Kiira Yrjänen (born 2 January 2002) is a Finnish

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player and member of the Finnish national team. She is signed with

Leksands IF Leksands Idrottsförening is a Swedish professional ice hockey team from the town of Leksand in the region of Dalarna. The team plays in the top-tier league, Swedish Hockey League (SHL), after succeeding through the 2019 SHL qualifiers and thus ...

in the

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(SDHL) through the 2025–26 season.

International play

As a junior player with the national under-18 team, Yrjänen represented Finland the

IIHF U18 Women's World Championship The IIHF U18 Women's World Championship, officially the IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship, is an annual ice hockey tournament for national women's under-18 (U18) ice hockey teams, administered by the International Ice Hockey Federa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

, and

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, and with the bronze medal team in

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

. Yrjänen's first goal with the senior national team was scored on 6 February 2020 in a match against the Swiss national team at the Finals Tournament of the 2019–20 Women's Euro Hockey Tour. Yrjänen was officially named to the Finnish roster for the

2020 IIHF Women's World Championship The 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship was scheduled to be an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was scheduled to be contested in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax and Truro, Nova Scotia, Truro, Ca ...

on 4 March 2020, before the tournament was cancelled on 7 March 2020 due to public health concerns related to the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yrjänen, Kiira 2002 births Living people Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Finnish women's ice hockey forwards HV71 (women) players Kiekko-Espoo Naiset players Leksands IF (women) players Naisten Liiga All-Stars Sportspeople from Riihimäki Ice hockey people from Kanta-Häme Team Kuortane players 21st-century Finnish sportswomen