Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament

The 1998 Olympic women's ice hockey tournament was the first year that featured women in ice hockey competition. It was greatly anticipated that the women's gold medal match would feature Canada versus the United States. Canada was favored to come out on top as they had won all the competitions in previous years in women's hockey, with the United States perpetually finishing second, while no other national teams could match their level of play. However, the United States beat Canada in the final and became the first country to win gold in women's ice hockey at the Olympics.
There were no qualification tournaments, the host Japan played alongside the top five nations at the previous season's world championships.
==Preliminary round==
All times are local (UTC+9).
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==Final round==
===Bronze medal game===
===Gold medal game===
==Final rankings==
Rank	Team
 	
 	
 	
4 	
5 	
6 	
==Statistics==
===Scoring leaders===
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Player 	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Riikka Nieminen 	6 	7	5	12 	+14	4 	F
Danielle Goyette 	6 	8	1	9 	+10	10 	F
Karyn Bye 	6 	5	3	8 	+4 	4 	F
Cammi Granato 	6 	4	4	8 	+2 	0 	F
Katie King 	6 	4	4	8 	+10	2 	F
Gretchen Ulion 	6 	3	5	8 	3 	4 	F
Hayley Wickenheiser	6 	2	6	8 	+7 	4 	F
Thérèse Brisson 	6 	5	2	7 	+5 	6 	D
Laurie Baker 	6 	4	3	7 	+10	6 	F
Kirsi Hänninen 	6 	4	3	7 	+13	6 	D
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalties in Minutes; POS = Position
Source: eurohockey.com
===Leading goaltenders===
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.
Player 	TOI	GA	SA 	Sv% 	SO
Sarah Tueting 	210	4 	64 	93.75	1
Manon Rhéaume 	208	4 	54 	92.59	1
Charlotte Göthesson	120	5 	53 	90.57	1
Tuula Puputti 	271	7 	67 	89.55	1
Guo Hong 	350	16	150	89.33	0
TOI = Time on Ice (minutes); GA = Goals Against; SA = Shots Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; SO = Shutouts
==References==
==External links==
* Whockey – Women's Hockey 1998 Winter Olympics 
* SFRP Hockey Archine: Winter Olympic Games 1998 
* The Hockey Nut: Women's Olympic Hockey 1998 
* Hockeyarchives – Jeux Olympiques de Nagano 1998 Compétition féminine 
* – Championats du monde feminins 1997 
* la84 foundation – Nagano 1998 Official Report (182–187) 
* IIHF: Nagano 1998 in Web Archivessa 
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