2003 Women's World Floorball Championships

2003 Women's World Floorball Championships
Tournament details
Host country	Switzerland
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Dates	17–25 May
Teams	18
Final positions
Champions	Sweden (2nd title)
Runner-up	Switzerland
Third place	Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	45
Goals scored	395 (8.78 per match)
Attendance	19,404 (431 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Anne Suomalainen (FIN) Johanna Ekeroth (SWE) Jonna Kettunen (FIN) (8 points)
MVP	Anne Suomalainen (FIN) Johanna Ekeroth (SWE)
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The 2003 Women's World Floorball Championships was the fourth world championship in women's floorball. The games were played in Bern, Gümligen and Wünnewil in Switzerland 17–24 May 2003. Sweden won the tournament, their second title defeating Switzerland, 8-1, in the final-game.^[1]

Italy, Malaysia and USA made their first appearances in the women's floorball world championships.

Division A

The two groups consists of the seven best placed teams in the previous world championships plus Russia who won the B-division in that tournament. With Norway beating Sweden in the first round of the groupstage, Sweden received their first loss against another team than Finland. Despite this, Sweden ended up winning the tournament. With Germany losing the 7th place match to the Czech Republic, Germany were relegated to division B for the next tournament.

The two best placed teams of each group advances to semifinals while the two lower placed teams plays placement matches for 5th and 7th place respectively.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Finland	3	3	0	23	3	+20	6
Switzerland	3	2	1	17	6	+11	4
Russia	3	1	2	6	25	−19	2
Czech Republic	3	0	3	6	22	−16	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}


18 May 2003 15:00	Finland	3 - 1 (1-0, 1-1, 1-0)	Switzerland	Gümlingen


19 May 2003 14:00	Czech Republic	2 - 5 (0-2, 1-2, 1-1)	Russia	Gümlingen


20 May 2003 20:00	Switzerland	8 - 2 (3-1, 1-0, 4-1)	Czech Republic	Gümlingen


20 May 2003 20:00	Russia	0 - 15 (0-5, 0-5, 0-5)	Finland	Wünnewil


21 May 2003 17:00	Finland	9 - 2 (3-1, 3-1, 3-0)	Czech Republic	Gümlingen


21 May 2003 20:00	Switzerland	8 - 1 (2-0, 2-1, 4-0)	Russia	Gümlingen

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Norway	3	3	0	18	4	+14	6
Sweden	3	2	1	29	6	+23	4
Latvia	3	1	2	8	24	−16	2
Germany	3	0	3	8	29	−21	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}


19 May 2003 17:00	Latvia	5 - 4 (1-3, 2-0, 2-1)	Germany	Gümlingen


19 May 2003 20:00	Sweden	1 - 2 (0-0, 1-0, 0-2)	Norway	Gümlingen


20 May 2003 14:00	Norway	10 - 1 (2-1, 3-0, 5-0)	Germany	Gümlingen


20 May 2003 17:00	Sweden	14 - 1 (4-0, 6-0, 4-1)	Latvia	Wünnewil


21 May 2003 14:00	Norway	6 - 2 (2-1, 3-0, 1-1)	Latvia	Gümlingen


21 May 2003 20:00	Germany	3 - 14 (0-5, 2-5, 1-4)	Sweden	Wünnewil

Final stage

Semifinals			Finals

A1	Finland	4

B2	Sweden	5
			B2	Sweden	8

			A2	Switzerland	1
B1	Norway	3

A2	Switzerland	7	Third place


			A1	Finland	4

			B2	Norway	2


23 May 2003 17:00	Finland	4 - 5 (3-0, 1-2, 0-3)	Sweden	Wankdorfhalle, Bern


23 May 2003 20:00	Norway	3 - 7 (0-1, 1-4, 2-2)	Switzerland	Wankdorfhalle, Bern


24 May 2003 11:00	Latvia	2 - 9 (0-3, 1-2, 1-4)	Russia	Wankdorfhalle, Bern


24 May 2003 14:00	Czech Republic	4 - 0 (2-0, 0-0, 2-0)	Germany	Wankdorfhalle, Bern


24 May 2003 17:00	Finland	4 - 2 (2-0, 2-0, 0-2)	Norway	Wankdorfhalle, Bern


24 May 2003 20:00	Sweden	8 - 1 (1-5, 0-2, 0-1)	Switzerland	Wankdorfhalle, Bern

Statistics

Top scorers

	Player	G	A	P
1	Anne Suomalainen (FIN) Johanna Ekeroth (SWE)	8	1	9
3	Jonna Kettunen (FIN)	8	0	8
4	Lidiia Varshavskaia (RUS)	5	2	7
5	Hermine Dahlerus (SWE)	4	3	7
6	Petra Mäntynen (FIN)	0	7	7
7	Martina Metzäner (SUI)	4	2	6
8	Suvi Saukko (FIN) Baiba Jurusa (LAT) Satu Schilcher (FIN)	3	3	6

Division B

The second division consists of all the teams from the same division in the previous tournament minus Russia who were promoted and Great Britain who didn't attend to the tournament. Austria, who were relegated from first division in the previous tournament and the three new teams: Italy, Malaysia and USA also played in the second division. Japan ended up winning the B-final versus Poland and became promoted to the first division for the next tournament.

The two best placed teams in each group advances to play B-semifinals while the lower placed teams plays placement matches versus the corresponding team from the other group.

