2000 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships

The 2000 IIHF World Women Championships was held April 3-April 9, 2000 in Mississauga, Barrie, Kitchener, London, Niagara Falls, Oshawa and Peterborough, Canada. Final games were played at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. Team Canada won their 6th consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the United States in a repeat of the previous five finals. 
In one of the cloest finals competed, Canada took the tournament with a 2-1 final win, after overtime.
Finland picked up their sixth consecutive bronze medal, with a win over Sweden.
==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.
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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	21	1 	+20	6
2. 	 	3 	1	1	1	11	5 	+6 	3
3. 	 	3 	1	1	1	5 	9 	-4 	3
4. 	 	3 	0	0	3	0 	22	-22	0
====Results====
All times local
===Group B===
====Standings====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1. 	 	3 	3	0	0	35	4 	+31	6
2. 	 	3 	2	0	1	14	6 	+8 	4
3. 	 	3 	1	0	2	8 	24	-16	2
4. 	 	3 	0	0	3	4 	27	-23	0
====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
Krissy Wendell 	5 	2	11	13 	6
Stephanie O'Sullivan	5 	5	7 	12 	2
Karyn Bye 	5 	8	2 	10 	2
Alana Blahoski 	5 	7	2 	9 	0
Jayne Hefford 	5 	5	3 	8 	4
Brandy Fisher 	5 	3	5 	8 	4
Natalie Darwitz 	5 	2	6 	8 	18
A. J Mleczko 	5 	1	7 	8 	2
Hayley Wickenheiser 	5 	1	7 	8 	4
Katja Riipi 	5 	7	0 	7 	0
==Goaltending leaders==
Player 	Mins	GA	GAA 	SV%
Sarah Tueting 	120 	1 	0.50	.944
Sami Small 	150 	2 	0.80	.957
Kim St-Pierre 	150 	3 	1.20	.935
Hong Guo 	220 	6 	1.64	.941
Tulla Puputti 	238 	9 	1.64	.926
Sara Decosta 	180 	7 	2.33	.883
Irina Gachennikova	220 	13	3.55	.852
Manuela Hirschbeck	218 	13	3.57	.904
Lotta Gothesson 	300 	19	3.80	.890
Tomoko Fujimoto 	210 	18	5.14	.851
==Final standings==
Rk.	Team	Notes
 	 	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games
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4. 	 	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games
5. 	 	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games
6. 	 	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games
7. 	 	Qualified for 2002 Winter Olympic Games Qualification
8. 	 	Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Group B
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 Liepaja and Riga. 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)Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009-10, p.542, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6
==References==
Category:IIHF Women's World Ice Hockey Championships
Category:2000 in hockey