Finland national ringette team#1994 Seniors

Finland's first appearance in international ringette took place at the 1990 World Ringette Championships which was the inaugural year for the World Ringette Championships (WRC). One Finland senior amateur ringette team represented the country, "Team Finland", while the Canadians sent six different Canadian teams to compete.{{cite web |url=https://www.ringette.ca/event_results/1990-world-ringette-championship-gloucester-ontario-canada/ |title=1990 World Ringette Championship (Gloucester, Ontario, Canada) |website=ringette.ca |author= |date= |access-date=30 May 2022 |publisher=Ringette Canada |language=en |archive-date=31 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531094116/https://www.ringette.ca/event_results/1990-world-ringette-championship-gloucester-ontario-canada/ |url-status=dead }} Since the 1990 WRC, a single amateur national Finland team has served as the country's senior representative, with Team Finland Senior eventually competing against Team Canada Senior in the 1998 Summit Series.

The 2009 World Junior Ringette Championships was the first ringette tournament where an international competition took place specifically for junior players between ringette playing nations. Team Finland Junior (U19) is Finland's junior representative. Today junior national ringette teams compete in the Junior Pool at the World Ringette Championships after the junior tournament merged with the larger senior program in 2013.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

The 1998 World Ringette Championships were replaced by a Summit Series between Team Canada and Team Finland, both of which were senior teams. Team Finland finished in first place defeating Team Canada.

Team Finland Senior's first appearance in international ringette took place at the first World Ringette Championships in 1990 in Gloucester, Ontario. However, the team was initially known only as "Team Finland" until the addition of the junior level at the World Ringette Championships in 2013, after which it has been known as Team Finland Senior.{{cite web |url=http://yle.fi/urheilu/3-5927294|title=Ringeten MM 2000-projekti käynnistyy|trans-title=Ringete's MM 2000 project starts|website=yle.fi|author= |date=25 November 1999|access-date=30 September 2022|publisher=Yle|language=fi}}{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/WorldRingetteChampionships/photos/a.756063601520823/1484379148689261/?type=3 |title=Finland's First National Ringette Team in 1990|website=facebook.com |author= |date=30 June 2022|access-date=1 August 2022 |publisher=World Ringette Championships |language=en}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ringette.fi/fi/Ringetteliitto/Lajin+historia.html|title=HISTORIA {{!}} SUOMEN RINGETTELIITTO PERUSTETTIIN 5.5.1983|trans-title=HISTORY {{!}} RINGETTE FINLAND WAS ESTABLISHED ON MAY 5, 1983|website=ringette.fi|author= |date=2022|access-date=29 September 2022|publisher=Ringette Finland|language=en}} Having competed at every World Championships since, they have won nine of the fourteen events, marking them as the most successful national ringette side by far.

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The World Junior Ringette Championship tournament was created separately from the major competition between senior national teams (the World Ringette Championships) and was established in 2009 by the International Ringette Federation. At the 2009 World Junior Ringette Championships, Finland was represented by two U19 (Under–19) teams, the Finland White Stars and the Finland Blue Stars.

For the next World Junior Ringette Championships, the 2012 World Junior Ringette Championships, Finland sent only one Finland junior amateur ringette team, Team Finland U19. While Finland had formed its first all-junior Finland national ringette team in 2012, its arch-rival, Canada, did not form its first all-junior Canadian national ringette team until 2013. However, by 2013, the Junior tournament was officially merged with the World Ringette Championship and ceased as a separate event. From WRC 2013 onward, all competing ringette nations with Junior national ringette teams compete in the World Ringette Championships program along with Senior national teams but did so in a separate Junior Pool, currently dominated by Team Canada. Team Finland Junior and Team Canada Junior compete in a best-of-three series with the winner of the world ringette junior title also hoisting the Juuso Wahlsten Trophy.

• Salla Kyhälä
• Marjukka Virta{{cite web |url=https://www.savonsanomat.fi/urheilu/4806642|title=Menestyneen ringettepelaajan pelinumero jäädytetään: "Tosi mahtava juttu ja merkitsee minulle paljon" |trans-title=A successful ringette player's game number is frozen: "Really great thing and means a lot to me"|website=savonsanomat.fi|author=Ismo Huotari |date=25 August 2022|access-date=25 August 2022|publisher=savonsanomat|language=fi}}
• {{interlanguage|Anne Pohjola|fi}}⁣⁣
• Susanna Tapani⁣⁣
• {{interlanguage link|Kristiina Heinonen|fi}}
• {{interlanguage|Katja Kortesoja|fi}}
• {{interlanguage|Petra Ojaranta|fi}}
• Anna Vanhatalo
• {{interlanguage|Riikka Häyrinen|fi}}
• {{interlanguage|Kirsi Pukkila|fi}}
• {{interlanguage|Emma-Julia Wood|fi}}
• {{interlanguage|Petra Vaarakallio|fi}} – Vaarakallio won the 1992 World Ringette Championships bronze. She stopped playing ringette after receiving a six-month suspension for kicking an opponent who was lying on the ice.
• {{interlanguage|Anna-Kaisa Raesola|fi}}
• {{interlanguage|Elina Raesola|fi}}
• {{interlanguage|Kristiina Siitonen|fi}}

{{Main|Juhani Wahlsten}}

Juhani Jorma Kalevi Wahlsten, {{aka}} Juuso Wahlsten, is called "The Father of Finnish Ringette" and was responsible for introducing ringette to Finland in 1979. The World Ringette Championships junior trophy has been named in his honour, the Juuso Wahlsten Trophy. Wahlsten also competed in the Winter Olympics as a member of the Finland men's national ice hockey team and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.

{{Main|Timo Himberg}}

File:Crashed Ice Québec 2011.jpg| Salla Kyhälä
second from right

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• Juhani "Juuso" Wahlsten

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• [http://www.irfringette.com/ International Ringette Federation]
• [https://history.ringettecalgary.ca/ The History of Ringette in Calgary]
• {{flagicon|Canada}} [http://www.ringette.ca/ Ringette Canada]
• {{flagicon|Finland}} {{in lang|fi}} [http://ringette.skrl.fi/ Ringette Finland]
• {{flagicon|USA}} [https://teamusaringette.com/ Team USA Ringette]
• {{flagicon|Sweden}} {{in lang|sv}} [http://www.sweringette.se/ Sweden Ringette Association]
• {{flagicon|Slovakia}} {{in lang|cs}} [http://www.ringette.estranky.sk Ringette Slovakia]
• {{flagicon|Czech Republic}} {{in lang|cs}} [http://www.test.ringet.cz/ Czech Ringette] ({{langx|cs|Česky Svaz Ringetu}})

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