Frida Nevalainen
Frida Nevalainen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Umeå, SWE | January 27, 1987||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 143 lb (65 kg; 10 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Defence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shot | Left | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Played for |
IF Björklöven Modo Hockey Segeltorps IF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team |
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Playing career | 2001–2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Frida Margareta Nevalainen (born 27 January 1987 in Umeå, Sweden) is an ice hockey player.[1] Nevalainen is a defenceman for the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics.[2] (In Swedish)
Her twin brother also played professional ice hockey, playing in the SM-liiga with Lukko and the Elitserien for Timrå IK.
Nevalainen was the second woman of all time to participate in the TV-pucken tournament, and the first to do so representing the province of Västerbotten.
She has also played for Tornado Moscow Region, a Russian team. Originally representing IF Björklöven she later transferred to Modo Hockey in the Riksserien (Sweden league elite). She played for the University of Windsor in the 2007–08 season.
References[]
- ^ "Frida NEVALAINEN - Olympic Ice Hockey | Sweden". International Olympic Committee. 2016-06-19. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
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- 1987 births
- Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players of Sweden
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
- People from Umeå
- Swedish people of Finnish descent
- Swedish women's ice hockey defencemen
- Twin people from Sweden
- Twin sportspeople
- Swedish ice hockey player stubs
- Swedish Winter Olympic medalist stubs