Women's Ice Hockey World Championship 2021
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The top division of the Women's Ice Hockey World Championship 2021 is expected to take place in the Canadian cities of Halifax and Truro in the province of Nova Scotia . In the previous year, the 20th tournament in the top division was canceled due to the Covid-19 epidemic . The intended venues are the Scotiabank Center in Halifax with 10,595 seats and the Rath Eastlink Community Center in Truro, which can seat 3,100 spectators.
The tournaments of Division I and Division II Group A were also canceled in the previous year. The Division I Group A and Division II Group A tournaments were awarded to the hosts of the canceled 2020 tournaments. The Division I Group B tournament, on the other hand, will take place in Beijing to prepare the venue for the Olympic tournament in 2022 . The winner of Division II B 2020, Australia was refused promotion to Group A because there was no relegation from Division II A. In contrast, the last of Division II B was relegated to Group III, the winner of Division III 2020 rose accordingly.
Participants, venues and periods
- Top Division: April 7-17, 2021 in Halifax and Truro , Nova Scotia , Canada
- Participants: Denmark (promoted 2019) , Germany , Finland , Japan , Canada , Russia , Switzerland , Czech Republic , Hungary (promoted 2019) , USA (defending champion)
- Division I.
- Group A: April 11-18, 2021 in Angers , France
- Group B: April 8-14, 2021 in Beijing , People's Republic of China
- Participants: People's Republic of China , Italy (relegated 2019) , Kazakhstan , Poland , Slovenia (promoted 2019) , South Korea
- Division II
- Group A: April 10-16, 2021 in Jaca , Spain
- Participants: Republic of China (Taiwan) (promoted 2019) , Great Britain , Latvia (relegated 2019) , Mexico , North Korea , Spain
- Group B: March 7-13, 2021 in Zagreb , Croatia
- Participants: Australia , Iceland , Croatia , New Zealand , South Africa (promoted 2020) , Turkey
- Group A: April 10-16, 2021 in Jaca , Spain
- Division III: March 15-21 in Kaunas , Lithuania
Top division
Ten national teams will take part in the tournament, playing in two performance-graded groups of five teams each. The group division was determined on the basis of the IIHF world rankings that were current after the 2019 World Cup .
Group A | Group B |
USA (1) | Japan (6) |
Canada (2) | Czech Republic (8) |
Finland (3) | Germany (9) |
Russia (4) | Denmark (11) |
Switzerland (5) | Hungary (14) |
mode
The mode corresponds to the one from 2019 . The ten participants are divided into two performance-graded groups of five teams. All teams initially play four games, after which all five teams in Group A and the three teams with the highest points in Group B qualified for the quarter-finals after the preliminary round. The last two teams in Group B were relegated to Division IA.
The teams in the quarterfinals each play a qualifying game for participation in the semi-finals. The winners of the two semi-finals qualify for the final. The teams eliminated in the quarter-finals determined the fifth participant in Group A in a further placement round in the following year.
Venues
Halifax |
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Truro | ||
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Scotiabank Center Capacity: 10,595 |
Rath Eastlink Community Center Capacity: 3,100 |
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See also
- U18 women's ice hockey world championship 2021
- Men's Ice Hockey World Championship 2021
- U20 Juniors Ice Hockey World Championship 2021
- Ice Hockey World Cup 2021 for the U18 juniors
Individual evidence
- ^ Adam Steiss: Women's Worlds canceled. In: iihf.com. International Ice Hockey Federation , March 7, 2020, accessed March 8, 2020 .