2008 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships

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The 2008 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships were held from April 4 to April 13, 2008 in Harbin, People's Republic of China.

It was be the 11th event, and was run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

Promotions and relegations reflect the results of the 2007 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships.

For the eleventh straight tournament, Canada met the United States in the gold-medal match and, for only the second time out of 11, the American team defeated the Canadians for the gold medal. Interestingly, this tournament is the only IIHF Women's tournament in which the host nation (in this case, China) failed to medal.

Contents 1 Pool A 1.1 Preliminary Round 1.1.1 Group A 1.1.2 Group B 1.1.3 Group C 1.2 Qualifying Round 1.2.1 Group D 1.2.2 Group E 1.3 Relegation Round 1.3.1 Group F 1.4 Medal Round 1.4.1 Bronze Medal Game 1.4.2 Gold/Silver Medal Game 2 Division I 3 Division II 4 Division III 5 Division IV 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Pool A

[edit] Preliminary Round

[edit] Group A

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Canada	2	2	0	0	0	19	1	6
Russia	2	1	0	0	1	6	11	3
China	2	0	0	0	2	3	16	0

All times local (GMT+8)

April 4, 2008 15:00
	Russia	1 – 8	Canada	Hongbo Arena
	E. Smolentseva 19:57		B. Kellar 10:41 (PP) G. Kingsbury 13:16 J. Botterill 32:50 M. Agosta 35:05 C. Piper 43:47 (PP) C. Ouellette 55:07 (PP) H. Wickenheiser 57:15 (PP) M. Agosta 57:28

April 5, 2008 15:00
	China	3 – 5	Russia	Hongbo Arena
	Sun R. 18:49 (PP) Sang H. 46:39 (PP) Sang H. 59:37 (PP)		S. Terentieva 16:49 E. Smolentseva 21:43 E. Smolentseva 25:17 I. Gavrilova 43:34 I. Gavrilova 59:56 (EN)

April 6, 2008 15:00
	Canada	11 – 0	China	Hongbo Arena
	C. Piper 8:21 J. Botterill 10:52 C. MacLeod 13:17 J. Botterill 13:42 C. Ouellette 25:00 M. Agosta 25:39 G. Apps 26:02 H. Wickenheiser 45:12 J. Hefford 46:31 H. Wickenheiser 50:35 S. Vaillancourt 53:34

[edit] Group B

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
United States	2	2	0	0	0	15	2	6
Switzerland	2	1	0	0	1	4	7	3
Germany	2	0	0	0	2	1	11	0

All times local (GMT+8)

April 4, 2008 19:00
	Germany	1 — 8	United States	Hongbo Arena
	M. Anwander 15:41		J. Potter 14:25 (PP) J. Potter 21:30 K. Thatcher 29:30 M. Duggan 31:17 K. Thatcher 41:58 N. Darwitz 43:11 M. Duggan 52:42 S. Parsons 56:08

April 5, 2008 19:00
	Switzerland	3 – 0	Germany	Hongbo Arena
	S. Marty 15:35 (SH) L. Ruhnke 23:27 L. Nussbaum 39:02 (PP)

April 6, 2008 19:00
	United States	7 – 1	Switzerland	Hongbo Arena
	C. Cahow 07:34 (PP) K. Stack 21:28 G. Marvin 37:17 (PP) N. Darwitz 42:06 (PP) J. Potter 49:41 (PP) M. Engstrom 50:49 M. Duggan 57:12		M. Hafliger 24:21 (PP)

[edit] Group C

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Finland	2	1	1	0	0	9	3	5
Sweden	2	1	0	1	0	7	3	4
Japan	2	0	0	0	2	1	11	0

All times local (GMT+8)

April 4, 2008 19:00
	Japan	0 – 5	Sweden	Baqu Arena
			A. Lorsell 02:51 K. Myren 17:04 K. Myren 30:18 M. Rooth 37:01 (PP) M. Rooth 48:23

April 5, 2008 19:00
	Finland	6 – 1	Japan	Baqu Arena
	A. Helin 23:55 H. Pelttari 28:05 K. Kovalainen 44:23 (PP) A. Helin 44:42 (PP) M. Saarinen 50:00 (PP) A. Helin 52:02 (PP)		E. Wada 26:35 (PP)

