Kazakhstan women's national ice hockey team

The Kazakhstan women's national ice hockey team represents Kazakhstan at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World Women's Championships. The women's national team is controlled by Kazakhstan Ice Hockey Federation. Kazakhstan has 127 female players in 2011.[2]

Kazakhstan
AssociationKazakhstan Ice Hockey Federation
Head coachAlexander Maltsev
AssistantsNatalya Skobelkina
Alexander Tebenkov
CaptainOlga Konysheva
Most gamesViktoriya Sazonova (81)
Most pointsNatalya Yakovchuk (42)
Team colors     
IIHF codeKAZ
Ranking
Current IIHF21 2 (24 April 2020)[1]
Highest IIHF7 (2011)
Lowest IIHF19 (2018)
First international
Latvia  4–0  Kazakhstan
(Riga, Latvia; 21 October 1995)
Biggest win
Kazakhstan  19–0  South Korea
(Misawa, Japan; 3 February 2003)
Kazakhstan  19–0  Hong Kong
(Sapporo, Japan; 23 February 2017)
Biggest defeat
World Championships
Appearances17 (first in 2000)
Best result6th (2009)
Asian Winter Games
Appearances10 (first in 1996)
Best result Gold (2003, 2007, 2011)
Olympics
Appearances1 (first in 2002)
International record (W–L–T)
85–76–12

History

The Kazakhstani team's current world ranking is 7th, moving up one spot from last year. By beating the Russian national women's ice hockey team at the 2005 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships in the 7th place game, it was their highest ever position at a World or Olympic championship.

Tournament record

Olympic Games

  • 2002 – Finished in 8th place

World Championship

  • 1999 – Finished in 17th/18th place (1st in Pool B qualifying group, promoted to Pool B)
  • 2000 – Finished in 9th place (1st in Pool B, promoted to Top Division)
  • 2001 – Finished in 8th place (relegated to Division I)
  • 2003 – Finished in 10th place (2nd in Division I)
  • 2004 – Finished in 10th place (1st in Division I, promoted to Top Division)
  • 2005 – Finished in 7th place
  • 2007 – Finished in 9th place[3]
  • 2008 – Finished in 10th place (1st in Division I, promoted to Top Division)
  • 2009 – Finished in 6th place
  • 2011 – Finished in 8th place (relegated to Division I)
  • 2012 – Finished in 14th place (6th in Division IA, relegated to Division IB)
  • 2013 – Finished in 19th place (5th in Division IB)
  • 2014 – Finished in 20th place (6th in Division IB, relegated to Division IIA)
  • 2015 – Finished in 21st place (1st in Division IIA, promoted to Division IB)
  • 2016 – Finished in 17th place (3rd in Division IB)
  • 2017 – Finished in 16th place (2nd in Division IB)
  • 2018 – Finished in 19th place (4th in Division IB)
  • 2019 – Finished in 21st place (5th in Division IB)
  • 2020 – Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4]
  • 2021 – Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[5]

Asian Winter Games

Kazakhstan has participated in every women's ice hockey tournament contested at the Asian Winter games. The squad has claimed a medal in every tournament including three golds.

  • 1996 – 3rd
  • 1999 – 3rd
  • 2003 – 1st
  • 2007 – 1st
  • 2011 – 1st
  • 2017 – 3rd

European Championship

  • 1996 – Finished in 13th place (7th in Pool B)

National U-18 team

The national under-18 team debuted in 2007 during qualification for the first ever IIHF Under 18 women's world championships (contested in 2008).

  • 2010 – Finished in 6th place (in Division I)

2015 roster

[6]

Goaltenders
Number Player Club
1Aizhan RaushanovaAisulu Almaty
20Tatyana MozhayevaAisulu Almaty
Defensemen
Number Player Club
2Daria MoldabaiAisulu Almaty
6Azhar KhamimuldinovaTomiris Almaty
12Viktoria MussatayevaAisulu Almaty
14Yekaterina SkobelkinaAisulu Almaty
15Galia Nurgalieva, AAisulu Almaty
16Olga KonyshevaAisulu Almaty
18Alexandra FeklistovaAisulu Almaty
21Assem TuleubayevaAisulu Almaty
23Viktoria SazonovaAisulu Almaty
Forwards
Number Player Club
3Madina TursynovaAisulu Almaty
4Pernesh AshimovaAisulu Almaty
5Malika AldabergenovaSSHIOSD Almaty
8Alyona Fux, AAisulu Almaty
9Nadezhda FilimonovaAisulu Almaty
10Arai ShegebayevaAisulu Almaty
11Zarina Tukhtieva, CAisulu Almaty
12Meruyert RyspekAisulu Almaty
17Xenia BushuyevaAisulu Almaty
19Karina FelzinkAisulu Almaty
24Tatyana KorolevaAisulu Almaty

References

  1. "IIHF Women's World Ranking". IIHF. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  2. Profile
  3. Demoted to "Division I: Main championships cancelled due to SARS outbreak. Did not affect Division I.
  4. "IIHF cancels March tournaments". iihf.com. 2 March 2020.
  5. "IIHF – IIHF Council announces more cancellations". International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  6. 2015 roster
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