1999 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships

The 1999 IIHF World Women Championships was held between March 8-March 14, 1999 in the city of Espoo in Finland. Team Canada won their 5th consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the United States in a repeat of the previous four finals. Canada skated to a solid 3-1 victory in the final to take the gold with a solid performance that saw them winning all five games.

Finland picked up their fifth consecutive bronze medal, with a win over Sweden who had their strongest performance since 1992.

1999 Qualification Tournament
The 1999 tournament created the format that has remained to the present, as the World Championships was greatly expanded to incorporate the European Championships and the Pacific Qualification Tournaments and there were a series of Qualification Tournaments Held to assign teams places in this first year, with the standard Promotion and Relegation model following after that.


 * - Qualified as 2nd in 1998 Olympic Games
 * - Qualified as 4th in 1998 Olympic Games
 * - Qualified as 3rd in 1998 Olympic Games
 * - Qualified as 1st in 1999 World Championship Qualification
 * - Qualified as 3rd in 1999 World Championship Qualification
 * - Qualified as 2nd in 1999 World Championship Qualification
 * - Qualified as 5th in 1998 Olympic Games
 * - Qualified as 1st in 1998 Olympic Games

Standings
Czech Republic and France advanced to the Final Qualification Tournament. Slovakia and Netherlands qualified for Group B.

Standings
Germany qualified for the World Championship. Russia advanced to the Playoff. France and Denmark qualified for Group B.

Standings
Suitzerland qualified for the World Championship. Norway advanced to the Playoff. Czech Republic and Latvia qualified for Group B.

Playoff
The playoff was held two days after the main tournaments were finished in the town of Zuchwil in Switzerland

Russia qualified for the World Championship. Norway qualified for Group B.

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.

Results
All times local

Results
All times local

World Championship Group B
In addition to the main World Championships, this year saw the first running of World Championship Group B, which replaced the European Championships. Eight further teams played in this competition, hosted by France in the town of Colmar. won the tournament defeating in the final 7-1 to win the competition and to ensure their Promotion to the main World Championship in 2000.

Directorate Awards

 * Goalie: Sami Jo Small, (Canada)
 * Defender: Kirsi Hanninen, (Finland)
 * Forward: Jenny Schmigdall, (United States)