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.

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.

• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• France
• Japan
• Latvia
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Slovakia

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

Results

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Playoff round

Consolation round 5–8 place

Netherlands relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.

Slovakia relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.

Champions

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Scoring leaders

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

Goaltending leaders

Player	Mins	GA	SOG	GAA	SV%
Template:Flagicon Yuka Oda	261:51	3	72	0.69	95.83
Template:Flagicon Lolita Andrisevska	292:02	12	178	2.47	93.26
Template:Flagicon Ludmila Nelibová	290:58	11	126	2.27	91.27
Template:Flagicon Hege Moe	175:11	11	102	3.77	89.22
Template:Flagicon 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

Italy qualified to 2000 World Championship Group B .

Group B

Kazakhstan qualified to 2000 World Championship Group B .

Scoring leaders

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

External links

• Summary from the Women's Hockey Net
• Detailed summary from passionhockey.com