WOMEN'S WORLD ICE HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP INFORMATION ================================================= This page is now available in HTML at: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andria/WWC.html ************************************************************************ There have been 3 official IIHF sanctioned Women's World Championships so far (1990, 1992, and 1994), so the next World Championship was to be held in 1996. However, since Women's hockey has been accepted into the 1998 Winter Olympics, (as a full medal sport, for the first time), the next World Championship will serve as a qualifier and thus has been postponed until 1997. The top 5 teams from the 1997 World Championship, plus the host country, Japan, will qualify to attend the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. There have been three official IIHF sanctioned Women's World Hockey Championships so far. The gold, silver, and bronze were won by Canada, USA, and Finland, respectively, at all 3 World Championships. These 3 world championships were held at the following locations: 1990 WWC - Ottawa, Canada 1992 WWC - Tampere, Finland 1994 WWC - Lake Placid, USA There will be a Pacific Rim Competition in 1995 and in 1996. Canada, USA, China and Japan will compete in this tournament. There will also be European Championships (A and B Divisions) during these "non World Championship" years. The next Women's World Championship will be held in Kitchener, Canada in 1997. Women's hockey is an official Olympic Sport for the 1998 Winter Olympics. Below is a list of some upcoming international women's hockey events. See my other web pages for the results of these events, if they have already taken place. 1995 Pacific Rim competition: Canada, USA, China and Japan (San Jose, California from April 1st-8th, 1995) 1996 Pacific Rim competition: Canada, USA, China and Japan (Vancouver, Canada, 1996) 1997 Women's World Championship: top 8 countries (Kitchener, Canada, 1997) 1998 Winter Olympics: number of countries TBA (Nagano, Japan, 1998) The top five teams from the European A Championship qualify to attend the World Championships. The top team from the European B Championship moves up to the European A Championship the following year, and the bottom team in the European A Championship moves down to the European B Championship the following year. Finland won the 1995 A European Championship, and Russia won the 1995 B European Championship. This means that Russia will compete in the A European Championship (for the first time ever) in 1996. 1995 A European Championship: Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Latvia (Riga, Latvia, March 19-26 1995) 1995 B European Championship: (pool A: Denmark, GB, Solvakia, Holland) (pool B: France, Ukraine, Russia, Czech) (pool A: Odense, Denmark, March 27-30 1995) (pool B: Esbjerg, Denmark, March 27-30 1995) (final: Copenhagen, Denmark, March 31 1995) 1996 A European Championship: Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Russia (Russia, March 23-29 1996) There is also an Asian Championship which determines which country will represent Asia at the World Championships. Japan qualified in 1990, and China qualified in 1992 and in 1994. The other country which competes at the Asian Championship is Korea. Canada and the United States do not have to attend any preliminary qualification tournaments in order to compete at the World Championships. Both countries automatically represent North America and are currently ranked number one and number two, respectively, in the world. ************************************************************************ THE REMAINDER OF THIS FILE IS COMPRISED OF INFORMATION TAKEN FROM NEWSLETTERS THAT ARE SENT TO ALL CURRENT AND FORMER PLAYERS OF TEAM CANADA. THESE NEWSLETTERS ARE SENT OUT TO US EVERY 2 OR 3 MONTHS. SOME OF THIS INFORMATION IS NOW OUTDATED, BUT YOU MAY STILL FIND IT INTERESTING TO READ. THE NEWSLETTERS ARE LISTED FROM MOST RECENT TO LEAST RECENT. ************************************************************************ CANADIAN WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM NEWLETTER: FALL 1994 =================================================== Team Canada has announced the six coaches who will comprise the Women's National Team Coaching Pool. These six coaches are: (1) Melody Davidson (assistant coach of Team Canada 94) (2) Julie Healey (from Montreal) (3) Karen Hughes (current coach of U of Toronto women) (4) Shannon Miller (assistant coach of Team Canada 92 and 94) (5) Rick Polutnik (head coach of Team Canada 92) (6) Daniel Sauvageau (from Montreal) Information on upcoming International events: Other information from the Newsletter is that the Pacific Rim Tournament will be in San Jose, California from April 1-8, 1995. The USA is staging a North American challenge tournament March 9-15, 1995, in