Annina Rajahuhta (born 8 March 1989) is a Finnish retired

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, currently serving as co-head coach of the

Kiekko-Espoo Kiekko-Espoo is a Finnish ice hockey club founded in 1984. Kiekko-Espoo men's team plays in the Mestis and the women's team plays in the Naisten Liiga. Kiekko-Espoo's junior teams play at national league levels in U16, U18 and U20 juniors. The ...

girl's under-16 and under-18 teams. She played ten seasons with the Finnish national team, winning bronze medals at the

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and

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

prior to retiring from national competition in 2020.

Playing career

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, she played for

HPK Kiekkonaiset HPK Kiekkonaiset are an ice hockey team in the Naisten Liiga (NSML), the premier women's ice hockey league in Finland. They are the representative women’s team of Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho (HPK), a multi-sport club in Hämeenlinna, Kanta-Häme, ...

in the Naisten SM-sarja (Finnish national women's league, renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017). For the

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, Rajahuhta joined the

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. In the bronze medal game at the

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, Annina Rajahuhta scored a goal as Finland lost to Switzerland beat by a 6–2 tally.

CWHL

On 18 November 2011, Rajahuhta was one of several

players that competed in the first ever Hockey Helps the Homeless Women's Tournament. Said tournament was held at the Magna Centre in Newmarket, Ontario.

Other

Rajahuhta scored the only goal for Team World in a 3–1 loss at the

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Career stats

Team Finland

References

External links

* * * * 1989 births Living people Burlington Barracudas players Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade Espoo Blues Naiset players Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Canada Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in China Finnish women's ice hockey forwards HPK Kiekkonaiset players Ice hockey commentators Ice hockey people from Helsinki Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ilves Naiset players Kiekko-Espoo Naiset players Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Olympic ice hockey players for Finland Olympic medalists in ice hockey Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays players Universiade medalists in ice hockey Universiade silver medalists for Finland {{Finland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub