1999 Women's World Floorball Championships

1999 Women's World Floorball Championships
Tournament details
Host country	Sweden
Dates	9–15 May 1999
Teams	12
Final positions
Champions	Finland (1st title)
Runner-up	Switzerland
Third place	Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	204 (8.5 per match)
Attendance	7,210 (300 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Linda Kristiansen (NOR)
MVP	Anna-Maija Keränen (FIN)
	← 1997 2001 →; All statistics correct as of 2014-06-25.

The 1999 Women's World Floorball Championships was the second world championship in women's floorball. The games were played in Borlänge, Sweden 9–15 May 1999. Finland won the tournament defeating Switzerland, 5–1, in the final-game and it was their first title. This also was the first time that the world championships were divided into two separate divisions, although all games were played at the same dates in Borlänge. Sweden won the bronze medals defeating Norway, 5–1, in the bronze medal game.^[1]

Australia, Denmark and Singapore made their first appearances in the women's floorball world championships.

Division A

Results

Originally there were planned to be two groups consisting of four teams each, but because of a withdrawal from Russia group A dropped to three teams. The two best placed teams in each group advance to play semifinals while the third best teams went to play the game for 5th place. Because of Russia's withdrawal, they were automatically ranked last place and were relegated to the B-division for the next championship.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	2	2	0	14	2	+12	4
Switzerland	2	1	1	7	5	+2	2
Germany	2	0	2	2	16	−14	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}


10 May 1999 16:30	Switzerland	6–1 (4–0, 2–1, 0–0)	Germany	Borlänge


11 May 1999 17:00	Sweden	4–1 (0–0, 1–1, 3–0)	Switzerland	Borlänge


12 May 1999 19:30	Germany	1–10 (0–4, 0–2, 1–4)	Sweden	Borlänge

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Norway	3	3	0	23	4	+19	6
Finland	3	2	1	30	9	+21	4
Czech Republic	3	1	2	8	19	−11	2
Latvia	3	0	3	6	35	−29	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}


10 May 1999 17:00	Finland	9–2 (3–0, 3–1, 3–1)	Czech Republic	Borlänge


10 May 1999 19:00	Norway	11–1 (4–0, 5–1, 2–0)	Latvia	Borlänge


11 May 1999 16:30	Czech Republic	5–3 (1–1, 4–0, 0–2)	Latvia	Borlänge


11 May 1999 19:30	Finland	2–5 (0–1, 0–1, 2–3)	Norway	Borlänge


12 May 1999 16:30	Norway	7–1 (1–1, 3–0, 3–0)	Czech Republic	Borlänge


12 May 1999 17:00	Latvia	2–19 (1–1, 1–7, 0–11)	Finland	Borlänge

Final stage

Semifinals			Finals

A1	Sweden	2(1)

B2	Finland	2(2)
			B2	Finland	3

			A2	Switzerland	1
B1	Norway	0

A2	Switzerland	4	Third place


			A1	Sweden	5

			B1	Norway	1


14 May 1999 14:00	Germany	4–8 (2–1, 0–4, 2–3)	Czech Republic	Borlänge


14 May 1999 17:00	Sweden	2–2 (a.e.t) (0–1, 2–0, 0–1, 0–0) Pen: 1–2	Finland	Borlänge


14 May 1999 20:00	Norway	0–4 (0–0, 0–0, 0–4)	Switzerland	Borlänge


15 May 1999 12:00	Sweden	5–1 (0–1, 3–0, 2–0)	Norway	Borlänge


15 May 1999 15:00	Finland	3–1 (0–1, 2–0, 1–0)	Switzerland	Borlänge

Statistics

Top scorers

	Player	G	A	P
1	Linda Kristiansen (NOR)	5	9	14
2	Birgitte Lersbryggen (NOR)	8	3	11
3	Jonna Kettunen (FIN)	7	1	8
4	Lise Johansen (NOR)	4	2	6
5	Satu Puustinen (FIN)	3	3	6
6	Marilla Puustinen (FIN)	2	4	6
7	Merja Pitkänen (FIN)	1	5	6
8	Camilla Granelid (SWE)	3	2	5
9	Ingrid Gigstad (NOR) Anne Averio (FIN)	3	1	4

All-star team

The inclusion of Laura Tomatis and Regula Kindhauser made them the first non-Nordic players to be included in the world championship history.

Goalkeeper:   Laura Tomatis (SUI)
Defender:   Lena Birath (SWE)
Defender:   Regula Kindhauser (SUI)
Centre:   Anna-Maija Keränen (FIN)
Forward:   Birgitte Lersbryggen (NOR)
Forward:   Susanna Tuominen (FIN)

MVP: Anna-Maija Keränen (FIN)