Anne Tuomanen (born 15 April 1987) is a Finnish retired ice hockey winger and former member of the Finnish national team, who played in the

Naisten Liiga The Kansallinen Liiga ('National League') is the premier division of women's football in Finland. It was previously called the Jalkapallon naisten SM-sarja ('Women's Football Finnish Championship Series') during 1974 to 2006 and the Naisten Lii ...

(NSML) for fifteen seasons. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning Finnish team at the

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and the silver medal-winning team at the

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In total, Tuomanen represented Finland in 76 international matches, including at the

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and at the

2011 MLP Nations Cup The 2011 MLP Nations Cup was a women's ice hockey tournament that featured five countries' national teams in addition to Canada, who played with their national under-22 team. Canada has defended the title which they won in 2010. All games were con ...

Playing career

Tuomanen played in the Naisten SM-sarja (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017) with the Jyväskylän Hockey Cats (JyHC; renamed Cats Jyväskylä in 2004) during 2002 to 2007, HPK during 2009 to 2011 and 2015–16, and the Tampereen Ilves during 2011 to 2015 and from 2016 until her retirement in 2019. Over the course of her career, she played more than 350 Naisten Liiga regular season games and skated in 75 playoff games. She won the Finnish Championship in 2011 with HPK, the inaugural recipients of the Aurora Borealis Cup, won three Finnish Championship silver and two Finnish Championship bronze medals, and was named a 2010–11 Naisten SM-sarja All-Star. She served as

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of Ilves Tampere during the 2016–17 Naisten SM-sarja season and the 2018–19 Naisten Liiga season.

References

Content in this article is translated from the existing Finnish Wikipedia article at :fi:Anne Tuomanen; see its history for attribution.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuomanen, Anne 1987 births Living people Cats Jyväskylä players Finnish women's ice hockey forwards HPK Kiekkonaiset players Ice hockey people from Jyväskylä Ilves Naiset players Jyväskylän Hockey Cats players Medalists at the 2011 Winter Universiade Naisten Liiga All-Stars Swiss Women's League players Winter World University Games medalists in ice hockey FISU World University Games silver medalists for Finland