Katja Lehto
Appearance
Katja Lehto | |||
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Born |
Jyväskylä, Finland | 14 August 1972||
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb; 9 st 2 lb) | ||
Position | Defence | ||
Shot | Left | ||
Played for |
JYP Jyväskylä KalPa Kuopio | ||
National team | Finland | ||
Playing career | 1994–2000 | ||
Medal record |
Katja Maarit Lehto (born 14 August 1972) is a Finnish retired ice hockey player.[1] She played with the Finnish national ice hockey team throughout the 1990s and won a bronze medal at the inaugural Olympic women's ice hockey tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics.[2] With the national team, she also won bronze at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 1999 and 2000, and gold at the 1995 IIHF European Women Championship.
Lehto’s club career was played in the Naisten SM-sarja with KalPa Naiset and JYP Naiset.
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Katja Lehto". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Finland Ice Hockey at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
Categories:
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Jyväskylä
- Finnish women's ice hockey defencemen
- Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
- Olympic ice hockey players of Finland
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- JYP Jyväskylä Naiset players
- JyP HT Naiset players
- KalPa Naiset players
- 20th-century Finnish people
- Finnish ice hockey player stubs
- Finnish Winter Olympic medalist stubs