Host country Latvia Teams 16 Runner-up Sweden | Dates 20–27 May Champions Finland (2nd title) Third place Norway | |
The 2001 Women's World Floorball Championships was the third world championship in women's floorball. The games were played in Riga, Latvia 20–27 May 2001. Finland ended up as champions, thus they became the first team to win their second title. In the final-game Finland defeated Sweden, 2-0.
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Great Britain, Hungary & Poland made their first appearances in the women's floorball world championships.
Division A
The 8 teams of the first division consists of the 7 best placed teams from the highest division the previous tournament plus Austria, the winner of division B the previous tournament. As with both the earlier world championships, the top four positions were taken by Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland with Finland as the champions. Austria lost the 7th place match versus Germany and was then relegated back to division B for the next tournament.
Results
The two best placed teams in each group advances to the semifinals. The lower placed teams face up against the corresponding team from the other group for placement matches.
Division B
The second division consisted of the 4 bottom placed teams from the last tournament plus three new teams Great Britain, Hungary, Poland and Russia who were relegated from the top division following their withdrawal from the previous tournament. Russia did however get promoted back to the top division for the next tournament after a clean sweep, beating Denmark in the division final with 14-1 and having a total goal difference by +60.
Results
The two best placed teams from each group advances to B-semifinals. The rest of the teams advances to play the corresponding team from the other group i placement matches.
All-star team
The pick of Latvian Rudite Danovska as the best goalkeeper in the tournament made her the first player outside of Sweden, Findland, Norway and Switzerland to be included in a world championship all-star team. Birgitte Lersbryggen was included in the all-star team for her second back-to-back tournament.
Goalkeeper: Rudite Danovska (LAT)
Defender: Paula Jouhten (FIN)
Defender: Jenny Wiklund (SWE)
Centre: Birgitte Lersbryggen (NOR)
Forward: Hermine Dahlerus (SWE)
Forward: Anna Gustafsson (SWE)
MVP: Birgitte Lersbryggen (NOR)