1999 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (Lower Divisions)

The 1999 IIHF World Women Championships Pool B were held between March 21-March 28, 1999 in the town of Colmar in France.
This was the first year of the Pool B tournament which saw Japan win the Pool with a 7-1 final game victory over Norway to promote them to the World Championship.
==1999 Qualification Tournament==
Group B contained the teams that failed to qualify for the main World Championships through the Qualification Process. These were:
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==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.
The winning team in the tournament was promoted to the 2000 World Championship, while the bottom two teams would be relegated to the 2001 Group B Qualification tournament.
==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	16	2 	+14	6
2. 	 	3 	1	0	2	5 	8 	-3 	2
3. 	 	3 	1	0	2	5 	11	-6 	2
4. 	 	3 	1	0	2	5 	10	-5 	2
====Results====
All times local
===Group B===
====Standings====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1. 	 	3 	2	1	0	14	3 	+11	5
2. 	 	3 	2	1	0	14	4 	+10	5
3. 	 	3 	1	0	2	6 	8 	-2 	2
4. 	 	3 	0	0	3	3 	22	-19	0
====Results====
All times local
==Playoff Round==
===Consolation Round 5-8 Place===
Netherlands relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.
Slovakia relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.
===Consolation Round 7-8 Place===
===Consolation Round 5-6 Place===
===Final round===
===Semifinals===
===Match for third place===
===Final===
==Champions==
==Final standings==
Rk.	Team	Notes
 	 	Promoted to the 2000 World Championships
 	 	
 	 	
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7. 	 	Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Group B Qualification
8. 	 	Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Group B Qualification
==2000 Qualification Tournament==
=== Group A===
 	Team	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points difference	Points
1	 	3 	3 	0 	0 	19 - 03 	6
2	 	3 	2 	0 	1 	32 - 05 	4
3	 	3 	1 	0 	2 	08 - 17 	2
4	 	3 	0 	0 	3 	01 - 35 	0
Italy qualified to 2000 World Championship Group B .
===Group B===
 	Team	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points difference	Points
1	 	2 	2 	0 	0 	09 - 03 	4
2	 	2 	0 	0 	2 	03 - 09 	0
Kazakhstan qualified to 2000 World Championship Group B .
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