IIHF World Women's Challenge

The IIHF World Women's Challenge was the official name of a women's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF in 2002 for those national teams that had not qualified for the 2002 Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament or the previous qualifying round.

Although the tournament was open to national teams from all over the world and a replacement for the World Championships of the newly founded Divisions I and II, which were canceled due to the Olympic Games , only seven teams, all of them European teams, registered for the tournament, which was due to the previous World Cup in 2001 took place in two divisions. The Division I played with four nations from 8 to 10 February 2002 just before the start of the Olympic Games in the Dutch Tilburg , while in Division II, only three teams - Slovenia as the fourth team had canceled here in the short term - in English Kingston upon Hullafter the Salt Lake City Games (March 8-10, 2002).

Presumably due to the low interest shown by the national ice hockey associations, the IIHF decided not to host such a competition for the 2006 Olympic tournament.

Tournaments

Division I.

February 8, 2002	Denmark	1: 1 (0: 1, 1: 0, 0: 0)	France	Tilburg, Netherlands Spectators:
February 8, 2002	Netherlands	7: 0 (1: 0, 2: 0, 4: 0)	Hungary	Tilburg, Netherlands Spectators:
February 9, 2002	France	17: 0 (5: 0, 5: 0, 7: 0)	Hungary	Tilburg, Netherlands Spectators:
February 9, 2002	Netherlands	0: 7 (0: 3, 0: 1, 0: 3)	Denmark	Tilburg, Netherlands Spectators:
February 10, 2002	Hungary	0: 7 (0: 1, 0: 4, 0: 2)	Denmark	Tilburg, Netherlands Spectators:
February 10, 2002	Netherlands	0: 7 (0: 3, 0: 3, 0: 1)	France	Tilburg, Netherlands Spectators:

Pl.		Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	France	3	2	1	0	25: 01	5: 1
2.	Denmark	3	2	1	0	15: 01	5: 1
3.	Netherlands	3	1	0	2	07:14	2: 4
4th	Hungary	3	0	0	3	00:31	0: 6

Division II

March 8, 2002	Belgium	0: 2 (0: 0, 0: 1, 0: 1)	Italy	Kingston upon Hull, England spectators:
March 9, 2002	Great Britain	5: 2 (-: -, -: -, - :-)	Belgium	Kingston upon Hull, England spectators:
March 10, 2002	Great Britain	3: 4 (1: 3, 2: 0, 0: 1)	Italy	Kingston upon Hull, England spectators:

Pl.		Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Italy	2	2	0	0	06: 03	4-0
2.	Great Britain	2	1	0	1	08: 06	2: 2
3.	Belgium	2	0	0	2	02: 07	0: 4

Web links

• IIHF World Women's Challenge at hockeyarchives.info (French)