2001 IIHF Women's World Championship

The 2001 IIHF World Women's Championships was held April 2–8, 2001 in six cities in the state of Minnesota. Team Canada won their seventh consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the United States in a repeat of the previous six finals. Russia upset Finland two to one to capture their first medal in women's hockey.

Teams
With the promotion and relegation format now in use, the top seven nations were joined by Kazakhstan, the winner of Group B in 2000.



World Championship Group A
The eight participating teams were divided up into two seeded groups as below. The teams played each other once in a single round robin format. The top two teams from the group proceeded to the Final Round, while the remaining teams played in the Consolation Round.

Results
All times local

Results
All times local

World Championship Division I
World Championship Group B was renamed Division I and was played again with an eight team tournament which was hosted by Briançon in France. won the tournament with a 2-1 victory over to see them bounce straight back to the main World Championship in 2003.