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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country |  Canada |
| Dates | 19–25 March 1990 |
| Opened by | Ray Hnatyshyn |
| Teams | 8 |
| Final positions | |
Champions  | Canada (1st title) |
Runner-up  |  United States |
Third place  |  Finland |
| Fourth place |  Sweden |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Games played | 20 |
| Goals scored | 237 (11.85 per game) |
| Scoring leader(s) | Cindy Curley (23 points) |
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.[1] 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.[2] Full contact bodychecking was allowed with certain restrictions near the boards. The intermissions between periods were twenty minutes instead of fifteen.[3] This has since[when?] 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).[4]
The tournament drew strong international attention. The gold medal game packed 9,000 people into the arena and drew over a million viewers on television.[citation needed] 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[5] 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.[5]
- ^ "Highlights, Canada vs USA, 1990 IIHF Women's World Championship final". Youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11.
- ^ Kelly, p. 89.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
WHockey net general infowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 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
- ^ a b Kelly p. 88.