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Finland (Sr.)

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Junior:
Finland (Jr.) 28–1 Sweden (Sr.)
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, World champ2 apps = Junior: 6
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Senior: 14 including 1998 Summit Series , World champ2 first =

, World champ2 best = , Record = , pattern_he1 = , pattern_la1 = , pattern_b1 = , pattern_ra1 = , pattern_sh1 = , pattern_so1 = , leftarm1 = FFFFFF , body1 = FFFFFF , rightarm1 = FFFFFF , shorts1 = 000080 , pattern_he2 = , pattern_la2 = , pattern_b2 = , pattern_ra2 = , pattern_sh2 = , pattern_so2 = , leftarm2 = 000080 , body2 = 000080 , rightarm2 = 000080 , shorts2 = 000080 , - !align=center style=background:#CEE0F2 , Seniors , - , - , - !align=center style=background:#CEE0F2 , Juniors , - , - , - !align=center style=background:#CEE0F2 , Juniors , - The Finland national ringette team, ( fi, Suomen naisten ringettemaajoukkue), more commonly known as "Team Finland", is the

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team representing

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internationally. Finland has both a senior national team, Team Finland Senior, and a junior national team, Team Finland Junior. Both national teams compete in the

(WRC) and are overseen by

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, ( fi, Suomen Ringetteliitto) which is a member of the

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(IRF). Finland's first appearance in international ringette took place at the first

. Team Finland and Team Canada have emerged as ringette's major international rivals at both the senior and junior level. Historically, Team Finland Senior dominates the Senior Pool, while Team Canada Junior dominates the Junior Pool. ⁣⁣ was the head coach of the senior national team from March 2011 to 2020 after which Pasi Kataja was chosen to become the team's next head coach. Kataja was previously the coach of the Finnish senior national ringette team from 2003–2006 and the head coach of the junior national team from 1999–2002.

History

Finland's first appearance in international ringette took place at the 1990 World Ringette Championships which was the inaugural year for the

(WRC). One Finland senior amateur ringette team represented the country, "Team Finland", while the Canadians sent six different Canadian teams to compete. Since the 1990 WRC, a single amateur national Finland team has served as the country's senior representative, with Team Finland Senior eventually competing against Team Canada Senior in the 1998 Summit Series. The

2009 World Junior Ringette Championships The 2009 World Junior Ringette Championships, (''2009 WJRC'') also known as the ''U19 2009 World Championships'', was an international ringette tournament and the first World Junior Ringette Championships organized by the International Ringette ...

was the first ringette tournament where an international competition took place specifically for junior players between ringette playing nations. Team Finland Junior (U19) is Finland's junior representative. Today junior national ringette teams compete in the Junior Pool at the

after the junior tournament merged with the larger senior program in

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World Championship record

Summit Series

The 1998 World Ringette Championships were replaced by a ''Summit Series'' between Team Canada and Team Finland, both of which were senior teams. Team Finland finished in first place defeating Team Canada.

Senior Finland

Junior Finland

Team Finland Senior

Team Finland Senior's first appearance in international ringette took place at the first

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. However, the team was initially known only as "Team Finland" until the addition of the junior level at the

, after which it has been known as Team Finland Senior. Having competed at every World Championships since, they have won nine of the fourteen events, marking them as the most successful national ringette side by far.

Team Finland Junior

The World Junior Ringette Championship tournament was created separately from the major competition between senior national teams (the

) and was established in 2009 by the International Ringette Federation. At the

, Finland was represented by two U19 (Under–19) teams, the Finland White Stars and the Finland Blue Stars. For the next World Junior Ringette Championships, the

2012 World Junior Ringette Championships The 2012 World Junior Ringette Championships, (''2012 WJRC'') also known as the ''U19 2012 World Championships'', was an international ringette tournament and the 2nd edition of the World Junior Ringette Championships organized by the Internatio ...

, Finland sent only one Finland junior amateur ringette team, Team Finland U19. While Finland had formed its first all-junior Finland national ringette team in 2012, its arch-rival, Canada, did not form its first all-junior Canadian national ringette team until 2013. However, by 2013, the Junior tournament was officially merged with the World Ringette Championship and ceased as a separate event. From WRC 2013 onward, all competing ringette nations with Junior national ringette teams compete in the

program along with Senior national teams but did so in a separate Junior Pool, currently dominated by Team Canada. Team Finland Junior and Team Canada Junior compete in a best-of-three series with the winner of the world ringette junior title also hoisting the Juuso Wahlsten Trophy.

Notable people

Players

* (née Kyhälä) *⁣⁣⁣ - Marjukka Virta (now retired as a player) won seven World Ringette Championship gold medals for Team Finland (Senior) with six of them as the national team's captain. The Finnish ringette association,

, decided Virta's game number 4 will be frozen on November 1 in

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. Virta is the first Finnish ringette player in history to have been given this honour. *⁣⁣ *

Susanna Tapani Susanna "Suski" Tapani (born 2 March 1993) is a Finnish multi-sport elite athlete who competes in ice hockey, ringette, and in-line hockey. She is a member of the Finnish national ice hockey team and Finnish national ringette team. Tapani i ...

⁣⁣ * * * * Anna Vanhatalo * * * * – Vaarakallio won the 1992 World Ringette Championships bronze. She stopped playing ringette after receiving a six-month suspension for kicking an opponent who was lying on the ice. * * *

Juuso Wahlsten

Juhani Jorma Kalevi Wahlsten, Juuso Wahlsten, is called "The Father of Finnish Ringette" and was responsible for introducing ringette to Finland in 1979. The

junior trophy has been named in his honour, the '' Juuso Wahlsten Trophy''. Wahlsten also competed in the

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as a member of the Finland men's national ice hockey team and was inducted into the

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Timo Himberg

⁣⁣

Gallery

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(née Kyhälä)
second from right

References

Ringette players