Lake Placid and would like a senior Canadian club team of 18 years and over to participate. We will be discussing this at the Female Council in November in Ottawa. The USA Women's Under 18 team will be coming together to train in Lake Placid in July and would like to play two games somewhere in Eastern Ontario or Quebec in July 1995. We will also be discussing this at the Female Council in November. ************************************************************************ CANADIAN WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM NEWLETTER: SUMMER 1994 ===================================================== Here is some information about the Pacific Rim Tournament that will be held in 1995 and 1996 (the years when there are no World Championships) that I received from the CAHA ... At the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) meetings in June 1994, a small group was asked to review women's international events. They came back to the council with the following proposal: 1995 Pacific Rim competition: Canada, USA, China and Japan 1996 Pacific Rim competition: Canada, USA, China and Japan 1997 Women's World Championship The rationale seems to have been that the fairest manner for teams to qualify for the 1998 Olympic Games was through the World Championship. In order for this to be an accurate measure, it could not take place two years before the Olympics (i.e., not in 1996, when the next World Championship was originally scheduled). The second point was that Japan needs help in raising their standard of play as host country and both China and Japan deserve more international competition, hence the Pacific Rim. The bidding process for the host site of the Women's World Championships in Canada in 1997 will continue as planned with a site to be announced this Fall. Quebec, Ontario, BC, Alberta, and the Maritimes have each submitted the name of a city which will be considered. [New: Kitchener, Canada has been announced as the site of the 1997 WWC. The other 2 locations being considered were: St. John, NB and Kamloops, BC].] The Pacific Rim was to be discussed at an IIHF Council meeting in early July 94, and we should know soon where and when it will be held in 1995. The High Performance Plan is currently being revised to accommodate these changes, which give us a more gradual build up to 1998. Included in the plan will also be a competition with Finland and possibly the USA and we are talking to both of these countries at the moment to set up some dates. ************************************************************************ CANADIAN WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM NEWLETTER: SPRING 1994 ===================================================== Here is some information about the next World Championships (1997) and the Pacific Rim tournament which was part of the National Team Bulletin. The CAHA has asked the IIHF to change the date of the Women's World Championships to early February (instead of mid-April) for three reasons ... (1) It is almost impossible to get good television coverage in March or early April because of competition with the NHL playoffs and the start of baseball. (2) They would like to change the program prior to the Winter Olympic Games in 1998, which will also be held in February. (3) They feel that players are less likely to arrive at the World Championships tired and injured if they compete mid-season rather than after their league play is over. The issue of reinstating body checking came up and a decision was made to leave it as it is, but develop more supporting material to explain it clearly and perhaps a video illustrating the rule. If you watched the recent women's world championships on TV (held in Lake Placid from April 11-17 1994), you would have probably noticed that quite a bit of body checking was allowed, although it was not supposed to be. Japan has asked for a Pacific Rim (Canada, USA, Japan, and China) competition in January 1995. This has been confirmed. Currently there is an Asian Championship (with Japan, Korea, and China) to determine the Asian representative at the World Championships. If the Pacific Rim takes place, I would guess that the top 3 teams (most likely USA, Canada and China) will be allowed to compete at the following year. That would mean that the 8 teams to compete at the World Championships would be determined as follows: - Top 3 countries from the Pacific Rim Championship (usually Canada, USA, China) - Top 5 countries from the European A Championship (usually Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switzerland) ************************************************************************ THIS FILE IS MAINTAINED BY: andria@sys.toronto.edu (Andria Hunter) ============================================================================== | ... She shoots! ...... 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