Eveliina Similä
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Eveliina Similä (born 10 April 1978) is a Finnish 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. She competed in 73 matches with the Finnish national team, including the
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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 the
IIHF World Championship The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; french: Fédération internationale de hockey sur glace; german: Internationale Eishockey-Föderation) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 83 m ...
in 2004 and 2005. Representing
Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
, she won a World Championship bronze medal in 2004. In Finland, she played with
Ilves Ilves (; Finnish for "Lynx") is a Finnish professional ice hockey team based in Tampere. They play in the Liiga at the Tampere Deck Arena. The colors of Ilves, green, yellow, and black, were taken from what was then the coat of arms of the cit ...
and
HPK Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho (HPK) is a professional ice hockey team in the Liiga, the top men's ice hockey league in Finland. Their home ice is the Ritari-areena in Hämeenlinna. HPK was established in 1929. The parent club of the team is HPK Edu ...
of the Naisten SM-sarja and won the Finnish Championship twice, with Ilves in 2006 and with HPK in 2011. In 2012, she won a bronze medal with HPK at the IIHF European Women's Champions Cup tournament.


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* 1978 births Living people Finnish women's ice hockey forwards Olympic ice hockey players of Finland Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics People from Akaa Ilves Naiset players HPK Kiekkonaiset players Sportspeople from Pirkanmaa {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub