2000 IIHF Women's World Championship

The 2000 IIHF Women's World Championships was held April 3–9, 2000 in the Ontario towns of Mississauga, Barrie, Kitchener, London, Niagara Falls, Oshawa and Peterborough, Canada. Final games were played at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. Team Canada won their sixth consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the United States.

In one of the closest finals competed, Canada took the tournament with a 2–1 final win, in overtime. Finland picked up their sixth consecutive bronze medal, with a win over Sweden.

This year's tournament also counted as qualification for the Salt Lake Olympics. With six automatic berths available, all four semi-finalists were assured Olympic participation. In the consolation round China defeated Germany and Russia defeated Japan, to join them.

Teams

With the promotion and relegation format now in use, the top seven nations were joined by Japan, the winner of Group B in 1999.

• Canada
• China
• Finland
• Germany
• Japan
• Russia
• Sweden
• United States

Venue

Mississauga, Canada
Host Venue	Details
Hershey Centre Arena File:Hershey Centre - Interior.JPG Paramount Fine Foods Centre, 2015 (Hershey Centre Arena)	Location: Template:Flagicon Mississauga, Canada Constructed: 1998 Renamed: Paramount Fine Foods Centre Capacity: Ice Hockey: 5,612 (5,420 seated)⁣

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

Group A

Results

All times local

Group B

Results

All times local

Champions

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Scoring leaders

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-
Template:Flagicon Krissy Wendell	5	2	11	13	6	10
Template:Flagicon Stephanie O'Sullivan	5	5	7	12	2	12
Template:Flagicon Karyn Bye	5	8	2	10	2	12
Template:Flagicon Alana Blahoski	5	7	2	9	0	7
Template:Flagicon Jayna Hefford	5	5	3	8	4	5
Template:Flagicon Brandy Fisher	5	3	5	8	0	5
Template:Flagicon Natalie Darwitz	5	2	6	8	18	10
Template:Flagicon A.J. Mleczko	5	1	7	8	2	15
Template:Flagicon Hayley Wickenheiser	5	1	7	8	4	8
Template:Flagicon Katja Riipi	5	7	0	7	0	5

Goaltending leaders

Player	Mins	GA	GAA	SV%
Template:Flagicon Sami Jo Small	150:02	2	0.80	95.65
Template:Flagicon Sarah Tueting	120:00	1	0.50	94.44
Template:Flagicon Guo Hong	220:00	6	1.64	94.06
Template:Flagicon Kim St-Pierre	149:58	3	1.20	93.48
Template:Flagicon Tuula Puputti	238:23	9	2.27	92.56

Final standings

Rk.	Team	Notes
	Canada	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games
	United States	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games
	Finland	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games
4.	Sweden	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games
5.	Russia	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games
6.	China	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games
7.	Germany	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games Qualification
8.	Japan	Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Division I Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games Qualification

World Championship Group B

World Championship Group B was played again with an eight team tournament which was hosted by Latvia in Liepāja and Riga. Kazakhstan won the tournament winning the final stage round robin by 3 points to win the competition and to ensure their Promotion to the main World Championship in 2001.

Directorate Awards

• Goalie: Sami Jo Small, (Canada)
• Defender: Angela Ruggiero, (United States)
• Forward: Katja Riipi, (Finland)

External links

• Summary from the Women's Hockey Net
• Detailed summary from passionhockey.com
• Official IIHF page for the tournament