1998 Winter Olympics - Women's tournament

The 1998 Olympic women's ice hockey tournament was the first year that featured women in ice hockey competition. It was greatly anticipated that the women's gold medal match would feature Canada versus the United States. Canada was favored to come out on top as they had won all the competitions in previous years in women's hockey, with the United States perpetually finishing second, while no other national teams could match their level of play. However, the United States beat Canada in the final and became the first country to win gold in women's ice hockey at the Olympics.

There were no qualification tournaments, the host Japan played alongside the top five nations at the previous season's world championships.

First round

The First 4 teams (shaded green) advanced to medal round games.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
United States	5	5	0	0	33	7	10
Canada	5	4	1	0	28	12	8
Finland	5	3	2	0	27	10	6
China	5	2	3	0	10	15	4
Sweden	5	1	4	0	10	21	2
Japan	5	0	5	0	2	45	0

• Sweden 0 - Finland 6
• Canada 13 - Japan 0
• United States 5 - China 0
• Finland 11 - Japan 1
• United States 7 - Sweden 1
• Canada 2 - China 0
• Canada 5 - Sweden 3
• Japan 1 - China 6
• United States 4 - Finland 2
• China 3 - Sweden 1
• United States 10 - Japan 0
• Finland 2 - Canada 4
• Japan 0 - Sweden 5
• Finland 6 - China 1
• Canada 4 - United States 7

Final round

3rd place game

• Finland 4 - China 1

Gold medal game

• United States 3 - Canada 1

Final rankings

Rk.	Team	Notes
	United States	Qualified for the 1999 World Championships
	Canada	Qualified for the 1999 World Championships
	Finland	Qualified for the 1999 World Championships
4.	China	Qualified for the 1999 World Championships
5.	Sweden	Qualified for the 1999 World Championships
6.	Japan	Qualified for the 1999 World Championship Pool B

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