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1990 IIHF Women's World Championship

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Field	Value
tourney_name	IIHF Women's World Championship
year	1990
image	1990 IIHF Women's World Championship.png
size	120px
country	Canada
dates	19–25 March 1990
opened	Ray Hnatyshyn
num_teams	8
cities	1
type	ihw
winners	Canada
count	1
second	USA
third	FIN
fourth	SWE
games	20
goals	237
scoring_leader	USA Cindy Curley (23 points)
prevseason	[1987 (Unofficial)](1987-world-women-s-hockey-tournament)
nextseason	[1992](1992-iihf-women-s-world-championship)

The 1990 IIHF Women's World Championships was an international women's ice hockey competition held at Civic Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (now renamed TD Place Arena) from March 19 to 25, in 1990. This was the first IIHF-sanctioned international tournament in women's ice hockey and is the only major international tournament in women's ice hockey to allow bodychecking. Full contact bodychecking was allowed with certain restrictions near the boards. The intermissions between periods were twenty minutes instead of fifteen. This has since been changed to the usual fifteen minutes.

The Canadian team won the gold medal, the United States won silver, and Finland won bronze. Team Finland had won the first IIHF European Women’s Championship the previous year (1989), in Düsseldorf and Ratingen, Germany.

Canada's Fran Rider helped to organize the championships without the financial support from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (now known as Hockey Canada).

The tournament drew strong international attention. The gold medal game was attended by 8,784 people – at the time the largest ever audience for a women's hockey game – and drew over a million viewers on television. For marketing purposes, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association decided the Canadian national team should wear pink and white uniforms instead of the expected red and white and released a related film called, "Pretty in Pink". While the experiment only lasted for this tournament, Ottawa was taken over by a "pink craze" during the championships. Restaurants had pink-coloured food on special, and pink became a popular colour for flowers and bow ties.

Qualification tournament

The United States, Canadian and Asian representative Japan, qualified automatically. The 1989 European Women's Ice Hockey Championship served as the qualification tournament for this championship. The top five finishers in the top pool qualified. They were Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and West Germany.

U.S. team members ranged in age from 17 to 30 and included high school and college players, a law student and a construction worker.

Venue

The tournament took place in Canada at the Civic Centre in Ottawa, now renamed, TD Place Arena.

Ottawa, Canada	Host Venue	Details	Ottawa Civic Centre
[[File:TD Place Arena - Interior.JPG	200px]]
Renamed: TD Place Arena
Location: CAN Ottawa, Canada
Broke ground: 1966
Opened: December 29, 1967
Renamed: TD Place Arena
Renovated: 1992, 2005, 2012–2014
Expanded: 1992 (seating reduced as part of 2005 renovation)

Final tournament

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Consolation round

5–8 place

7–8 place

5–6 place

Final round

Semifinals

3–4 place

Final

Rankings and statistics

Final rankings

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.

G	A	Pts
Cindy Curley,	11	12
Tina Cardinale,	5	10
Cammi Granato,	9	5
Kim Urech,	8	6
Angela James,	11	2
Heather Ginzel,	7	5
Susana Yuen,	5	7
Kelly O'Leary,	6	5
Shirley Cameron,	5	6
Stacy Wilson,	3	8

Canada's Dawn McGuire was named MVP of the gold medal game.

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played 40% of their team's minutes are included in this list.

Player	TOI	SA	GA	GAA	Sv%	SO
CAN Cathy Phillips	156	32	3	1.15	90.63	1
JPN Tamae Satsu	151	143	17	6.75	88.11	0
USA Kelly Dyer	200	83	12	3.60	85.54	1
FRG Aurelia Vonderstrass	180	65	10	3.33	84.62	0
SUI Tanja Muller	147	97	15	6.12	84.54	0

Bodychecking

1990 women's team jerseys for Team Canada

This is the only major international tournament in women's ice hockey to allow bodychecking. Bodychecking rules allowed for full-contact checking, with certain limitations along the boards.

Before the tournament, bodychecking had been allowed in women's ice hockey in Europe and North America though Canada had begun to gradually eliminate the tactic from their women's ice hockey programs in the mid-1980's, with contact having already been banned at all national women's ice hockey tournaments in Canada in 1983 due to the efforts of Rhonda Leeman Taylor. However, the European teams had asked for bodychecking to be included in the 1990 international tournament.

After this tournament, the International Ice Hockey Federation disallowed bodychecking in women's ice hockey.

Injuries

A number of players suffered head injuries from the beginning of the tournament.

Attendance

Precise attendance figures are not clear. The Globe and Mail in 2013 estimated that the total attendance was 13,000. However, it was reported that the gold medal game alone had a record 8,784 spectators, and that Canada's first game against Sweden had 3,578.

Broadcasts

Television broadcasts of the event was produced by Paul Graham.

Notes

References

Malcolm G. Kelly, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Canadian Sports History and Trivia", Alpha Books, .

References

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Kelly, p. 89.
On the Edge: Women Making Hockey History, p.81, by Elizabeth Etue and Megan K. Williams, Second Story Press, Toronto, Ontario, 1996, {{ISBN. 0-929005-79-1
Reid, Patrick Alexander. (2018). "The First Women’s World Ice Hockey Championship and the Emergence of the Routine of Women’s Elite Hockey".
Zawisza, Mike. (2020-03-19). "This day in hockey history: 1990 IIHF Women’s World Championship".
Kelly p. 88.
Andria Hunter [http://www.whockey.com/int/wwc/ Women's Hockey Net page on the IIHF World Women's Championships] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-09-06 accessed July 16, 2006.)
[http://www.passionhockey.com/hockeyarchives/mondefem1990.htm Championnats du monde feminins 1990] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-09-24 accessed September 2, 2019.)
Fichtenbaum, Paul. (2 April 1990). "No place for pom-poms: the tough U.S. women were second in the first worlds. (Hockey)".
Julia Galt. (28 February 2020). "Newmarket author reveals untold stories of women's hockey history". Newmarket Today.
Joe Lapointe. (17 February 2002). "OLYMPICS: WOMEN'S HOCKEY; Contact Is a Hard-Hitting Question to Consider".
It is currently{{When. (July 2015 an infraction punished with a minor or major and game misconduct [[penalty (ice hockey)). link. (2006-10-17 p. 84 accessed July 16, 2006.)
Paul Fitchenbaum. (2 April 1990). "NO PLACE FOR POM-POMS".
Brady, Rachel. (2013-04-01). "Women’s world hockey championship returns to Ottawa with new identity".
(May 25, 2025). "Paul Graham: IIHF Media Award".
Podnieks, Andrew. (May 25, 2025). "IIHF honours its Contributors".

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