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ZhHL The Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL; russian: Женская хоккейная лига, translit=Zhenskaya khokkeynaya liga, translation=Women's Hockey League), officially called the Women's Hockey League (WHL), is a professional ice hockey leagu ...

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Tornado Dmitrov Hockey Club Tornado Moscow Region (), often shortened to HC Tornado, Tornado Moscow Region or Tornado Dmitrov, is an ice hockey club in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL). The team is based in Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia, and they play at t ...

, sex = f , ntl_team = RUS , career_start = 2013 , career_end = , medaltemplates = Alevtina Pavlovna Polunina, (russian: Алевтина Павловна Полунина (Штарёва); born 9 February 1997) is a Russian

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player and member of the Russian national team. She most recently played with

of the

Zhenskaya Hockey League The Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL; russian: Женская хоккейная лига, translit=Zhenskaya khokkeynaya liga, translation=Women's Hockey League), officially called the Women's Hockey League (WHL), is a professional ice hockey leagu ...

(ZhHL) in the 2019–20 season. Polunina represented Russia at the

IIHF Women's World Championships The IIHF World Women's Championship (WW or WWC), officially the IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship, is the premier international tournament in women's ice hockey. It is governed by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The offi ...

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, and

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, winning a bronze medal at the 2016 tournament, and at the Winter Universiades in

and

, winning gold medals at both tournaments. She participated in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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with the Olympic Athletes from Russia team. As a member of the Russian national under-18 team, she participated in three

IIHF Women's U18 World Championships The IIHF Women's World U18 Championship, officially the IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship, is an annual ice hockey tournament for national women's under-18 (U18) ice hockey teams, administrated by the International Ice Hockey Feder ...

during

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, winning a bronze medal at the 2015 tournament. She made her debut in the Russian Championship league at age 16 with HC Tornado and has remained with the team throughout the entirety of her club career, from the 2013–14 RWHL season onward. With Tornado, Polunina is a three-time Russian Champion, three-time ZhHL All-Star, and was the league’s top goal scorer in the 2015–16 and 2017–18 seasons, scoring 29 goals and 23 goals in 24 games respectively. The birth of her first child prompted her to sit out the

2020–21 ZhHL season The 2020–21 ZhHL season was the sixth season of the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) since the league was established in 2015. It was the 26th season in which the women's ice hockey Russian Championship was contested. League business Team c ...

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* * 1997 births Living people Russian women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey people from Moscow HC Tornado players Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Russia FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia Universiade medalists in ice hockey Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade {{Russia-icehockey-player-stub