April 6, 2008 19:00
	Sweden	2 – 3	Finland	Baqu Arena
	K. Timglas 07:02 (PP) E. Eliasson 50:56		M. Voutilainen 05:11 (PP) M. Saarinen 42:01 M. Pehkonen 63:00 (PP)

[edit] Qualifying Round

[edit] Group D

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
United States	2	1	0	1	0	4	3	4
Canada	2	1	0	0	1	6	6	3
Finland	2	0	1	0	1	3	4	2

All times local (GMT+8)

April 8, 2008 12:00
	United States	0 – 1	Finland	Hongbo Arena
			H. Pelttari 63:42

April 9, 2008 12:00
	Finland	2 – 4	Canada	Hongbo Arena
	E. Laaksonen 13:49 M. Pehkonen 46:41		J. Hefford 3:29 S. Vaillancourt 31:23 (PP) S. Vaillancourt 32:01 (PP) K. Weatherston 37:25

April 10, 2008 12:00
	Canada	2 – 4	United States	Hongbo Arena
	J. Hefford 4:21 (PP) K. Bechard 16:08		N. Darwitz 15:34 (PP) C. Cahow 26:33 (PP) M. Duggan 48:24 N. Darwitz 59:36 (EN)

[edit] Group E

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Switzerland	2	1	1	0	0	6	4	5
Sweden	2	1	0	1	0	6	5	4
Russia	2	0	0	0	2	2	5	0

All times local (GMT+8)

April 8, 2008 15:30
	Switzerland	4 – 3	Sweden	Hongbo Arena
	K. Lehmann 17:59 (SH) S. Marty 19:49 K. Lehmann 28:46 K. Lehmann 65:00		J. Asserholt 18:30 (PP) I. Jordansson 22:02 T. Enstrom 34:15

April 9, 2008 15:30
	Sweden	3 – 1	Russia	Hongbo Arena
	K. Myren 1:39 A. Edstrand 35:06 K. Timglas 44:10 (PP)		E. Smolentseva 56:12 (PP)

April 10, 2008 15:30
	Russia	1 – 2	Switzerland	Hongbo Arena
	A. Kapustin 35:41 (PP)		S. Marty 11:26 S. Marty 20:54 (PP2)

[edit] Relegation Round

[edit] Group F

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Japan	2	1	0	0	1	4	3	3
China	2	1	0	0	1	5	5	3
Germany	2	1	0	0	1	4	5	3

All times local (GMT+8)

April 8, 2008 19:00
	Germany	2 – 1	Japan	Hongbo Arena
	B. Evers 2:47 M. Anwander 3:32		Y. Adachi 10:36 (PP)

April 9, 2008 19:00
	Japan	3 – 1	China	Hongbo Arena
	Y. Adachi 17:42 (PP) Y. Hirano 57:04 (PP) A. Fujii 59:20		Sun R. 41:47

April 10, 2008 19:00
	China	4 – 2	Germany	Hongbo Arena
	Jin F. 12:32 Wang L. 57:58 (PP) Sun R. 58:43 Zhang S. 59:20		S. Gotz 10:23 (PP) N. Ritter 23:46 (PP)

 Germany will be relegated to Division I for the 2009 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships.

[edit] Medal Round

[edit] Bronze Medal Game

All times local (GMT+8)

April 12, 2008 15:30
	Finland	4 – 1	Switzerland	Hongbo Arena
	M. Pehkonen 25:05 M. Saarinen 41:09 N. Tikkinen 46:25 J. Hiirikoski 55:00 (PP)		K. Lehmann 5:18

[edit] Gold/Silver Medal Game

All times local (GMT+8)

April 12, 2008 19:00
	United States	4 – 3	Canada	Hongbo Arena
	J. Potter 8:08 (PP) N. Darwitz 17:41 J. Potter 30:54 (PP) N. Darwitz 38:30		S. Vaillancourt 1:57 K. Weatherston 48:38 J. Botterill 49:48 (PP)

[edit] Division I

The following teams took part of the Division I tournament, which was played in Ventspils, Latvia at Ventspils OC Ice Hall from March 10 through March 16, 2008.

