Riikka Sallinen

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FinlandFinland  Riikka Sallinen Ice hockey player
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2010
Date of birth June 12, 1973
place of birth Jyväskylä , Finland
size 163 cm
Weight 61 kg
position center
number # 13
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1988-1989 EVU
1989-1992 JyPHT
1992-1993 SC Lyss
1993-1994 Keravan Shakers
1994-1995 JYP Naiset
1995-1996 KalPa
1996-2000 JYP
2000-2002 JyHC
2002-2003 Limhamn HC
2013-2016 JYP Naiset
since 2016 HV71

Hanna-Riikka Sallinen , b. Nieminen , gsch. Välilä , (born June 12, 1973 in Jyväskylä ) is a Finnish ice hockey , bandy , rinkbandy and pesapallo player , who achieved her greatest international success by winning the bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics with the Finnish national ice hockey team. Since 2016 she has been playing for HV71 in the Swedish Svenska damhockeyligan .

Career

National competitions

Riikka Nieminen began her career in 1988 with Etelä-Vantaan Urheilijat in the Finnish Naisten SM-sarja . Further stations in Finland were JYP Naiset , the Keravan Shakers and KalPa Kuopio . She played in a total of 116 games, in which she scored 179 goals, prepared 163 more and collected a total of 342 points scorer. She led her teams to a total of four Finnish championship titles . She also played abroad for two years, for example in the 1992/93 season at SC Lyss in the Swiss performance class A - with which she won the Swiss championship title - and in the 2002/03 season at Limhamn HC in the Riksserien .

Between 1998 and 2001, she missed a large part of the games due to multiple knee injuries that ultimately forced her to retire for the time being.

In spring 2013 Välilä resumed ice training and from August 2013 played for JYP in the SM-sarja in order to recommend himself for the Olympic squad for the 2014 Winter Olympics . In the following years she reached the Finnish runner-up with JYP twice (2014 and 2015), before becoming Finnish champion again in 2016. In addition, she was named the most valuable player in the play-offs in 2016. After this success she moved to the Swedish women's league SDHL for HV71 , with which she took second championship place in 2017.

Other sports

Riikka Välilä not only played ice hockey, but was also successful in other sports. In 1989 she won the national championship in Bandy , Rinkbandy and Pesäpallo in addition to the ice hockey championship . Further national rinkbandy championship titles followed until the mid-1990s and a gold medal at the European Rinkbandy Championships in 1989.

International

Riikka Välilä completed a total of 118 international matches for Finland , in which she scored 109 goals and 95 assists, collecting 204 points scorer with 24 penalty minutes. She first attracted international attention when she was the top scorer in the 1997 Women's Ice Hockey World Championship . A year later she repeated this success at the Winter Olympics in Nagano , where she scored 7 goals and 5 assists in just 6 games and won the bronze medal with Finland. She is considered to be the first European ice hockey player whose individual skills were comparable to those of the players from North America. Välilä ran a total of 3 European and 4 World Championships and took part in their second Olympic Winter Games in 2002. She won the European title three times (1989, 1993 and 1995) and four bronze medals at world championships (1990, 1992, 1994 and 1997).

For her achievements at home and abroad, Välilä was inducted into the Finnish Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2010 she was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame as the fourth woman and first European .

In 2014 , the now 40-year-old Riikka Välilä completed her third Olympic Winter Games, scoring 5 points in six games. In the following years she won second bronze medals at the World Championships in 2015 and 2017, before she was nominated for her fourth Winter Olympic Games in 2018. At the tournament in South Korea she won the Olympic bronze medal, was the oldest Finnish woman in the history of the Winter Games and the oldest female medalist in Olympic ice hockey. At the 2019 World Cup , she reached the final with the Finnish women for the first time and ultimately won the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

ice Hockey

Bandy

  • 1989 Finnish champion with JPS
  • 1990 Finnish champion with JPS
  • 1991 Finnish champion with JPS
  • 1992 Finnish champion with JPS

Rinkbandy

  • 1989 gold medal at the European Championships
  • 1989 Finnish champion with JPS
  • 1990 Finnish champion with JPS
  • 1992 Finnish champion with JPS
  • 1993 Finnish champion with TRIO 90
  • 1994 Finnish champion with TRIO 90
  • 1995 Finnish champion with TRIO 90
  • 1996 Finnish champion with TRIO 90

Pesäpallo

  • 1989 Finnish champion with Kiri
  • 1989 player of the year
  • 1992 Finnish champion with LaVi
  • 1992 player of the year
  • 1993 Finnish champion with LaVi
  • 1993 player of the year

