Katariina Johanna "Kati" Kovalainen (born 24 January 1975) is a Finnish retired

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player and former member of the Finnish national ice hockey team. She represented

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in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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, at nine

IIHF Women's World Championship The IIHF Women's World Championship is the premier international women's tournament in ice hockey. It is governed by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The official world competition was first held in 1990, with four more champions ...

s, and at two

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. Her club career spanned nineteen seasons and was played in the Finnish

Naisten SM-sarja The is the national premier league for women's ice hockey in Finland. Founded by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association as the Naisten Suomen mestaruus, SM-sarja (NSMs; ) in 1982, it was known as the Naisten Liiga (NSML;) from 2017 until being rebr ...

with the

Imatran Ketterä Imatran Ketterä is an ice hockey club based in Imatra, Finland. Ketterä plays in the Finnish second-tier league, Mestis, during the 2022–23 season. Ketterä has played in Mestis since 2017 and has won the championship three times (2019, 2021, ...

, Kalevan Pallo Naiset, the Keravan Shakers, the Espoo Blues Naiset, and

HPK Kiekkonaiset HPK Kiekkonaiset () or HPK Naiset are an ice hockey team in the Auroraliiga, the premier women's ice hockey league in Finland. They play in Hämeenlinna, a city in the Finnish south-central province of Kanta-Häme, at the (HML hh; ), a secondar ...

; and in the Russian Women's Hockey League with

SKIF Nizhny Novgorod HK SKIF Nizhny Novgorod () were a Russian professional ice hockey team in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) until 2022, at which time their league rights were transferred to Hockey Club Torpedo and the team became ZhHK Torpedo. HC SKIF played ...

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* * 1975 births Living people Finnish women's ice hockey forwards Espoo Blues Naiset players HPK Kiekkonaiset players Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics IHK Naiset players KalPa Naiset players Keravan Shakers players Naisten Liiga All-Stars Olympic ice hockey players for Finland People from Leppävirta HC SKIF players Ice hockey people from North Savo {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub