Granato (13 points)
MVP Canada Jennifer Botterill
← 2000
2003 →

The 2001 IIHF World Women's Championships was held April 2–8, 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. Russia upset Finland two to one to capture their first medal in women's hockey.

Teams

With the promotion and relegation format now in use, the top seven nations were joined by Kazakhstan, the winner of Group B in 2000.

World Championship Group A

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.

First round

     Teams proceed to Final round
     Teams sent to Consolation round

Group A

Standings

Rk. Team GP W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1.  Canada 3300291+286
2.  Russia 3201127+54
3.  Sweden 3102317-142
4.  Kazakhstan 3003322-190

Results

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

Group B

Standings

Rk. Team GP W T L GF GA DIF PTS
1.  United States 3300350+356
2.  Finland 32011217-54
3.  China 3012620-141
4.  Germany 3012218-161

Results

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

Playoff Round

Consolation Round 5-8 Place

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

Consolation Round 7-8 Place

April 8, 2001
12:00 pm		 Kazakhstan  1 – 3
  Sweden Schwan's Super Rink, Blaine
Attendance: 305

Consolation Round 5-6 Place

April 8, 2001
12:00 pm		 Germany  1 – 0
( 1 - 0 , 0 - 0 , 0 - 0 )		  China Columbia Arena, Fridley

Final round

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

Semifinals

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

Match for third place

April 9, 2000
4:00 pm		 Russia  2 – 1
( 1 - 0 , 1 - 1 , 0 - 0 )		  Finland Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis
Attendance: 1558

Final

April 9, 2000
6:08 pm		 United States  2 – 3
( 1 - 1 , 0 - 1 , 1 - 1 )		  Canada Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis
Attendance: 5632

Champions

 2001 IIHF World Women Championship Winners 

Canada
7th title

Scoring leaders

Player GP G A Pts PIM +/-
United States Cammi Granato 57613016
United States Krissy Wendell 53912410
Canada Nancy Drolet 5471147
Canada Jennifer Botterill 58210411
Russia Ekaterina Pashkevich 5641025
United States Jenny Schmidgall 53710415
Canada Kelly Bechard 51910810
Canada Tammy Shewchuk 5549211
Canada Danielle Goyette 545908
United States Katie King 5718010

Goaltending leaders

Player Mins GA SOG GAA SV%
United States Sara Decosta 120:001400.5097.50
Canada Kim St-Pierre 180:002640.6796.88
Canada Sami Jo Small 120:001210.5095.24
United States Sarah Tueting 178:493451.0193.33
Russia Irina Gachennikova 286:07131502.7391.33

Final standings

Rk. Team Notes
1st  Canada
2nd  United States
3rd  Russia
4.  Finland
5.  Germany
6.  China
7.  Sweden
8.  Kazakhstan Relegated to the 2003 World Championships Division I

World Championship Division I

World Championship Group B was renamed Division I and was played again with an eight team tournament which was hosted by Briançon in France.   Switzerland won the tournament with a 2-1 victory over  Japan to see them bounce straight back to the main World Championship in 2003.

Directorate Awards

References

  1. ↑ Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009-10, p.543, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6

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