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
1988/89 EVU SM-sarja 6th 19th 7th 26th 2
1989/90 JYP I-divisioona 4th 5 3 8th 0
1991/92 JYP I-divisioona 10 41 3 44 2
1992/93 SC Lyss Performance class A
1993/94 Keravan Shakers SM-sarja 21st 73 56 129 8th 5 11 11 22nd 4th
1994/95 JYP I-divisioona 8th 35 13 48 25th
1995/96 KalPa SM-sarja 10 10 8th 18th 0
1996/97 JyP HT SM-sarja 24 26th 38 64 0 6th 3 5 8th 4th
1997/98 JYP SM-sarja 12 13 8th 21st 2 6th 2 8th 10 0
1999/00 JYP SM-sarja 2 1 0 1 0
2000/01 JyHC SM-sarja 9 10 9 19th 6th 1 4th 2 6th 0
2001/02 JyHC SM-sarja 13 10 12 22nd 2 2 1 1 2 2
2002/03 Limhamn HK Division 1 - - - - - 3 3 3 6th 0 2
2013/14 JYP SM-sarja 13 7th 12 19th 18th 8th 5 11 16 12
2014/15 JYP SM-sarja 14th 12 25th 37 8th 7th 5 7th 12 4th
2015/16 JYP SM-sarja 11 20th 19th 39 6th 6th 5 5 10 2
2016/17 HV71 SDHL 23 10 11 21st 12 +11 6th 3 3 6th 4th +1
2016/17 IF Troy-Ljungby Division 1 1 2 3 5 0
2017/18 HV71 SDHL 36 15th 32 47 24 +17 2 1 1 2 2 -2
2018/19 HV71 SDHL 33 14th 37 51 8th +26 4th 1 1 2 25th –6

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM +/-
1989 Finland EM 5 9 2 11 2
1990 Finland WM 5 8th 2 10 4th
1992 Finland WM 5 6th 2 8th 0
1993 Finland EM 3 2 2 4th 0
1994 Finland WM 5 4th 9 13 4th +11
1995 Finland EM 5 9 14th 23 2
1997 Finland WM 5 5 5 10 0
1998 Finland Olympia 6th 7th 5 12 4th +14
2002 Finland Olympia 5 0 3 3 2 -2
2014 Finland Olympia 6th 1 4th 5 0 +1
2015 Finland WM 6th 0 6th 6th 0 +2
2016 Finland WM 6th 1 5 6th 0 -4
2017 Finland WM 6th 1 2 3 2 +0
2018 Finland Olympia 6th 4th 1 5 0 -2
2019 Finland WM 5 0 4th 4th 2 +2

Private

Riikka's father Ensio won the Pesäpallo championship in the 1960s, her brother Lasse is a Finnish ice hockey champion and her brother Juha Pesäpallo is a champion.

Riikka Nieminen married the former ice hockey player Mika Välilä in 2002 and carried his last name until 2018. Riikka has three children with her first husband. In 2018 she married the former actor Petteri Sallinen and took his name on.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seasons 1988/1989 - 1994/1995. In: frauennati.ch. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c vapriikki.fi, Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame - Honored Members - Riikka Välilä
  3. ↑ mtv3.fi, Riikka Nieminen haluaa johtaa naarasleijonat loppuotteluun , February 11, 2002
  4. ^ Risto Pakarinen: Välilä makes comeback - IIHF Hall of Famer un-retires after ten years - aims at Sochi. In: iihf.com. August 21, 2013, accessed May 29, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b iihf.com, IIHF Hall welcomes five - Nieminen fourth woman inducted, Lou Vairo honored
  6. ↑ thesportreview.com, Sochi 2014: Super Mum Hanna-Riikka Valila returns to ice hockey 12 years on , February 10, 2014
  7. ↑ olympiakomitea.fi, TEAM FINLAND XXIII Olympic Winter Games - PyeongChang 2018 , p. 75 (PDF file)
  8. ↑ Bronze: Riikka Välilä (44) is the oldest medalist in ice hockey. In: hockeyweb.de. February 21, 2018, accessed October 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ ewhj.org, Hanna-Riikka Valila returns to the Olympic arena ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Sallinen, Riikka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nieminen, Hanna-Riikka (maiden name); Välilä, Hanna-Riikka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey, bandy, rinkbandy and pesapallo player
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Jyväskylä , Finland