In the early morning of April 15, Beijing time, the 2022 ITAF Women's Ice Hockey World Championships Group B match held in Katowice, Poland, ended, and the Chinese team won five consecutive victories and won the championship, returning to Group A after 11 years. Miller was named the best striker of the tournament.
A total of six teams participated in the World Championships, namely Italy, ranked 16th in the world, China ranked 17th in the world, South Korea at 18th in the world, Poland at 20th in the world, Kazakhstan at 21st in the world and Slovenia at 22nd in the world.
Although not the highest-ranked team, the Chinese team is still a popular candidate to win the championship. After all, just two months after the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, although it was shortlisted as the host, it achieved respectable results in fierce competition, and finally ranked ninth out of 10 teams.
Unsurprisingly, in the end, the Chinese team won five consecutive victories in this World Championship and successfully promoted to The A Group A of the World Championships, with a goal difference of 38 to 9. In terms of player scoring list, the Chinese team won the top 5, Linny 7 goals, 8 assists and 15 points, Lin Qiqi 7 goals, 8 assists and 15 points, Miller 6 goals, 6 assists and 12 points, Liu Zhixin 2 goals, 9 assists and 11 points, Zhang Xifang 5 goals, 3 assists and 8 points.
There are 17 players in this Chinese team, 16 of whom are from Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Ice Hockey Club. "Linney joined a year before I joined Kunlun Hongxing, then Miller and I joined in 2018, we have been constantly adjusting between the various groups on the offensive end for the past four years, but this season, our cooperation has further strengthened. We all know each other's playing styles, so we work together very well. The attacking group of three of them made up the top three in the tournament scoring list.
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is the first Olympic trip of Chinese women's ice hockey since the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where they played four games against the Czech Republic, Denmark, Japan and Sweden in Group B, scoring five points and narrowly missing the quarterfinals.
"At my first Winter Olympics, I just wanted to participate with an open mind and accept everything," Lin said. "Even coming here, it's my first time at the World Championships. The feeling is not very real and is difficult to describe in words. ”
Commenting on the difference between the two events, she said: "Obviously, the Winter Olympics are fierce competition, faster, but we treat the World Championships with the same mentality, we are always very focused. ”
China Women's Ice Hockey has long been in the top group of the Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, and twice finished fourth in the 1900s, but was relegated from the top group in 2009 and then relegated from The World Championships Group A in 2011. Since then, the Chinese team has been trying to upgrade, and finally succeeded in 2022.
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