IIHF European Women Championships

The IIHF European Women Championships is a former international women's ice hockey tournament between ice hockey playing nations in Europe. Finland's national women's team won the championship title four times and Sweden women's national ice hockey team won it once in 1996, the final year the competition took place.

This article is about the European ice hockey national championships for women. For the club championship, see IIHF European Women's Champions Cup.
IIHF European Women Championships
Finland national women's ice hockey team at the Ravensburg Women's Air Canada Cup 2008
StatusNo longer active
GenreSports event
Date(s)January–March
FrequencyBiannual
Location(s)Various
Inaugurated1989 (1989)
Most recent1996 (1996)
Organized byIIHF

The European competition was organized by International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and was played from 1989 to 1996. An international women's ice hockey competition sanctioned by the IIHF began in 1990. The European tournament ceased in 1997 because there would be either an IIHF World Women's Championships or an Olympic tournament every year.

History

The late 1980s marks the modern era of organized women's hockey when the first international invitational tournaments were beginning to become organized. The first IIHF European Women’s Championship, was played in Düsseldorf and Ratingen, Germany, in 1989. Team Finland was the first to win the championship.[1]

Winners
Year Gold Silver Bronze Country host
1989  Finland  Sweden  West Germany  West Germany
1991  Finland  Sweden  Denmark  Czechoslovakia
1993  Finland  Sweden  Norway  Denmark
1995  Finland  Sweden   Switzerland  Latvia
1996  Sweden  Russia  Finland  Russia

See also

References
  1. "IIHF - Women's Hockey". IIHF.com. International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
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