1999 Women's World Floorball Championships

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]

1999 Women's World Floorball Championships

Tournament details
Host country	Sweden
Dates	9–15 May 1999
Teams	12
Final positions
Champions	Finland (1st title)
Runners-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)
Awards
MVP	Anna-Maija Keränen (FIN)
← 1997 2001 → All statistics correct as of 2014-06-25.

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	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	2	2	0	0	14	2	+12	4
Switzerland	2	1	0	1	7	5	+2	2
Germany	2	0	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	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Norway	3	3	0	0	23	4	+19	6
Finland	3	2	0	1	30	9	+21	4
Czech Republic	3	1	0	2	8	19	−11	2
Latvia	3	0	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)

Division B

Results

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Austria	4	3	1	0	20	15	+5	7
Australia	4	2	1	1	15	14	+1	5
Denmark	4	1	1	2	17	14	+3	3
Japan	4	0	3	1	15	16	−1	3
Singapore	4	1	0	3	12	20	−8	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

9 May 1999 17:00	Australia	5–4 (1–2, 1–2, 3–0)	Singapore	Borlänge

9 May 1999 16:30	Japan	5–5 (2–1, 1–2, 2–2)	Austria	Borlänge

10 May 1999 14:30	Austria	6–5 (3–0, 1–1, 2–4)	Australia	Borlänge

10 May 1999 14:00	Singapore	2–7 (1–2, 1–1, 0–4)	Denmark	Borlänge

11 May 1999 14:00	Australia	2–2 (0–1, 1–0, 1–1)	Japan	Borlänge

11 May 1999 14:30	Denmark	2–3 (1–2, 0–0, 1–1)	Austria	Borlänge

12 May 1999 14:30	Japan	6–6 (0–2, 5–2, 1–2)	Denmark	Borlänge

12 May 1999 14:00	Austria	6–3 (2–0, 3–1, 1–2)	Singapore	Borlänge

13 May 1999 11:00	Singapore	3–2 (2–0, 0–2, 1–0)	Japan	Borlänge

13 May 1999 11:30	Australia	3–2 (0–1, 2–1, 1–0)	Denmark	Borlänge

Statistics

Top scorers

	Player	G	A	P
1	Jill Quek (SIN)	7	4	11
2	Sachi Yokoe (JPN)	6	3	9
3	Jutta Haberrmann (AUT)	5	4	9
4	Gabriele Leitner (AUT)	6	1	7
5	Louise Strøbech (DEN)	5	2	7
6	Miho Koike (JPN)  Chikae Ogawa (JPN)	4	3	7
8	Elizabeth Privschek (AUT)	2	5	7
9	Gerlinde Weishaupt (AUT)	5	1	6
10	Sam Gill (AUS)	2	3	5

Final rankings

Division A  Finland   Switzerland  Sweden 4  Norway 5  Czech Republic 6  Germany 7  Latvia *Because of their withdrawal, Russia were relegated to division B for 2001.

Division B 1  Austria 2  Australia 3  Denmark 4  Japan 5  Singapore *Austria is promoted to division A for 2001.