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

1999 IIHF World Women's Championship

Pool B
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	March 21 - March 28
Teams	8
Venue(s)	Colmar (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	133 (6.65 per match)
Attendance	13,850

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:

• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• France
• Japan
• Latvia
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Slovakia

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.	Japan	3	3	0	0	16	2	+14	6
2.	Norway	3	1	0	2	5	8	-3	2
3.	Denmark	3	1	0	2	5	11	-6	2
4.	Latvia	3	1	0	2	5	10	-5	2

Results

All times local

March 22, 1999 4:30pm

Latvia

3 – 1 ( 1 - 0, 1 - 0, 1 - 1)

Denmark

Colmar Attendance: 250

Game reference

March 22, 1999 8:00pm

Norway

0 – 4 ( 0 - 1 , 0 - 2, 0 - 1)

Japan

Colmar Attendance: 250

Game reference

March 24, 1999 4:30pm

Latvia

2 – 6 ( 1 - 2, 0 - 1, 0 - 2)

Japan

Colmar Attendance: 200

Game reference

March 24, 1999 8:00pm

Denmark

4 – 2 ( 1 - 0 , 3 - 1, 0 - 1)

Norway

Colmar Attendance: 300

Game reference

March 25, 1999 5:30pm

Norway

3 – 1

Latvia

Colmar

Game reference

March 25, 1999 9:00pm

Japan

6 – 0

Denmark

Colmar

Game reference

Group B

Standings

Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1.	France	3	2	1	0	14	3	+11	5
2.	Czech Republic	3	2	1	0	14	4	+10	5
3.	Slovakia	3	1	0	2	6	8	-2	2
4.	Netherlands	3	0	0	3	3	22	-19	0

Results

All times local

March 21, 1999 5:00pm

Czech Republic

9 – 0 ( 4 - 0 , 1 - 0 , 4 - 0 )

Netherlands

Colmar Attendance: 1000

Game reference

March 21, 1999 8:30pm

France

3 – 0 ( 0 - 0 , 2 - 0 , 1 - 0 )

Slovakia

Colmar Attendance: 1300

Game reference

March 23, 1999 4:30pm

Slovakia

2 – 3 ( 1 - 1 , 1 - 0 , 0 - 2 )

Czech Republic

Colmar Attendance: 250

Game reference

March 23, 1999 8:30pm

France

9 – 1 ( 4 - 1 , 2 - 0 , 3 - 0 )

Netherlands

Colmar Attendance: 1000

Game reference

March 25, 1999 10:30am

Netherlands

2 – 4 ( 0 - 0 , 1 - 4 , 1 - 2 )

Slovakia

Colmar Attendance: 1350

Game reference

March 25, 1999 2:00pm

Czech Republic

2 – 2 ( 0 - 0 , 2 - 1 , 0 - 1 )

France

Colmar Attendance: 1350

Game reference

Playoff Round

Consolation Round 5-8 Place

March 27, 1999 10:30am

Denmark

9 – 1

Netherlands

Colmar

Game reference

Netherlands relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.

March 27, 1999 2:00pm

Latvia

8 – 0

Slovakia

Colmar

Game reference

Slovakia relegated to 2001 Group B Qualification.

Consolation Round 7-8 Place

March 28, 1999 9:30am

Slovakia

8 – 7

Netherlands

Colmar

Game reference

Consolation Round 5-6 Place

March 28, 1999 1:00pm

Latvia

1 – 4

Denmark

Colmar

Game reference

Final round

					Semi finals				Finals
					27 March 1999				28 March 1999
	Group A		1st		Japan	2
	Group B		2nd		Czech Republic	1			Gold Medal Game
									Japan	7
									Norway	1
	Group B		1st		France	2
	Group A		2nd		Norway	3
									Bronze Medal Game
									France	5
									Czech Republic	4

Semifinals

March 27, 1999 5:30pm

Japan

2 – 1

Czech Republic

Colmar

Game reference

March 27, 1999 9:00pm

France

2 – 3

Norway

Colmar

Game reference

Match for third place

March 28, 1999 4:30pm

France

5 – 4

Czech Republic

Colmar

Game reference

Final

March 28, 1999 8:00pm

Japan

7 – 1

Norway

Colmar

Game reference

Champions

1999 IIHF World Women Championship Pool B Winners
Japan 1st title

Final standings

Rk.	Team	Notes
	Japan	Promoted to the 2000 World Championships
	Norway
	France
4.	Czech Republic
5.	Latvia
6.	Denmark
7.	Slovakia	Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Group B Qualification
8.	Netherlands	Relegated to the 2001 World Championships Group B Qualification

2000 Qualification Tournament

Group A

	Team	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points difference	Points
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	19 - 03	6
2	United Kingdom	3	2	0	1	32 - 05	4
3	Hungary	3	1	0	2	08 - 17	2
4	South Africa	3	0	0	3	01 - 35	0

Italy qualified to 2000 World Championship Group B .

19 March 1999
	Hungary	6-0	South Africa

19 March 1999
	Italy	4-1	United Kingdom

20 March 1999
	Hungary	1-8	Italy

20 March 1999
	South Africa	0-22	United Kingdom

21 March 1999
	South Africa	1-7	Italy

21 March 1999
	Hungary	1-9	United Kingdom

Group B

	Team	Games	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points difference	Points
1	Kazakhstan	2	2	0	0	09 - 03	4
2	North Korea	2	0	0	2	03 - 09	0

Kazakhstan qualified to 2000 World Championship Group B .

19 March 1999
	North Korea	3-4	Kazakhstan

21 March 1999
	Kazakhstan	5-0	North Korea