2000 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (Lower Divisions)

The 2000 IIHF World Women's Championships Pool B were held between March 20-March 26, 2000 in the cities of Liepāja and Riga in Latvia. Kazakhstan won the tournament with an impressive performance winning all five of their matches. Additionally this advanced them to a qualification tournament for the Salt Lake City Olympics together with second place Switzerland, who narrowly edged out Norway for the privilege. Group 'B' changed its name to Division I following this season.
For the second year, a third tier tournament was played (called 2001 Pool B Qualification) in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. 
==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 teams would carry forward any matches against teams that that they have already played in the first round, leaving just two matches to be played in the final round.
The winning team in the tournament was promoted to the 2001 World Championship, while the bottom team would be relegated to the 2003 Group B Qualification tournament.
===First round===
    	Teams proceed to Final round
    	Teams sent to Consolation round
====Group A====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1. 	 	3 	3	0	0	8 	3 	+5 	6
2. 	 	3 	2	0	1	10	4 	+6 	4
3. 	 	3 	0	1	2	6 	9 	-3 	1
4. 	 	3 	0	1	2	2 	10	-8 	1
====Results====
All times local
====Group B====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1. 	 	3 	3	0	0	16	3 	+13	6
2. 	 	3 	1	1	1	8 	5 	+3 	3
3. 	 	3 	1	1	1	12	10	+2 	3
4. 	 	3 	0	0	3	2 	20	-18	0
====Results====
All times local
===Playoff Round===
====Consolation Round 5-8 Place====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
5. 	 	3 	2	1	0	12	5 	+7 	5
6. 	 	3 	1	2	0	7 	5 	+2 	4
7. 	 	3 	1	1	1	9 	5 	+4 	3
8. 	 	3 	0	0	3	4 	17	-13	0
====Results====
All times local
====Final Round 1-4 Place====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1. 	 	3 	3	0	0	7 	2 	+5 	6
2. 	 	3 	1	1	1	7 	4 	+3 	3
3. 	 	3 	1	1	1	6 	5 	+1 	3
4. 	 	3 	0	0	3	1 	10	-9 	0
====Results====
All times local
===Champions===
===Final standings===
Rk.	Team	Notes
 	 	Promoted to the 2001 World Championships
 	 	
 	 	
4. 	 	
5. 	 	
6. 	 	
7. 	 	
8. 	 	Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Division I Qualification
==2001 Qualification Tournament==
Two groups of four played a round robin with the group winners playing off for promotion to next years Division I tournament (Group B was renamed Division I). The tournament was played March 22–26, 2000 in Dunaújváros and Székesfehérvár Hungary. 
===First round===
    	Teams proceed to Final
====Group A====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1. 	 	3 	3	0	0	39	0 	+39	6
2. 	 	3 	2	0	1	11	10	+1 	4
3. 	 	3 	1	0	2	6 	14	-8 	2
4. 	 	3 	0	0	3	3 	35	-32	0
====Results====
All times local
====Group B====
Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1. 	 	3 	2	1	0	14	5 	+9 	5
2. 	 	3 	2	0	1	14	7 	+7 	4
3. 	 	3 	1	1	1	6 	7 	-1 	3
4. 	 	3 	0	0	3	2 	17	-15	0
====Results====
All times local
===Final round===
====Match for seventh place====
====Match for fifth place====
====Match for third place====
====Final====
North Korea qualified for the 2001 World Championship Division I.
==References==
==External links==
* Summary from the Women's Hockey Net
* Detailed summary from passionhockey.com
* Official IIHF Group B page
* Official IIHF Group B Qualification page
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