2013 IIHF Women's World Championship
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country |
 Canada
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| Dates | 2–9 April 2013 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Venue(s) | 2 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
Champions 
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 United States (5th title)
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Runner-up 
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Canada
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Third place 
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 Russia
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| Fourth place |
 Finland
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 21 |
| Goals scored | 109 (5.19 per match) |
| Attendance | 97,156 (4,626 per match) |
| Scoring leader(s) |
Marie-Philip Poulin (12 points) |
| MVP |
Marie-Philip Poulin
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The 2013 IIHF World Women's Championships was the 15th world championship sanctioned by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and was the last world championship before the 2014 Winter Olympics. Canada faced the United States for the gold medal for the 15th consecutive tournament; The Americans won their fifth world title with a 3–2 win, while Russia defeated Finland, 2–0, to win its second bronze medal in tournament history.
The tournament was held at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the site of the first Women's World Championship in 1990. Organizers set a tournament record of over 150,000 tickets sold, and a preliminary round contest between Canada and Finland set an all-time attendance mark for a women's hockey game of 18,013. Canada's Marie-Philip Poulin was named top forward and most valuable player after leading the tournament with 12 points. Finland's Jenni Hiirikoski was named top defenceman and Russia's Nadezhda Alexandrova was named top goaltender.
The Top Division of the world championship was contested between eight teams from April 2 to April 9, 2013 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was the second time the tournament was held in Canada's capital city as Ottawa hosted the inaugural Women's World Championship in 1990. The women's game had undergone a considerable period of growth in the intervening 23 years; the 1990 tournament was primarily played in small community arenas, but the majority of the 2013 event was held in the 20,000 seat Scotiabank Place arena.
The host city set a tournament record by selling over 150,000 tickets for the tournament, but gate attendance fell short of the record of 119,231 set in 2007. Such discrepancies are not ususual at IIHF events, where games are often sold in packages in order to boost attendance figures of less attractive fixtures. However, both actual attendance and ticket sales were below the ambitious pre-tournament objective of 200,000 spectators relayed to the media by the organizers.
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