Tanja Niskanen (born 11 September 1992) is a Finnish

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player and former member of the Finnish national team, currently playing in the

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with

KalPa Naiset Kalevan Pallo Naiset or KalPa Naiset are an ice hockey team in the Naisten Liiga (NSML), the premier women's ice hockey league in Finland. Founded in 1990, they play in Kuopio, the largest city in the eastern-central province of North Savo, at ...

. Following her second Olympic bronze medal win in February 2022, she announced her retirement from the national team and, in March 2022, confirmed her intention to step away from elite-level club competition following the

2022 Aurora Borealis Cup playoffs The 2022 Aurora Borealis Cup playoffs or the 2022 Naisten Liiga playoffs () is the playoff tournament of the 2021–22 season of the Naisten Liiga. The tournament began on 26 March and the Aurora Borealis Cup was awarded to Kiekko-Espoo Naiset ...

Playing career

Niskanen first joined the senior Finnish national team in 2009 and made her major tournament debut at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship. Representing Finland, she won bronze medals in the women’s ice hockey tournaments at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

in Pyeongchang and 2022 Winter Olympics in

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. She won a silver medal at the

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, won bronze medals at the tournaments in 2011,

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and

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, and participated in the

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.2019 IIHF Women's World Championship roster
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player with the Finnish national under-18 ice hockey team, Niskanen participated in the

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, 2009, and 2010.

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* * * 1992 births Living people People from Juankoski Finnish women's ice hockey forwards KalPa Naiset players JYP Jyväskylä Naiset players Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Olympic ice hockey players of Finland Olympic medalists in ice hockey Sportspeople from North Savo {{Finland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub