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Marjukka Virta
Marjukka Virta (born 1983 in Karinainen, Finland) is a retired elite Finnish ringette player who played forward in semi-professional ringette in Finland and for the Finland national ringette team, but now coaches the sport. Virta (now retired as a player) has won six World Ringette Championships gold and one silver as a player for Team Finland Senior. For six of those national team world victories, Virta was the captain. As a semi-professional player, Virta played in Finland's SM Ringette league, Finland's premiere ringette league, formerly known as Ringeten SM-sarja. The Finnish ringette association, Ringette Finland, froze Virta's jersey number 4 on November 1, 2022, in Turku and is the first Finnish ringette player in history to receive this honour. The freeze officially took place in the Rajupaja Areena before the game against Team Canada. Career Marjukka Virta has been playing ringette since she was 8 years old and during her junior career played for the TPS Turku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karinainen
Karinainen is a former municipality of Finland. It was merged to Pöytyä in the beginning of 2005. It was located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 2,457 (2004) and covered an area of 92.41 km² of which 0.09 km² was water. The population density was 26.73 inhabitants per km². The municipality was unilingually Finnish. Former municipalities of Finland Populated places disestablished in 2005 {{WesternFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringette Finland
Ringette Finland, ( fi, Suomen Ringetteliitto) is the national governing body for the sport of ringette in Finland and was founded in 1983. It is responsible for the organization and promotion ringette on a nationwide basis and organizes Finland's semi-professional ringette league, the , now known as "SM-Ringette". In 1986 the organization became a member of the International Ringette Federation which at the time was known as the "World Ringette Council". Ringette Finland is also responsible for scouting ringette talent in the country in order to create the Finland national ringette teams for both Team Finland Senior and Team Finland Junior who then compete at the World Ringette Championships. Ringette was brought to Finland in 1979 by Juhani Wahlsten and the first ringette clubs in Finland were established in Turku. Players now participate in 31 ringette clubs, with important clubs in Naantali, Turku, Uusikaupunki, Lahti, and Greater Helsinki. Today, the Finnish Ringett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Ice Hockey Players
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. It may also refer to: *Finnish language * Suomi (surname) * Suomi, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Suomi College, in Hancock, Michigan, now referred to as Finlandia University * Suomi Island, Western ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringette Players
Ringette is a non-contact winter team sport played on ice hockey rinks using ice hockey skates, straight sticks with drag-tips, and a blue, rubber, pneumatic ring designed for use on ice surfaces. The sport is among a small number of organized team sports created exclusively for female competitors. Though ice hockey rinks are used, ringette rinks use markings specific to ringette and the sport uses strategic play which more closely resembles basketball than ice hockey. The sport was created in Canada for girls in 1963 by Sam Jacks from West Ferris, Ontario and Red McCarthy from Espanola, Ontario. In 2018, over 50,000 players registered to play the sport. Ringette is played predominantly in Canada and Finland with both countries forming the sport's top international teams on a regular basis. Several other countries currently organize and compete in the sport including Sweden, the United States, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The sport has continued to grow and has spread t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Susanna Tapani
Susanna "Suski" Tapani (born 2 March 1993) is a Finnish multi-sport elite athlete who competes in ice hockey, ringette, and in-line hockey. She is a member of the Finnish national ice hockey team and Finnish national ringette team. Tapani is the subject of a Finnish documentary, ('Icebreaker'), which follows her life as she competes in elite ringette, ice hockey, and in-line hockey from 2015 to 2019. Ice hockey career Tapani has played ice hockey in the Naisten Liiga with TPS Naiset, Lukko Naiset, Espoo Blues Naiset, and HPK Kiekkonaiset; in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with Linköping HC Dam; and with the North Dakota Fighting Hawks women's ice hockey program during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season. Tapani trained with a number of men's professional ice hockey players during the extended pause between the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons due to COVID-19. Under the direction of Ismo Lehkonen, the group – which included NHLers Kaap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salla Kyhälä
Salla Kyhälä, (born January 28, 1983, in Espoo), is a retired elite Finnish ringette player and world champion in both ringette and ice cross downhill. She played semi-pro ringette as a centre for in the elite Finnish semi-professional league, SM Ringette and the Saskatchewan Heat, Saskatoon Wild and BC Thunder in Canada's semi-pro National Ringette League. Kyhälä was also member of the Finland national ringette team several times. Kyhälä was also the Women's World Champion in the World Extreme Downhill Skating Championships in the sport of Ice cross downhill (a.k a. Extreme Downhill Skating) three times. Ringette Salla Kyhälä has been playing ringette since she was 6 years old. World Ringette Championships Kyhälä played for the Finland national ringette team under-20 team (U20) in the World Ringette Champuonships. At the 2010 World Ringette Championships, in the final game against Canada, she scored four goals giving her country the gold medal and world title. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 World Ringette Championships
The upcoming 2022 World Ringette Championships (WRC) is an international ringette tournament taking place in Espoo, Finland, at the Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo Tapiola Arena, and the Matinkylä ice rink between October 31 and November 6, 2022. It will be the 14th time the event has been held (XIV). The previous world championships, the WRC 2021, were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. All WRC events are organized by the International Ringette Federation (IRF). The Finnish Ringette Association () and Kiekko-Espoo Ringette will be hosting and organizing International Ringette Festival 2022, a junior ringette tournament in Espoo from November 3 to November 6, 2022. A youth tournament will be played at the Espoo Tapiola Arena and Matinkylä ice rinks. Overview The 2022 World Ringette Championships will be the first World Ringette Championships since its cancellation in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While exhibition games are scheduled to take place, three major competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Pohjola
Anne Pohjola (born April 18, 1985, in Kuopio, Lapinlahti), is an elite Finnish ringette player who plays forward and is a prolific scorer. She has been a member of the Finland national ringette team several times and currently plays in Finland's semi-professional ringette league, SM Ringette (formerly ). The league is known as the Finnish national ringette league to English speakers. In SM Ringette, she has played for various clubs, mainly , and has served as captain of that club. Ringette career World Ringette Championships Pohjola has won seven World Ringette Championships championships with the Finland national ringette team. At the 2007 World Ringette Championships, she helped Team Finland (Senior) win by scoring the game winning overtime goal. In the final game against Canada, she scored two goals. With a final score of (5-4) Pojhola helped her country win the world title. At the 2017 World Ringette Championships, she scored one goal against Team Canada in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overtime
Overtime is the amount of time someone works beyond normal working hours. The term is also used for the pay received for this time. Normal hours may be determined in several ways: *by custom (what is considered healthy or reasonable by society), *by practices of a given trade or profession, *by legislation, *by agreement between employers and workers or their representatives. Most national countries have overtime labour laws designed to dissuade or prevent employers from forcing their employees to work excessively long hours (such as the situation in the textile mills in the 1920s). These laws may take into account other considerations than humanitarian concerns, such as preserving the health of workers so that they may continue to be productive, or increasing the overall level of employment in the economy. One common approach to regulating overtime is to require employers to pay workers at a higher hourly rate for overtime work. Companies may choose to pay workers higher over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TPS Turku (ringette)
TPS or Tps may refer to: In arts and entertainment *Télévision Par Satellite, a French satellite television company *Third-person shooter, a game genre *Torsonic Polarity Syndrome, in ''South Park'' animation *Trailer Park Sex, a band from Hamburg-St.Pauli, Germany *Transmission Parameters Signalling, in DVB-T digital TV standard *Turner Program Services, TV syndication In government and politics *Temporary protected status, a non-immigration designation in the United States *Toronto Police Service *Toronto Paramedic Services *Telangana Praja Samithi, an Indian political party *U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB, California In mathematics, science, and technology In computing *TPS report, Test Procedure Specification, in quality assurance *Transaction processing system *Transactions per second, usually in database management or digital currencies *Transition path sampling, in rare event sampling In mathematics *Theorem Proving System, Carnegie Mellon University sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringette
Ringette is a non-contact winter team sport played on ice hockey rinks using ice hockey skates, straight sticks with drag-tips, and a blue, rubber, pneumatic ring designed for use on ice surfaces. The sport is among a small number of organized team sports created exclusively for female competitors. Though ice hockey rinks are used, ringette rinks use markings specific to ringette and the sport uses strategic play which more closely resembles basketball than ice hockey. The sport was created in Canada for girls in 1963 by Sam Jacks from West Ferris, Ontario and Red McCarthy from Espanola, Ontario. In 2018, over 50,000 players registered to play the sport. Ringette is played predominantly in Canada and Finland with both countries forming the sport's top international teams on a regular basis. Several other countries currently organize and compete in the sport including Sweden, the United States, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The sport has continued to grow and has spread t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
