Hanna Sköld (born 4 July 1997) is a Swedish

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forward, currently playing for

Leksands IF Dam Leksands Idrottsförening Dam or Leksands IF Dam are a professional ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They play in Leksand, a town in the western-central Swedish province of Dalarna, at the Tegera Arena. Until 2021, th ...

in the

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(SDHL). She served as Leksands captain during 2019 to 2022, and has appeared intermittently with the Swedish national team.

Playing career

Growing up in

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, Sköld began playing hockey around the age of five, being taught by her father. She lived in Avesta until she was 16, playing as the only girl on the local boys' teams, when she began

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and moved to Leksands, signing with Riksserien club

Leksands IF Leksands Idrottsförening is a Swedish ice hockey team from the town of Leksand in the region of Dalarna. The team plays in the top-tier league, SHL, after succeeding through the 2019 SHL qualifiers and thus earning promotion to the SHL. The c ...

. She scored 9 points in 25 games in her

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Riksserien season. She had a breakout year in 2015–16, notching a career-best 32 points in 36 games and being named to the senior Swedish roster for the World Championships. Her 20 goals made her the seventh-leading goal scorer in the league that season. Her production dropped the following season, scoring only 13 points in 25 games as she missed a significant chunk of the season due to an elbow injury suffered while on international duty. In 2017, she left Leksands to sign with newly-promoted

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and to study in Halmstad. She would only put up 9 points in 33 games during the 2017–18 season, as the club finished last in the league. After only one year in Göteborg, she returned to Leksands, citing her love for the city as the motivation behind her return. Ahead of the 2019–20 season, she was named Leksands captain.

International career

Sköld represented Sweden at the

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and 2015 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, scoring one point in ten games across both tournaments. She was called up to the senior national team for the first time in 2015, appearing in a match against Finland held in Åland. She made her senior World Championship debut at the

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but did not pick up any points in five games.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sköld, Hanna 1997 births Living people Göteborg HC players Leksands IF (women) players People from Avesta Municipality People from Leksand Municipality Ice hockey people from Dalarna County Swedish women's ice hockey forwards