Iveta Klimášová (born 14 January 1998) is a Slovak
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, playing in the Finnish
Naisten Liiga
The Kansallinen Liiga ('National League') is the premier division of women's football in Finland. It was previously called the Jalkapallon naisten SM-sarja ('Women's Football Finnish Championship Series') during 1974 to 2006 and the Naisten Lii ...
(NSML) with
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, ...
. She was a member of the
Slovak national ice hockey team
The Slovakia men's national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team of Slovakia and is controlled by the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation. A successor to the Czechoslovakia national team, it is one of the most successful national ice hockey ...
during the 2010s.
Klimášová and national team teammate
Lenka Čurmová were the first Slovak players to play in the North American
Premier Hockey Federation
The Premier Hockey Federation (PHF), formerly the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), is a women's professional ice hockey league located in the United States and Canada. The league was established in 2015 with four league-owned teams and ha ...
(PHF; called NWHL until 2021).
She wears the number 8 as an homage to
Alexander Ovechkin.
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1998 births
Living people
Buffalo Beauts players
European Women's Hockey League players
Expatriate ice hockey players in Hungary
HPK Kiekkonaiset players
Ice hockey people from the Košice Region
MAC Budapest (women) players
People from Gelnica
Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in Finland
Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Slovak women's ice hockey forwards
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