Satu Tuominen (born 19 November 1985) is a Finnish retired

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player. She played in more than 110 international matches with the Finnish national team, won two

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bronze medals, and participated in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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. With the Finnish national team, she won IIHF Worlds bronze medals in

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and

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Playing career

Tuominen spent the entirety of her club career in Finland and played eleven seasons in the top-tier

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(NSMs; renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017). She made her Naisten SM-sarja debut with the

Espoo Blues Kiekko-Espoo is a Finnish professional ice hockey club founded in 2018 as a continuation of the Kiekko-Espoo team originally founded in 1984. Kiekko-Espoo men's team plays in the Liiga, where they were promoted for the 2024–25 Liiga season, 20 ...

in the 2001–02 Naisten SM-sarja season and went on to play the next seven seasons with the team, winning the

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seven times across her eight seasons with the club. She joined Alavuden Peli-Veikot (APV) in the 2009–10 Naisten SM-sarja season, playing in two regular season games and eleven games of the post-season

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series. After two seasons with the women's representative team of in the third-tier

Naisten Suomi-sarja The Naisten Suomi-sarja (), distinguished as the Jääkiekon naisten Suomi-sarja (), is the third-tier women's national ice hockey league in Finland. It was established by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 2003 and is the lowest tier of natio ...

, Tuominen returned to the Naisten SM-sarja as a player for Team Oriflame in the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons.

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* * 1985 births Living people Espoo Blues Naiset players Finnish women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey people from Vantaa Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2009 Winter Universiade Olympic ice hockey players for Finland Team Kuortane players FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Finland Winter World University Games medalists in ice hockey 21st-century Finnish sportswomen {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub