Emma Terho

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Emma Terho
Date of birth 17th December 1981
place of birth Washington, DC , USA
size 160 cm
Weight 58 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 2000 Espoo Blues
2000-2004 Ohio State University
2004-2007 Espoo Blues
2007-2008 SKIF Nizhny Novgorod
2008-2015 Espoo Blues

Emma Kristiina Terho , b. Laaksonen , (born December 17, 1981 in Washington, DC , USA ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player who played for the Espoo Blues in the Naisten SM-sarja on the position of defender for many years .

Career

Emma Terho began her career in 1996 with the Espoo Blues and finished third with her team in 1997 and 1998. In 1999 she won her first Finnish championship title with her team .

College ice hockey

In 2000 she decided to move to North America and studied between 2000 and 2004 at Ohio State University . At the same time she played for the Buckeyes , the university 's women's ice hockey team, in the WCHA , a league of the NCAA . In 2002 she was elected to the All America team for her outstanding playing style and nominated for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award . Her part in building the women's ice hockey program at Ohio State University was honored with a ceremony in October 2008, with her # 3 jersey number banned from the university.

Finnish championships with Espoo Blues

After studying at university, she returned to Finland, where she has lived in Espoo with her husband and a son since then . First she played for the Blues again and was captain of the team in the 2006/07 season. In 2005 and 2007 she won another championship title with the Blues, while the team took third place in 2006. During the 2007/08 season she played for SKIF Nizhny Novgorod in the Russian women's championship and won the Russian championship with SKIF at the end of the season . She then returned to Espoo and won two more championship titles with the Blues in 2009 and 2013. During the 2011/12 season she temporarily retired from active sport, but returned to the ice during the play-offs.

In 2015 she ended her career and became general manager of the women's team at the Blues. After the club's withdrawal from the men's Liiga and women's league for financial reasons , Terho played a few games in SM sarja for the successor club Espoo United in the 2016/17 season .

International

After playing for Finland's U22 women between 1995 and 1997, Emma Terho was nominated for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and won the bronze medal as the youngest player on the Finnish national team (16 years and 54 days). This also made her the youngest ever Finnish Olympic medalist.

In 2000 she won the bronze medal at the world championships and repeated this success in the world championships in 2004 , 2008 and 2009 . She also took part in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , 2006 in Turin and 2010 in Vancouver , where she won another bronze medal in 2010.

When Air Canada Cup in 2008 , the World Championships in 2008 and 2009 and the 2010 Winter Games, she was captain of the national team. In the early 2010s, Emma Terho was a member of the Finnish Olympic Committee.

IOC membership

At the 2018 Olympic Winter Games , Terho was elected to the Athletes' Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for eight years and is therefore also a full IOC member .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

season team league Sp T V Pt SM
1996/97 Espoo Blues SM-sarja
1997/98 Espoo Blues SM-sarja
1998/99 Espoo Blues SM-sarja
1999/00 Espoo Blues SM-sarja
2000/01 Ohio State Buckeyes WCHA 34 19th 18th 37
2001/02 Ohio State Buckeyes WCHA 25th 6th 15th 21st
2002/03 Ohio State Buckeyes WCHA 31 6th 15th 21st
2003/04 Ohio State Buckeyes WCHA 35 3 16 19th
2004/05 Espoo Blues SM-sarja
2005/06 Espoo Blues SM-sarja 3 1 1 2 2
2007/08 SKIF Nizhny Novgorod Soot. championship
2008/09 Espoo Blues SM-sarja 3 0 2 2 6th
2009/10 Espoo Blues SM-sarja 18th 3 11 14th 14th
2010/11 Espoo Blues SM-sarja 13 3 9 12 16
2011/12 Espoo Blues SM-sarja not played
2012/13 Espoo Blues SM-sarja 21st 2 22nd 24 10

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1998 Finland Olympia 7th 0 0 0 4th
2000 Finland WM 5 0 0 0 2
2001 Finland WM 5 0 1 1 4th
2002 Finland Olympia 6th 2 2 4th 0
2004 Finland WM 5 0 1 1 2
2005 Finland WM 5 0 1 1 2
2006 Finland Olympia 6th 2 0 2 16
2007 Finland WM 5 0 0 0 10
2008 Finland WM 5 1 3 4th 0
2009 Finland WM 5 0 2 2 4th
2010 Finland Olympia 6th 0 0 0 2
2013 Finland WM 6th 0 0 0 4th
2014 Finland Olympia 6th 0 0 0 12

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Emma Terho  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ohiostatebuckeyes.com, Women's Hockey All-American Emma Laaksonen Honored before Football Game Saturday
  2. ↑ Laaksonen leads lady Lions - Four-time Olympian tired of finishing fourth. In: iihf.com. February 15, 2010, accessed August 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ http://www.ibsf.org/de/news/20540-olympia-teilnehmer-waehlten-zwei-neue-haben-der-ioc-athleten-kommission accessed on September 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Terho, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Terho, Emma Kristiina (full name); Laaksonen, Emma Kristiina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC