2000 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships

The 2000 IIHF World Women Championships was held April 3-April 9, 2000 in Mississauga, Barrie, Kitchener, London, Niagara Falls, Oshawa and Peterborough, Canada. Final games were played at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. Team Canada won their 6th consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the United States in a repeat of the previous five finals.

In one of the cloest finals competed, Canada took the tournament with a 2-1 final win, after overtime.

Finland picked up their sixth consecutive bronze medal, with a win over Sweden.

Teams
With the promotion and relegation format now in use, the top seven nations were joined by Japan, the winner of Group B in 1999.



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
World Championship Group B was played again with an eight team tournament which was hosted by Latvia in Liepaja and Riga. won the tournament winning the final stage round robin by 3 points to win the competition and to ensure their Promotion to the main World Championship in 2001.

Directorate Awards

 * Goalie: Sami Jo Small, (Canada)
 * Defender: Angela Ruggiero, (United States)
 * Forward: Katja Riipi, (Finland)