Sarah Forster (born 19 May 1993) is a Swiss

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) 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. In ice hockey, two o ...

player and member of the Swiss national team, playing in the

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(PHF) with the

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. A three-time Olympian, she won a bronze medal with Switzerland in the women’s ice hockey tournament at the

2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (russian: Сочи 2014), was an international ...

and competed in the women’s ice hockey tournament at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

and the women’s ice hockey tournament at the

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. Forster has participated in seven

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during

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, and won a bronze medal at the 2012 tournament.

Personal life

Forster comes from a hockey playing family. Her father, Marcel, played in the

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(NLB) throughout the 1980s and served as assistant coach to

HC Ajoie HC Ajoie is a Swiss professional ice hockey team that competes in the National League (NL), the highest league in Switzerland. The team was founded in 1973 and plays in the Raiffeisen Arena in Porrentruy, Switzerland. HC Ajoie has won three Swis ...

during 2011 to 2015. Her two younger siblings play ice hockey in Swiss leagues – Gaëtan (born 1997) in the 2. Liga of the

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and Justine (born 2001) in the Swiss Women's Hockey League B (SWHL B).

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* * * 1993 births Living people AIK Hockey Dam players Brynäs IF (women) players Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Leksands IF (women) players Linköping HC (women) players Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics Metropolitan Riveters players Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Olympic ice hockey players for Switzerland Olympic medalists in ice hockey Swiss women's ice hockey defencemen Swiss expatriate ice hockey people Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Sportspeople from the canton of St. Gallen {{Switzerland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub