Hanne Erika Sikiö (born 19 March 1978) is a Finnish retired

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player. She represented in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi ...

and at three

IIHF Women's World Championship The IIHF Women's World Championship is the premier international women's tournament in ice hockey. It is governed by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The official world competition was first held in 1990, with four more champions ...

tournaments, winning bronze in

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

and

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

. Sikiö played four seasons with the

Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey The Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey team plays for the University of Minnesota Duluth at the AMSOIL Arena in Duluth, Minnesota. The team is a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) and competes in the National C ...

program, from 1999 to 2003, making her one of the earliest Finns in North American collegiate women's ice hockey,

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Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs

Salt Lake 2002

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* * * * 1978 births Living people Finnish women's ice hockey forwards HPK Kiekkonaiset players Tappara players Ilves Naiset players Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey players JYP Jyväskylä Naiset players Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Finland Ice hockey people from Pirkanmaa Tappara Naiset players {{Finland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub