Anne Tuomanen

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Anne Tuomanen
Born (1987-04-15) 15 April 1987 (age 37)
Jyväskylä, Finland
Height 164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 62 kg (137 lb; 9 st 11 lb)
Position Wing
Shot Left
Played for
National teamFlag of Finland.svg  Finland
Playing career 2002–2019
Medal record
World Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Switzerland
Universiade
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2009 Harbin Ice hockey

Anne Tuomanen (born 15 April 1987) is a Finnish retired ice hockey winger and former member of the Finnish national team, who played in the Naisten Liiga (NSML) for fifteen seasons. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning Finnish team at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship and the silver medal-winning team at the 2011 Winter Universiade [1] [2] In total, Tuomanen represented Finland in 76 international matches, including at the 2013 IIHF Women's World Championship and at the 2011 MLP Nations Cup. [3] [4]

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Playing career

Tuomanen played in the Naisten SM-sarja (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017) with the Jyväskylän Hockey Cats (JyHC; renamed Cats Jyväskylä in 2004) during 2002 to 2007, HPK during 2009 to 2011 and 2015–16, and the Tampereen Ilves during 2011 to 2015 and from 2016 until her retirement in 2019. Over the course of her career, she played more than 350 Naisten Liiga regular season games and skated in 75 playoff games. [5] She won the Finnish Championship in 2011 with HPK, the inaugural recipients of the Aurora Borealis Cup, won three Finnish Championship silver and two Finnish Championship bronze medals, and was named a 2010–11 Naisten SM-sarja All-Star. [6]

She served as captain of Ilves Tampere during the 2016–17 Naisten SM-sarja season and the 2018–19 Naisten Liiga season.

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References

Content in this article is translated from the existing Finnish Wikipedia article at fi:Anne Tuomanen; see its history for attribution.

  1. ↑ Miettinen, Miska (17 July 2017). "Rullanaiset venyivät upeasti - Tshekistä tarttui mukaan historiallinen mitali!". Finnish Ice Hockey Association (in Finnish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "Naisleijonat ensi kertaa arvoturnauksen finaaliin". MTV3 . 4 February 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "2011 MLP Nations Cup: Player Statistics by Team, FIN - Finland" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation . 8 January 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 January 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  4. ↑ "2011 MLP Nations Cup: Team Roster, FIN - Finland" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation . 4 January 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 January 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  5. ↑ Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto; Liiga. Aaltonen, Juha (ed.). Jääkiekkokirja 2019–2020 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Uusi Suomi/Kiekkolehti. p. 548. ISSN   0784-3321. OCLC   476321083.
  6. ↑ Teiskonlahti, Essi (17 March 2019). "Bluesin naiset voiton päässä Aurora Borealis -kannusta – tehokas viimeistely ja ahnas ylivoima tuottivat taas isonumeroisen voiton". Yle (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
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