The 2001 IIHF World Women's Championships was held April 2 – April 8, 2001 in six cities in the state of Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. Team Canada won their seventh consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the United States in a repeat of the previous six finals.

Teams

With the promotion and relegation format now in use, the top seven nations were joined by Kazakhstan, the winner of Group B in 2000.

World Championship Group A

The eight participating teams were divided up into two seeded groups as below. The teams played each other once in a single round robin format. The top two teams from the group proceeded to the Final Round, while the remaining teams played in the Consolation Round.

First round

	Teams proceed to Final round
	Teams sent to Consolation round

Standings

28

5

Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1.		3	3	0	0	29	1
6
2.		3	2	0	1	12	7
4
3.		3	1	0	2	3	17
2
4.		3	0	0	3	3	22
0

Results

All times local

Standings

35

Rk.	Team	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
1.		3	3	0	0	35	0
6
2.		3	2	0	1	12	17
4
3.		3	0	1	2	6	20
1
4.		3	0	1	2	2	18
1

Results

All times local

Consolation Round 5-8 Place

Consolation Round 7-8 Place

Consolation Round 5-6 Place

Final round

Semifinals

Match for third place

Final

Scoring leaders

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-
Cammi Granato Cammi Granato Catherine Michelle "Cammi" Granato is a retired American female ice hockey player and one of the first women to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November 2010....	5	7	6	13	0	16
Krissy Wendell Krissy Wendell Krissy Wendell is an American women's ice hockey player. During the 2004-05 season, Krissy Wendell set an NCAA record for most shorthanded goals in one season with 7. After graduating from Minnesota, she had the career record for most shorthanded goals in a career with 16...	5	3	9	12	4	10
Nancy Drolet Nancy Drolet Nancy Drolet is a Canadian ice hockey player. She is the daughter of Mr. Denis Drolet and Mrs. Viviane Dubé...	5	4	7	11	4	7
Jennifer Botterill Jennifer Botterill Jennifer Botterill, OM is a retired women's hockey player who played for the Canadian national women's hockey team, Mississauga Chiefs and the Toronto Aeros. Her final game was the 2011 Clarkson Cup final, a 5-0 loss to the Montreal Stars...	5	8	2	10	4	11
Ekaterina Pashkevich	5	6	4	10	2	5
Jenny Schmidgall	5	3	7	10	4	15
Kelly Bechard Kelly Bechard Kelly Bechard is a women's ice hockey player. Bechard competed for Canada at the World Championships in 2000 and 2001. In 2002, she competed for Canada at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City...	5	1	9	10	8	10
Tammy Shewchuk	5	5	4	9	2	11
Danielle Goyette Danielle Goyette Danielle Goyette is a retired women's ice hockey player, and has been on the Canadian national team.-Hockey Canada:...	5	4	5	9	0	8
Katie King	5	7	1	8	0	10

Goaltending leaders

Player	Mins	GA	SOG	GAA	SV%
Sara Decosta Sara Decosta Sara DeCosta is an American ice hockey player from Warwick, Rhode Island, an alumna of Toll Gate High School. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics....	120	1	40	0.50	.975
Sami Jo Small Sami Jo Small Sami Jo Small is a women's ice hockey player.-Hockey Canada:Small is a three time Olympian, acting as a third goaltender on the Canadian women's hockey team at Turin and Nagano.-CWHL:...	120	1	21	0.50	.952
Kim St-Pierre Kim St-Pierre Kim St-Pierre is a women's ice hockey player.-McGill:In 1998-99, she was the top rookie for the McGill Martlets women's ice hockey team...	180	2	64	0.67	.969
Sarah Tueting Sarah Tueting Sarah Tueting is an American ice hockey player. She played goalie for the United States women's national ice hockey team. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She grew up in Winnetka, Illinois a Northern suburb of Chicago. She attended...	178	3	45	1.01	.933
Irina Gachennikova	286	13	150	2.73	.913
Kim Martin Kim Martin Kim Kristine Martin is a goaltender for the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She plays her club hockey with AIK's women's team and has also played with Hammarby IF's junior men's team...	85	2	31	2.84	.871
Stephanie Wartosch-Kurten	266	16	155	3.60	.897
Hong Guo	240	15	130	3.75	.885
Annica Ahlen Annica Ahlen Annica Ahlen is a retired Swedish ice hockey goaltender. Ahlen first represented Sweden internationally at the 1990 IIHF Women's World Championship. In total, she has played in 16 world championships games, with a record of 7 wins, 8 losses and 1 tie...	210	18	114	5.12	.842
Minna Halonen	90	8	32	5.35	.750

Final standings

Rk.	Team	Notes
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.		Relegated to the 2003 World Championships Division I

World Championship Group B

World Championship Group B was played again with an eight team tournament which was hosted by Briancon

Briançon

Briançon a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department....

 in France

France

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. won the tournament with a 2-1 victory over too see them bounce straight back to the main World Championship in 2003.

Directorate Awards

• Goalie: Kim St. Pierre, (Canada)
• Defender: Karyn Bye
  Karyn Bye
  Karyn L. Bye is an ice hockey player. She was the alternate captain of the 1998 Winter Olympics gold-medal winning United States Women's Hockey Team. She has been a member of the US National Team since 1992...
  
  , (United States)
• Forward: Jennifer Botterill
  Jennifer Botterill
  Jennifer Botterill, OM is a retired women's hockey player who played for the Canadian national women's hockey team, Mississauga Chiefs and the Toronto Aeros. Her final game was the 2011 Clarkson Cup final, a 5-0 loss to the Montreal Stars...
  
  , (Canada)
• Most Valuable Player: Jennifer Botterill, Canada