2001 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships

The 2001 IIHF World Women 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.
==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.
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==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. 	 	3 	3	0	0	29	1 	+28	6
2. 	 	3 	2	0	1	12	7 	+5 	4
3. 	 	3 	1	0	2	3 	17	-14	2
4. 	 	3 	0	0	3	3 	22	-19	0
====Results====
All times local
===Group B===
====Standings====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1. 	 	3 	3	0	0	35	0 	+35	6
2. 	 	3 	2	0	1	12	17	-5 	4
3. 	 	3 	0	1	2	6 	20	-14	1
4. 	 	3 	0	1	2	2 	18	-16	1
====Results====
All times local
==Playoff Round==
===Consolation Round 5-8 Place===
===Consolation Round 7-8 Place===
===Consolation Round 5-6 Place===
===Final Round===
===Semifinals===
===Match for third place===
===Final===
==Champions==
==Scoring leaders==
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
==Goaltending leaders==
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
==Final standings==
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8. 	 	Relegated to the 2003 World Championships Division I
==World Championship Group B==
World Championship Group B was played again with an eight team tournament which was hosted by Briancon in France. won the tournament with a 2-1 victory over too see them bounce straight back to the main World Championship in 2003.
==Directorate Awards==
*Goalie: Kim St. Pierre, (Canada)
*Defender: Karyn Bye, (United States)
*Forward: Jennifer Botterill, (Canada)
*Most Valuable Player: Jennifer Botterill, CanadaCollins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009-10, p.543, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6
==References==
Category:IIHF Women's World Ice Hockey Championships
Category:2001 in hockey