Riikka Sallinen
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2010 | |
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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
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Bandy
- 1989 Finnish champion with JPS
- 1990 Finnish champion with JPS
- 1991 Finnish champion with JPS
- 1992 Finnish champion with JPS
Rinkbandy
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Pesäpallo
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Career statistics
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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 | +/- | |
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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
- Riikka Sallinen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Riikka Sallinen at eurohockey.com
- Riikka Sallinen at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Andrew Podnieks: Valila as old as the Worlds - 43-year-old just can't retire. In: worldwomen2017.com. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seasons 1988/1989 - 1994/1995. In: frauennati.ch. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c vapriikki.fi, Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame - Honored Members - Riikka Välilä
- ↑ mtv3.fi, Riikka Nieminen haluaa johtaa naarasleijonat loppuotteluun , February 11, 2002
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ a b iihf.com, IIHF Hall welcomes five - Nieminen fourth woman inducted, Lou Vairo honored
- ↑ thesportreview.com, Sochi 2014: Super Mum Hanna-Riikka Valila returns to ice hockey 12 years on , February 10, 2014
- ↑ olympiakomitea.fi, TEAM FINLAND XXIII Olympic Winter Games - PyeongChang 2018 , p. 75 (PDF file)
- ↑ Bronze: Riikka Välilä (44) is the oldest medalist in ice hockey. In: hockeyweb.de. February 21, 2018, accessed October 30, 2018 .
- ↑ ewhj.org, Hanna-Riikka Valila returns to the Olympic arena ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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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 |