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Kazakhstan	5	4	0	0	1	14	8	12
Slovakia	5	3	1	0	1	14	11	11
Czech Republic	5	2	1	0	2	12	11	8
France	5	2	0	0	3	7	12	6
Norway	5	1	0	1	3	11	13	4
Latvia	5	1	0	1	3	9	12	4

 Kazakhstan is promoted to the main tournament and  Latvia is relegated to Division II for the 2009 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships.^[1]

Team	KAZ	SVK	CZE	FRA	NOR	LAT
KAZ		5 - 1	3 - 1	2 - 1	3 - 2	1 - 3
SVK	1 - 5		2 - 1	5 - 1	3 - 2	3 - 2(OT)
CZE	1 - 3	1 - 2		3 - 1	3 - 2(OT)	4 - 3
FRA	1 - 2	1 - 5	1 - 3		3 - 2	1 - 0
NOR	2 - 3	2 - 3	2 - 3(OT)	2 - 3		3 - 1
LAT	3 - 1	2 - 3(OT)	3 - 4	0 - 1	1 - 3

Fixtures

[edit] Division II

The following teams took part in the Division II tournament, held in Vierumäki, Finland at Vierumäki Ice Rink from March 25 to March 30, 2008.

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Austria	5	5	0	0	0	22	10	15
Denmark	5	4	0	0	1	25	7	12
North Korea	5	3	0	0	2	21	10	9
Italy	5	1	1	0	3	15	17	5
Netherlands	5	1	0	1	3	10	15	4
Australia	5	0	0	0	5	5	39	0

 Austria is promoted to Division I and  Australia is relegated to Division III for the 2009 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships

Team	AUT	DEN	PRK	ITA	NED	AUS
AUT		3 - 2	4 - 0	6 - 4	9 - 1	6 - 2
DEN	2 - 3		5 - 1	3 - 2	3 - 2	12 - 1
PRK	0 - 4	1 - 5		6 - 1	4 - 0	10 - 0
ITA	4 - 6	2 - 3	1 - 6		3 - 2 (OT)	5 - 0
NED	1 - 9	2 - 3	0 - 4	2 - 3 (OT)		6 - 2
AUS	2 - 6	1 - 12	0 - 10	0 - 5	2 - 6

• 2008 Division II Official Tournament Reports
• Fixtures

[edit] Division III

The following teams took part in the Division III tournament, held in Miskolc, Hungary from from April 6 to April 12, 2008.

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Great Britain	5	4	1	0	0	29	7	14
Slovenia	5	4	0	1	0	27	6	13
Croatia	5	2	0	1	2	12	20	7
Belgium	5	2	0	0	3	12	16	6
Hungary	5	1	0	0	4	4	20	3
South Korea	5	0	1	0	4	7	22	2

 Great Britain is promoted to Division II and  South Korea is relegated to Division IV for the 2009 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships.

[edit] Division IV

The following teams took part in the Division IV tournament, held in Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania at Vakar Lajos Icerink from March 23 to March 29, 2008.

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	PTS
Iceland	5	5	0	0	0	30	5	15
New Zealand	5	4	0	0	1	37	9	12
Romania	5	2	0	1	2	25	16	7
Estonia	5	2	0	0	3	11	17	6
South Africa	5	1	1	0	3	15	24	5
Turkey	5	0	0	0	5	3	50	0

 Iceland is promoted to Division III for the 2009 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships .^[2]

Team	ISL	NZL	ROU	EST	RSA	TUR
ISL		5 - 1	4 - 3	3 - 0	9 - 1	9 - 0
NZL	1 - 5		7 - 2	4 - 1	9 - 1	16 - 0
ROU	3 - 4	2 - 7		8 - 0	3 - 4 (OT)	9 - 1
EST	0 - 3	1 - 4	0 - 8		2 - 1	8 - 1
RSA	1 - 9	1 - 9	4 - 3 (OT)	1 - 2		8 - 1
TUR	0 - 9	0 - 16	1 - 9	1 - 8	1 - 8

[edit] References

1. ^ Statistics
2. ^ Iceland’s women celebrating promotion

[edit] External links

• IIHF Official Site
• Women's Ice Hockey World Championship at RubaiSport

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