Ice hockey
Women's World Championship

The 1987 World Women's Hockey Tournament in Toronto was the first international competition in women's hockey, although it was not sanctioned by the IIHF. Two years later, the 1989 IIHF European Women Championships in West Germany was the first IIHF-sanctioned event and the first European Championship held in women's hockey, preceding the IIHF-sanctioned Women's World Championship. The first world ice hockey championship for women was the 1990 IIHF World Women's Championship in Ottawa. Today, the tournament is held annually, except that the top flight does not play in Olympic years.
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