Maria Helena Saarni (born 8 September 1977) is a
Finnish retired
ice hockey
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player.
She was a member of the
Finnish women's national ice hockey team throughout the 1990s and won a bronze medal at the
inaugural Olympic women's ice hockey tournament at the
1998 Winter Olympics
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.
With the national team, she also won bronze at the
IIHF Women's World Championship
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The official world competition was first held in 1990, with four more champions ...
tournaments in
1999
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and
2000
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, and at the
1996 IIHF European Women Championship.
See also
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List of Olympic women's ice hockey players for Finland
A women's ice hockey tournament has been played at every Winter Olympics since its introduction at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to include women's hockey as an Olympic event in July 1992.
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1977 births
Living people
Ice hockey people from Helsinki
Finnish women's ice hockey forwards
Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
Olympic ice hockey players for Finland
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Kiekko-Espoo Naiset players
Espoo Blues Naiset players
Jyväskylän Hockey Cats players
LoKV Naiset players
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