Martina Rašková Veličková (born 17 February 1989), is a Slovak women’s

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, most recently of ŽHK Šarišanka Prešov in the 2017–18 season of the Slovak Women's Extraliiga. She served as

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of the Slovak national team in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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Playing career

Veličková, along with fellow Slovak national team members

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, and Iveta Karafiátová played on boys' teams until Slovak league rules prevented them from continuing with those teams once they turned 16. All three continued their careers by playing hockey in

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for head coach Barrett Kropf at Caronport High School in 2004. Karafiátová, Tomčíková, and Veličková played for the Caronport Lady Cougars but Karafiátová and Tomčíková also played on the boys team. She was part of the Slovak roster that defeated by an 82–0 score in September 2008 in the Olympic Pre-Qualification tournament in

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. In the win, she accumulated 17 points. In 2009, she competed in the 2009 IIHF World Women’s Championship Division I, which was played in Graz, Austria. She was part of the Slovak team that qualified for the top division of the 2011 World Women's Championships. At the

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s, Slovakia played in a best of three relegation series. In the second game, Veličková beat

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for the only goal in the shootout as Slovakia won the relegation series.

Vancouver Winter Games

She played for in the

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. It was the first time that Slovakia competed in women's ice hockey outside of Europe. Of note, she was the captain of the Slovak national team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games. Her first Olympic women's ice hockey game came on February 13, 2010 against . Slovakia lost the game by an 18-0 mark. Her first Olympic points came on February 20, 2010. Veličková assisted on both goals in a 4-2 loss to . She would finish with three assists in the Olympic tournament as Slovakia finished in eighth place.

Career stats

Winter Olympics

References

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* * 1989 births Living people Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Slovakia Sportspeople from Prešov Ice hockey people from the Prešov Region Slovak women's ice hockey forwards Universiade medalists in ice hockey Universiade bronze medalists for Slovakia Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade {{Slovakia-icehockey-bio-stub