 |
Last updated on February 1, 2009
Women The fifth sanctioned Women's World Hockey Championship, held in Espoo, Finland March 8-14, 1999. Top five teams from the 1998 Winter Olympics qualified (USA, Canada, Finland, China and Sweden) along with the top three teams from a qualification tournament
(Germany, Switzerland and Russia). Top two teams (*) in each group after preliminary round-robin advance to the medal round. Final Round Robin Standings| POOL A | W-L-T | Pts | GF | GA |
|---|
| *United States | 3-0-0 | 6 | 27 | 2 | | *Sweden | 2-1-0 | 4 | 10 | 12 | | China | 1-2-0 | 2 | 4 | 11 | | Russia | 0-3-0 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| POOL B | W-L-T | Pts | GF | GA |
|---|
| *Canada | 3-0-0 | 6 | 24 | 0 | | *Finland | 2-1-0 | 4 | 16 | 1 | | Germany | 1-2-0 | 2 | 5 | 26 | | Switzerland | 0-3-0 | 0 | 4 | 22 |
Medal Round| Canada 4 | Sweden 1 | | United States 3 | Finland 1 |
| Bronze Medal: Finland 8 | Sweden 2 | | Gold Medal: Canada 3 | United States 1 |
Scoring Leaders| | Gm | G | A | Pts | PM |
|---|
| Jenny Schmidgall, USA | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 0 | | Jayna Hefford, Canada | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0 | | Kirsi Hanninen, Finland | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 2 | | Petra Vaarakallio, Finland | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | | Sari Fisk, Finland | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 | | Karyn Bye, USA | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 2 | | Nancy Drolet, Canada | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0 | | Cammi Granato, USA | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | | Hayley Wickenheiser, Canada | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 8 | | Four tied with 7 points each. |
World All-Star Team (Selected by media) First team: G— Sami Jo Small, Canada; D— Sue Merz, USA; Kirsi Hanninen, Finland; F— Hayley Wickenheiser, Canada; Jayna Hefford, Canada; Jenny Schmidgall, USA.
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on Women from Infoplease:
- Women - Women Individual Points All-Around Carly Patterson, USA 38.387 Svetlana Khorkina, RUS 38.211 Nan ...
- Women - Women Individual Points All-Around Carly Patterson, USA 38.387 Svetlana Khorkina, RUS 38.211 Nan ...
- Women - Women's Swimming/Diving Winners of the 2008 Summer Olympics These are the medal winners in the ...
- Women - 2008 Women's Track & Field Event Time 100m Shelly-ann Fraser, Jamaica 10.78 Sherone Simpson ...
- Women - 2004 Women's Track & Field Event Time 100m Yuliya Nesterenko, BEL 10.93 Lauryn Williams, ...
|
|
