Gunilla Victoria Andersson (born April 26, 1975) is an

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 hock ...

player from

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. Andersson played

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for the

Sweden women's national ice hockey team The Swedish women's national ice hockey team ( sv, Sveriges damlandslag i ishockey) or Damkronorna ("the Lady Crowns" in Swedish) represents Sweden at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World Women's Championships. The women's nation ...

, winning a silver medal at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

and a bronze medal at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

.Damkronorna
damkronorna.se Also she played with the

Segeltorps IF Segeltorps IF is a Swedish football club located in Kungens Kurva. Background Segeltorps Idrottsföreningen is a sports club in Kungens Kurva in Huddinge Municipality in Metropolitan Stockholm. The club is well known for its women's ice-hockey ...

in the

Riksserien The Swedish Women's Hockey League ( sv, Svenska damhockeyligan), abbreviated SDHL, is the elite league for women's ice hockey in Sweden. It was established in 2007 as the by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association and was renamed prior to the 2016� ...

(Sweden league elite).

Awards and honors

*''Best players of each team'' selection (as voted by coaches),

2011 IIHF Women's World Championship The 2011 IIHF World Women's Championships was held in April 2011 in Zürich and Winterthur, Switzerland, and took place at Hallenstadion and Deutweg rink. Leading goaltenders Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have play ...

References

1975 births Living people Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Olympic ice hockey players of Sweden Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for Sweden People from Älvkarleby Municipality Swedish women's ice hockey defencemen Sportspeople from Uppsala County {{Sweden-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub