Laura Benz (born 25 August 1992) is a Swiss
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 ...
defender.
International career
Benz was selected for the
Switzerland national women's ice hockey team in the
2010 Winter Olympics
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games () and also known as Vancouver 2010 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with ...
. She played in all five games, scoring a goal.
Benz has also appeared for Switzerland at one
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 ...
. Her first appearance came in
2009
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.
Benz made three appearances for the
Switzerland women's national under-18 ice hockey team, at two levels of the
IIHF World Women's U18 Championships
The IIHF U18 Women's World Championship, officially the IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship, is an annual ice hockey tournament for national women's under-18 (U18) ice hockey teams, administered by the International Ice Hockey Feder ...
. Her first came in
2008
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IIHF – Team Switzerland Stats – 2010 U-18 World Championship Division I
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Personal life
Her twin sister Sara Benz
Sara Benz (born 25 August 1992 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a Swiss ice hockey forward, who shoots left.
International career
Benz was selected for the Switzerland national women's ice hockey team in the 2010 Winter Olympics. She played i ...
is also a hockey player.
Career statistics
See also
* List of Olympic medalist families
References
External links
*
Sports-Reference Profile
1992 births
Living people
Ice hockey people from Zurich
Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for Switzerland
Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Swiss women's ice hockey defencemen
Swiss twins
21st-century Swiss sportswomen
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