2003 Women's World Floorball Championships

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.

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)

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

Source:

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

Source:

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

Source:

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

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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

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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

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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:

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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

External links

• IFF Tournament Site