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	4	4	0	27	11	+16	8
Poland	4	3	1	24	15	+9	6
United States	4	2	2	21	19	+2	4
Austria	4	1	3	16	16	0	2
Malaysia	4	0	4	8	35	−27	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}


18 May 2003 10:00	Austria	3 - 4 (1-1, 1-2, 1-1)	Poland	Gümlingen


18 May 2003 18:00	Malaysia	1 - 8 (0-2, 0-2, 1-4)	Austria	Gümlingen


18 May 2003 10:00	Japan	8 - 4 (1-4, 5-0, 2-0)	United States	Wünnewil


19 May 2003 11:00	United States	7 - 4 (0-1, 5-3, 2-0)	Austria	Wünnewil


19 May 2003 11:00	Poland	5 - 6 (0-2, 2-1, 3-3)	Japan	Gümlingen


19 May 2003 20:00	Poland	9 - 5 (3-1, 4-3, 2-1)	Malaysia	Wünnewil


20 May 2003 11:00	Austria	1 - 4 (0-1, 1-2, 0-1)	Japan	Wünnewil


20 May 2003 17:00	Malaysia	1 - 9 (0-5, 0-1, 1-3)	United States	Wünnewil


20 May 2003 11:00	United States	1 - 6 (1-1, 0-2, 0-3)	Poland	Gümlingen


20 May 2003 17:00	Japan	9 - 1 (2-0, 3-1, 4-0)	Malaysia	Wünnewil

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Denmark	4	4	0	0	27	10	+17	8
Italy	4	2	0	2	12	12	0	4
Singapore	4	1	1	2	23	23	0	3
Australia	4	1	1	2	16	21	−5	3
Hungary	4	1	0	3	9	21	−12	2

Source:^{[citation needed]}


18 May 2003 10:00	Denmark	8 - 4 (4-1, 2-1, 2-2)	Singapore	Wünnewil


18 May 2003 13:00	Australia	2 - 3 (1-2, 0-1, 1-0)	Hungary	Wünnewil


18 May 2003 21:00	Singapore	8 - 8 (a.e.t) (1-3, 4-4, 3-1, 0-0)	Australia	Wünnewil


18 May 2003 21:00	Italy	2 - 4 (1-1, 0-1, 1-2)	Denmark	Gümlingen


19 May 2003 14:00	Hungary	2 - 6 (1-1, 1-3, 0-2)	Denmark	Wünnewil


19 May 2003 17:00	Singapore	3 - 4 (2-3, 1-0, 0-1)	Italy	Wünnewil


20 May 2003 11:00	Denmark	9 - 2 (3-0, 3-0, 3-2)	Australia	Gümlingen


20 May 2003 14:00	Italy	5 - 1 (1-0, 3-0, 1-1)	Hungary	Wünnewil


21 May 2003 11:00	Hungary	3 - 8 (0-2, 1-4, 2-2)	Singapore	Wünnewil


21 May 2003 14:00	Australia	4 - 1 (0-0, 2-0, 2-1)	Italy	Wünnewil

Final stage

Semifinals			Finals

C1	Japan	5

D2	Italy	4
			C1	Japan	7

			C2	Poland	6
D1	Denmark	3(0)

C2	Poland	3(1)	Third place


			D2	Italy	2

			D1	Denmark	8

B-Semifinals


22 May 2003 18:00	Japan	5 - 4 (0-1, 3-1, 2-2)	Italy	Gümlingen


22 May 2003 21:00	Denmark	3 - 3 (a.e.t) (1-1, 2-0, 0-2, 0-0) Pen: 0-1	Poland	Gümlingen

17th place match


22 May 2003 09:00	Hungary	4 - 2 (1-0, 1-1, 2-1)	Malaysia	Gümlingen

15th place match


22 May 2003 12:00	Austria	7 - 3 (2-1, 2-2, 3-0)	Australia	Gümlingen

13th place match


22 May 2003 15:00	Singapore	5 - 3 (1-1, 2-0, 2-2)	United States	Gümlingen

11th place match


23 May 2003 21:00	Italy	2 - 8 (0-3, 1-1, 1-4)	Denmark	Gümlingen

9th place match


23 May 2003 14:00	Japan	7 - 6 (a.e.t) (2-2, 2-3, 2-1, 1-0)	Poland	Gümlingen

Top scorers

	Player	G	A	P
1	Miho Koike (JPN)	11	5	16
2	Sachi Yokoe (JPN)	8	7	15
3	Chikae Ogawa (JPN)	6	8	14
4	Monika Waksmundzka (POL)	10	3	13
5	Ayako Takahashi (JPN)	10	2	12
6	Carmen Wastl (AUT) Jill Quek (SIN)	7	5	12
8	Karina Madsen (DEN)	10	1	11
9	Annukka Muuri (USA)	7	4	11
10	Johanna Breiding (USA)	6	4	10

Final standings

Division A

	Sweden
	Switzerland
	Finland
4	Norway
5	Russia
6	Latvia
7	Czech Republic
8	Germany

*Germany relegated to division B for 2005

Division B

1	Japan
2	Poland
3	Denmark
4	Italy
5	Singapore
6	United States
7	Austria
8	Australia
9	Hungary
10	Malaysia

*Japan promoted to division A for 2005

All-star team

Goalkeeper: Kari Hånsnar Rinne (NOR)
Defender: Simone Berner (SUI)
Defender: Jenny Magnusson (SWE)
Centre: Marisa Mazzarelli (SUI)
Forward: Hermine Dahlerus (SWE)
Forward: Suvi Saukko (FIN)

MVP: Anne Suomalainen (FIN)
MVP: Johanna Ekeroth (SWE)

References

^ "Svenskt guld i damernas innebandy-VM". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 24 May 2003. Retrieved 4 February 2017.

External links

IFF Tournament Site

World Floorball Championship

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