Marika Lehtimäki

{{short description|Finnish ice hockey player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|02|07|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Tampere, Finland

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| height_cm = 164

| weight_kg = 70

| position = Forward

| shoots = Right

| played_for = Tampereen Ilves
Ilves-Kiekko

| sex = f

| ntl_team = Finland

| career_start = {{Circa|1986}}

| career_end = 1998

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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze|1998 Nagano|Ice hockey}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championship}}

{{MedalBronze|1994 United States|}}

{{MedalBronze|1992 Finland|}}

{{MedalBronze|1990 Canada|}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championship}}

{{MedalGold|1995 Latvia|}}

{{MedalGold|1993 Denmark|}}

{{MedalGold|1991 Czechoslovakia|}}

{{MedalBronze|1996 Russia|}}

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Marika Johanna Lehtimäki (born 7 February 1975) is a Finnish retired ice hockey player and former member of the Finnish national ice hockey team.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/marika-lehtimaki-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203125828/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/marika-lehtimaki-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-12-03 |title=Marika Lehtimäki}} She played 83 international matches with the national team and was on the bronze medal winning rosters in the women's tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 1990, 1992, and 1994.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/FIN/winter/1998/ICH/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417053926/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/FIN/winter/1998/ICH/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Finland Ice Hockey at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games}} With the Finnish national team she also won four IIHF European Championship medals, three gold and one bronze.{{Cite book|last1=Seukonen|first1=Martin|title=Urheilukunniamme puolustajat: Suomen olympiaedustajat 1906-2000|last2=Arponen|first2=Antti|last3=Grahn|first3=Tuija|publisher=Graface|year=2001|isbn=9519867317|location=Jyväskylä|pages=169|language=fi-fi}}

In Finland, she played the majority of her senior club career with the Tampereen Ilves in the Naisten SM-sarja and won four consecutive Finnish Championships with the team from 1990 to 1993.{{Cite journal|title=Jääkiekkokirja 2007-2008: Suomen jääkiekkoliiton ja SM-liigan virallinen kausijulkaisu|journal=Jääkiekkokirja|publisher=Finnish Ice Hockey Association & Liiga|year=2007|editor-last=Torvinen|editor-first=Jukka|location=Tampere|issn=0784-3321}} Lehtimäki led the league in assists in the 1994–95 season, notching 28 assists in 24 games, while playing on Ilves' top line with Marianne Ihalainen and Sari Marjamäki.