1990 IIHF Women's World Championship



The 1990 IIHF World Women's Championships were held March 19 to 25, 1990, at the Civic Centre in Ottawa, Canada. The Canadian team won the gold medal, theUnited States won silver, and Finland won bronze. This was the first IIHF-sanctioned international tournament in women's ice hockey. Fran Rider helped to organize the championships with no financial support from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. [1]

There was strong international attention directed at the games. The gold medal game packed 9000 people into the arena and drew over a million viewers on television.[citation needed]  For unknown reasons, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association decided that the Canadian team should wear pink and white uniforms instead of the expected red and white.[2]  While the experiment only lasted for this tournament, Ottawa was taken over by a "pink craze" during the championships. Restaurants had pink-coloured food on special, and pink became a popular colour for flowers and bow ties.[2]



Contents
[hide]  *1 Qualification Tournament  ==Qualification Tournament[edit] == The United States and Canadian teams qualified automatically.[3]  A tournament in Hong Kong took place between South Korea, Japan, China, India and Hong Kong. China won the tournament but declined their invitation, Japan went in their place.[4]  The 1989 European Women's Ice Hockey Championship served as the qualification tournament for this championship. The top five finishers in the top pool qualified. They were Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and West Germany.[3] ==Final tournament[edit] == ===Group stage[edit] === ====Group A[edit] ==== ====Group B<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==== ===Consolation round<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ====5-8 place<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==== ====7-8 place<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==== ====5-6 place<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==== ===Final round<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ====Semifinals<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==== ====3-4 place<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==== ====Final<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==== ==Rankings and statisctics<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ===Final rankings<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ===Scoring leaders<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;">Canada's Dawn McGuire was named MVP of the gold medal game. ==Bodychecking<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;">This is the only major international tournament in Women's ice hockey to allow bodychecking.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-kelly89_5-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  Before the tournament, bodychecking had been allowed in women's ice hockey in Europe. The European teams, knowing that they were less competitive than the North American teams, asked for bodychecking to be included.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-kelly89_5-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  For some reason, the Europeans failed to realize the fact that while European women learned to play with other women, most North American players learned to play with men. Consequently, North American players were bigger than European players and used to playing a rougher game. This added to the already significant mismatch between the squads.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]
 * 2 Final tournament
 * 2.1 Group stage
 * 2.1.1 Group A
 * 2.1.2 Group B
 * 2.2 Consolation round
 * 2.2.1 5-8 place
 * 2.2.2 7-8 place
 * 2.2.3 5-6 place
 * 2.3 Final round
 * 2.3.1 Semifinals
 * 2.3.2 3-4 place
 * 2.3.3 Final
 * 3 Rankings and statisctics
 * 3.1 Final rankings
 * 3.2 Scoring leaders
 * 4 Bodychecking
 * 5 See also
 * 6 Notes
 * 7 References
 * 8 External links
 * 1)  Canada
 * 2)  United States
 * 3)  Finland
 * 4)  Sweden
 * 5)   Switzerland
 * 6)  Norway
 * 7)  West Germany
 * 8)  Japan

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;">After this tournament, the International Ice Hockey Federation disallowed bodychecking in women's ice hockey.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-kelly89_5-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  It is currently an infraction punished with a minor or major and game misconduct penalty.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-IIHF_6-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;">In addition, the intermission between periods were twenty minutes instead of fifteen.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WHockey_net_general_info_3-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  This has since been abolished and changed to the usual fifteen minutes.