2001 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (Lower Divisions)

The 2001 IIHF World Women Championships Pool B were held between March 20-March 25, 2001 in the city of Briancon in France. Switzerland won the tournament with a narrow 2-1 victory over Japan in the final.
==2001 Qualification Tournament==
Continuing the format from the previous year, the five teams that were ranked 2nd to 7th stayed in Group B, being joined by the winner of the qualification tournament and the relegated team from the World Championship.
* - Finished 7th in 2000 Group B
* - Finished 4th in 2000 Group B
* - Finished 5th in 2000 Group B
* - Finished 8th and relegated from 2000 World Championship
* - Finished 6th in 2000 Group B
* - Finished 3rd in 2000 Group B
* - Winners of Qualification Tournament
* - Finished 2nd in 2000 Group B
==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. In the placing rounds, the first place teams played each other for the Final, the 2nd places for the Match for third place etc.
The winning team in the tournament was promoted to the 2001 World Championship, while the bottom two teams would be relegated to the 2003 Group B Qualification tournament.
==First round==
    	Teams proceed to Final
    	Teams proceed to Match for third place
    	Teams sent to Consolation round
===Group A===
====Standings====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1. 	 	3 	1	2	0	10	8 	+2 	4
2. 	 	3 	1	1	1	10	14	-4 	3
3. 	 	3 	1	1	1	7 	8 	-1 	3
4. 	 	3 	1	0	2	10	7 	+3 	2
====Results====
All times local
===Group B===
====Standings====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1. 	 	3 	3	0	0	16	2 	+14	6
2. 	 	3 	1	1	1	9 	7 	+2 	3
3. 	 	3 	1	1	1	6 	8 	+2 	3
4. 	 	3 	0	0	3	2 	16	-14	0
====Results====
All times local
==Playoff Round==
===Consolation Round 7-8 Place===
===Consolation Round 5-6 Place===
===Match for third place===
===Final===
==Scoring leaders==
Player 	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-
Rachel Rochat 	5 	4	4	8 	4 	7
Christine Duchamp 	5 	3	5	8 	4 	6
Gwenola Personne 	5 	5	2	7 	2 	5
Inese Geca-Miljone	5 	5	2	7 	2 	-1
Marianne Dahlstrom	5 	1	6	7 	0 	3
==Goaltending leaders==
Player 	Mins	GA	SOG	GAA 	SV%
Nayalya Trunova 	300 	4 	90 	0.80	.956
Patricia Sautter 	299 	6 	111	1.20	.946
Hege Moe 	299 	7 	106	1.41	.934
Lolita Andrisevska	300 	13	177	2.60	.926
Birgitte Andersen 	296 	11	138	2.23	.920
==Champions==
==Final standings==
Rk.	Team	Notes
 	 	Promoted to the 2003 World Championships
 	 	
 	 	
4. 	 	
5. 	 	
6. 	 	
7. 	 	Relegated to the 2003 World Championships Division II
8. 	 	Relegated to the 2003 World Championships Division II
==2003 Qualification Tournament==
===Group A (Romania)===
 	Team	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points difference	Points
1	 	4 	4 	0 	0 	27 - 04 	8
2	 	4 	3 	0 	1 	33 - 04 	6
3	 	4 	2 	0 	2 	12 - 16 	4
4	 	4 	1 	0 	3 	12 - 20 	2
5	 	4 	0 	0 	4 	02 - 42 	0
Netherlands and Italy qualified in 2003 World Championship Division II
===Group B (Slovenia)===
 	Team	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points difference	Points
1	 	4 	4 	0 	0 	48 - 02 	8
2	 	4 	3 	0 	1 	29 - 06 	6
3	 	4 	2 	0 	2 	13 - 15 	4
4	 	4 	1 	0 	3 	07 - 28 	2
5	 	4 	0 	0 	4 	03 - 50 	0
Slovakia and Great Britain qualified in 2003 World Championship Division II
Category:IIHF Women's World Ice Hockey Championships
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