Frida Nevalainen
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Frida Margareta Nevalainen (born 27 January 1987 in Umeå, Sweden) is an ice hockey player. Nevalainen is a defenceman for the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics.[1] (In Swedish)
Her twin brother Patrik plays with Swedish second league team IF Björklöven.
Nevalainen was the second woman of all time to participate in the TV-pucken tournament, and the first to do so representing the province of Västerbotten.
She has also played for Tornado Moscow Region, a Russian team. Originally representing IF Björklöven she later transferred to Modo Hockey in the Riksserien (Sweden league elite). She played for the University of Windsor in the 2007-08 season.
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players of Sweden
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
- People from Umeå
- Swedish people of Finnish descent
- Swedish women's ice hockey players
- Twin people from Sweden
- Twin sportspeople
- Swedish ice hockey player stubs
- Swedish Winter Olympic medalist stubs