Anna Vanhatalo

Anna Vanhatalo
Born February 29, 1984
Helsinki, Finland
Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight 143 lb (65 kg; 10 st 3 lb)
Position Goaltender
Catches Left
SM-liiga team Espoo Blues
National team  Finland
Playing career 2002present
Olympic medal record
Women's ice hockey
Competitor for  Finland
World Championships
Bronze 2011 Switzerland
Women's Winter Olympics
Bronze 2010 Vancouver
Women's 4 Nations Cup
Bronze 2010 Canada

Anna Vanhatalo (born February 29, 1984) is a hockey and ringette player who competes for Finland women's national ice hockey team and for Finland women's national ringette team. Vanhatalo excels at her 2 sports.

Ringette career

Since 2002, Vanhatalo plays in the Finnish professional league Ringeten SM-sarja and is member of the Finland ringuette national team . She won two golden medals in the world Championships (Stockholm, 2004 and Ottawa, 2007).[1] She was elected the better goalkeeper of the 2004 world Championship.[2]

In 2006, Vanhatalo went Canada to play one season for Montreal Mission in the National Ringette League.[3] In exchange, her Finnish team Helsinki Ringette[4] commits Claudia Jetté, the Montreal Mission goalkeeper.[5]

Ice hockey career

In autumn, 2009, she started playing the goalkeeper position in ice hockey with the women's team of the hockey club Espoo Blues in the SM-liiga of Finland. The performances of Vanhatalo with Espoo Blues and in the Europe Cup to allow her to obtain goalkeeper's post holder with the national team of Finland. She played in the Tournament of 4 nations, in the Vancouver Winter Olympics and in the 2011 World championship in Switzerland.

Vanhatalo play at present for SKIF Nijni Novgorod, a team which evolves in Russia Women'Championship.

Personal life

During her stay in Quebec in 2006, she learns French language. In 2009, she obtains her master's degree of Economics Helsinki School . The subject of its thesis is the sponsoring for the women' sports. She has mastered several languages: Finnish, Swedish, German, English and French.

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