Annina Rajahuhta (born 8 March 1989) is a Finnish retired
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...
forward, 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
2010 and
2018 Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...
prior to retiring from national competition in 2020.
Playing career
In
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
, 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-Häm ...
in the
Naisten SM-sarja (Finnish national women's league, renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017). For the
2011–12 CWHL season The 2011–12 CWHL season was the fifth in league history. Regular season play begun on October 22, 2011, as the defending champion Montreal Stars hosted the Brampton Thunder. The league expanded from five teams to six as Team Alberta (CWHL) joined ...
, Rajahuhta joined the
Burlington Barracudas. In the bronze medal game at the
2012 IIHF Women's World Championship
The 2012 IIHF World Women's Championships was the 14th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation and took place in Vermont, United States, at the Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington, and the Cairns Arena in South Burlington. ...
, 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
Burlington Barracudas 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
2019 Aurora Games
The 2019 Aurora Games was a female international multi-sport event that was held between 20 and 25 August 2019 in Albany, New York, United States of America. Planned to be a biennial event, the Times Union Center served as host venue. Al ...
.
Career stats
Team Finland
References
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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
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