Riikka Sallinen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Riikka Sallinen

ice hockey player

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1973

Place of Birth: Jyväskylä, Finland

Profession: ice hockey player, pesäpallo player, bandy player

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Hanna-Riikka Sallinen (née Nieminen, previously Välilä, born 12 June 1973) is a retired Finnish ice hockey, bandy, rink bandy, and pesäpallo player.
She is known internationally for playing on the Finnish national ice hockey team during 16 seasons.
Her international debut with the team was at the 1989 Women's European Championship and she notably won bronze medals at the 1998 and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
Sallinen was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame on 21 May 2010 in Cologne, Germany, as part of the World Championship festivities; she was only the fourth woman to receive this honor.Sallinen's bronze medal at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang made her the oldest ice hockey medallist at a Winter Olympics.
She was awarded the medal at age 44, 20 years after she first won a medal in the first women's Olympic hockey tournament.