Anna Amholt (born 28 March 2000) is a Swedish retired

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. Considered by many to be the next great goaltending talent of the Swedish national ice hockey team, her career was halted when she contracted

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in April 2020 and continued experiencing long-term symptoms. which ultimately led her to retire from ice hockey in October 2022.

Playing career

From 2016 to 2018, she played for

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, splitting her time between the club's team in the

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(SDHL) and its second side in the

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. She won the Swedish Championship with Luleå in

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. Amholt signed with

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ahead of the 2018–19 SDHL season. She held two shutouts in a row in the first weeks of October 2018. She then missed part of the season due to a concussion suffered during training. Ahead of the 2019–20 season, she signed with HV71 Dam. She was sidelined after playing only five games, however, as she suffered another concussion and was forced to miss most of the season. At age 20, she fell ill with COVID-19 during the

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in the spring of 2020 and was hospitalised in November 2020 after struggling with continuing issues from

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International career

Amholt won a gold medal with the Swedish national under-16 team in the girls' ice hockey tournament at the

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. With the Swedish national under-18 team, she participated in the

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and

. She was named Best Goaltender of the tournament in 2018, as Sweden claimed the silver medal.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Amholt, Anna 2000 births Living people 21st-century Swedish sportswomen HV71 (women) players HV71 players Ice hockey people from Gothenburg Ice hockey players at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics Luleå HF/MSSK players Swedish women's ice hockey goaltenders Youth Olympic gold medalists for Sweden