Rosa Lindstedt

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Rosa Lindstedt
Lindstedt at the 2011 World Championship
Born (1988-01-24) 24 January 1988 (age 36)
Ylöjärvi, Finland
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb; 12 st 8 lb)
Position Defense
Shot Left
Played for
Current SDHL coach Brynäs IF
National team  Finland
Playing career 2003–2023
Coaching career 2023–present
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Vancouver Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Pyeongchang Ice hockey
World Championship
Silver medal – second place 2019 Finland
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Sweden
Bronze medal – third place 2017 United States
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Canada

Rosa Lindstedt (born 24 January 1988) is a Finnish ice hockey coach and retired ice hockey defenseman, currently serving as assistant coach to Brynäs IF Dam in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). As player with the Finnish national ice hockey team, she was a three-time Olympian, two-time Olympic bronze medalist, and four-time IIHF Women's World Championship medalist.

Playing career[edit]

Her senior club career began at age fourteen with the women's representative team of the Ylöjärven Ilves (Y-Ilves) in the 2002–03 season of the Naisten SM-sarja (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017), the premier women's ice hockey league in her native Finland. In the Naisten SM-sarja, she went on to play with Tappara Naiset (2003–2007), Tampereen Ilves Naiset (2007–2012), and JYP Jyväskylä Naiset (2012–2016), twice winning the Finnish Championship, with Ilves in 2010 and JYP in 2016.

Lindstedt relocated to the SDHL in the 2016–17 season, signing with HV71 Dam. She played with HV71 for four seasons, serving as an alternate captain in the 2017–18 and 2019–20 seasons. She joined Brynäs IF ahead of the 2020–21 SDHL season and was named captain the following season.

International play[edit]

Lindstedt won bronze medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics, a silver medal at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship and bronze medals at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2015, 2017, and 2021, and a bronze medal at the 2010 Four Nations Cup in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Personal life[edit]

Lindstedt was born on 24 January 1988 in Ylöjärvi, a town in the Tampere sub-region of southwestern Finland.

She is the grandniece of Marko Asell, an Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling and member of Finnish Parliament.[1]

Career statistics[edit]

International[edit]

Year Team Event Result   GP G A Pts PIM
2010 Finland OG 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 0 1 1 10
2011 Finland WW 4th 6 0 1 1 22
2012 Finland WW 4th 6 1 0 1 6
2013 Finland WW 4th 6 1 0 1 8
2014 Finland OG 5th 5 0 1 1 6
2015 Finland WW 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 3 0 3 8
2016 Finland WW 4th 6 0 1 1 4
2017 Finland WW 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 0 2 2 8
2018 Finland OG 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 0 0 0 2
2019 Finland WW 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 7 1 1 2 2
2021 Finland WW 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7 0 1 1 2
2023 Finland WW 5th 7 2 1 3 4
73 8 9 17 82

Sources:[2][3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Athletes: Rosa Lindstedt". Olympedia.org. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  2. ^ Podnieks, Andrew; Nordmark, Birger, eds. (2019). "Active Skaters, Women". IIHF Guide & Record Book 2020. Toronto: Moydart. p. 653. ISBN 9780986796470.
  3. ^ "2023 IIHF Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: FIN - Finland". International Ice Hockey Federation. 16 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.

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