Ylva Lindberg (née Martinsen; born 29 June 1976) is a Swedish retired

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 h ...

player and, , an assistant coach to the Norwegian women's national ice hockey team. She won a silver medal at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second ...

and a bronze medal at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

. Lindberg

came out Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. Framed and debated as a privacy issue, coming out of ...

as lesbian in 2006, along with fellow hockey player Erika Holst. (Swedish)

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* * 1976 births Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics Lesbian sportswomen LGBT ice hockey players Swedish LGBT sportspeople Living people Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Olympic ice hockey players of Sweden Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Sportspeople from Umeå Swedish women's ice hockey defencemen {{Sweden-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub