Mira Markström (born January 30, 2005) is a Swedish

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and member of the Swedish national under-18 ice hockey team, currently playing on a junior contract with

HV71 Dam HV71 are a professional ice hockey club in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They play in Jönköping, in the southern Swedish province of Småland, at the Husqvarna Garden. History The club was originally formed independently in Ma ...

of the

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(SDHL). She also plays

floorball Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role ...

with

Jönköpings IK Jönköpings IK is a floorball club in Jönköping Jönköping (, ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Små ...

. On 21 April 2023, Mira Markström announced her retirement from ice hockey while continuing playing floorball.

Playing career

Markström began playing ice hockey at the age of four, and played on boys' teams in her home town of Jönköping until she was 15. She made her SDHL debut with HV71 in the 2019–20 season, picking up three assists in 20 games. She added another assist in six playoff games as the club made it to the championship finals against

Luleå HF/MSSK Luleå Hockey/MSSK is a professional ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL), the top-tier of women's ice hockey in Sweden. They play in Luleå, a port city in northern Sweden, at the Coop Norrbotten Arena. The team is the m ...

before the season was cancelled due to the

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. In 2019, she scored the first goal in the first-ever girls

TV-pucken TV-pucken ( en, the TV puck) is a Swedish national ice hockey tournament for district teams of boys under 15 years of age. Since 2019, girls also compete in TV-pucken with their own tournament. It was created on the initiative of Swedish ice hockey ...

tournament. It only took her 11 games to surpass her rookie production in her second season, having scored 4 points in the first 11 games of the

2020–21 SDHL season The 2020–21 SDHL season was the 14th season of the Swedish Women's Hockey League ( sv, Svenska damhockeyligan; SDHL). The season began on 12 September 2020 and concluded on 26 February 2021. All ten teams were able to complete a full 36-game r ...

, including her first professional goal.

International play

A an ice hockey player, she represented Sweden at the

2020 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship The 2020 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship was the 13th Women's U18 World Championship in ice hockey. Top Division Match officials 9 referees and 9 linesmen were selected for the tournament. ;Referees * Henna Åberg * Darya Abrosimova * Gab ...

, picking up one assist in five games as Sweden finished in fifth. She also represented

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at the

2022 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship The 2022 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship was the 14th Women's U18 World Championship in ice hockey. On December 24, 2021, the tournament was cancelled for the second year in a row by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) due to th ...

. As a floorball player, she represented Team Sweden U19 during a Euro Floorball Tour comeptition in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...

in late October 2022.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Markström, Mira 2005 births Living people Ice hockey people from Jönköping Swedish women's ice hockey defencemen Swedish floorball players HV71 (women) players 21st-century Swedish women