The 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship Division III was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

The tournament was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 4 to 10 December 2019.Division III official websiteDivision III statistics

South Africa won the tournament and were promoted to Division II B.

Participating teams Team QualificationPlaced 6th in Division II B previous year and were relegated.Placed 2nd in Division II B Qualification previous year.Placed 3rd in Division II B Qualification previous year.Placed 4th in Division II B Qualification previous year.Hosts; placed 5th in Division II B Qualification previous year.First time participating in World Championship.

Match officials Four referees and seven linesmen are selected for the tournament.

Referees Linesmen Gabrielle Aston Shauna Neary Rita Rygh Laura White Anastasia Tanasevich Aino Härkönen Lorna Beresford Nina Refset

Yulia Lavelina Ines Confidenti Michelle Müller

Final standings

Match results All times are local (Eastern European Time – UTC+2).

Awards and statistics

Awards AwardAwards Player Best Goalkeeper Emilie Simonsen Best Defenceman Donne van Doesburgh Best Forward Klara Miuller

Scoring leaders List shows the top skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM POS Klara Miuller 5 9 1 10 +4 10 F Chloe Schuurman 5 4 8 10 +7 4 F Lotte De Guchtenaere 5 8 1 9 0 2 F Timea Csiszér 5 4 5 9 +8 4 F Veronika Metanova 5 7 1 8 +2 4 F Dalene Rhode 5 5 3 8 +5 8 F Ana Voicu 5 5 3 8 +6 20 F Femke Bosmans 5 4 4 8 +4 2 F Tina Lisichkova 5 3 4 7 0 12 D Chinouk Van Calster 5 2 5 7 +6 0 D GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position Source: IIHF.com

Goaltending leaders Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.

Player TOI GA GAA SA Sv% SO Emilie Simonsen 300:00 14 2.80 192 92.71 0 Paulina Georgieva 303:22 10 1.98 102 90.20 1 Sumi Chau 213:27 10 2.81 82 87.80 0 Shaylene Swanepoel 266:20 14 3.15 87 83.91 0 Andrea Kurkó 198:19 11 3.33 58 81.03 0 TOI = Time on Ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF.com

References

External links Official website of IIHF