Tuula Puputti

Tuula Puputti
Date of birth	5th November 1977
place of birth	Kuopio , Finland
size	162 cm
Weight	60 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
until 1995	Kalevan Pallo
1995-2000	JYP Naiset
1997-2002	University of Minnesota Duluth
2002-2003	JyHC
2004-2005	Jyväskylän Hockey Cats

Tuula Katriina Puputti (born November 5, 1977 in Kuopio ) is a former Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper .

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , she won the bronze medal in the Olympic ice hockey tournament with the Finnish women's national team .

At club level, she played for Kalevan Pallo and JYP Naiset . She won the Finnish championship in 1997 and 1998. Between 1999 and 2002 she played for the University of Minnesota Duluth in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association .

Achievements and Awards

• 1993 gold medal at the European Championship
• 1995 gold medal at the European Championship
• 1997 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1998 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 1999 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2000 bronze medal at the world championship

Web links

• Tuula Puputti at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Tuula Puputti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at uscho.com