Petra Ojaranta

Petra Ojaranta (born March 17, 1976, Turku) is a Finnish ringette player. She is one of Finland's most successful ringette players of all time and has been involved in winning six World Ringette Championships, including the 1998 EuroTour, playing for the Finland national ringette team.

Ojaranta also competed in two national ringette leagues, SM Ringette in Finland and the National Ringette League in Canada, as well as the Ringette World Club Championship and Canadian Ringette Championships.

Career Petra Ojaranta developed a passion for ringette at the age of 9. She started playing for the Turku club and during her career represented the South West Finland region with various clubs including Turku, VG-62 and (EKS).

World Ringette Championships

Ojaranta competed in the World Ringette Championships eight times. She eventually became the oldest player of the Finland national team since she had been selected since 1994 and accumulated numerous international medals.

Finland National At the national level she reached 4 Finnish professional elite league championships, and won three silver medals and a bronze. She was selected on the All Stars team in 2000-2001 and 2002–2003.

SM Ringette Ojaranta is sixth after the 2021–2022 season in the all-time point statistics of the SM Ringette league. She played 680 games and scored power points in them: 725 + 1103 = 1828.

Since 2005, she has been playing for the RNK Flyers, where in addition she takes care of training the junior teams affiliated to the club. In 2010–11, she helped her team win the national SM Ringette championship.

Canada Canadian Ringette Championships Ojaranta also has experience in Canada, where she played in the 2001–02 season, in Edmonton. Her Alberta team placed second at the Canadian Ringette Championships. At that time, the Canadian championship was strictly amateur and the National Ringette League did not exist.

National Ringette League In addition to Finland, Ojaranta has played in Canada's National Ringette League in the ranks of the Edmonton Ringette Club, and in the BC Thunder team in Vancouver.

Statistics Club

International + Statistics per competition Year Event Results 1994 World Ringette Championships Gold 1996 World Ringette Championships 6 8 4 12 - - Silver 1998 World Ringette Championships (EuroTour) Gold 2000 World Ringette Championships Gold 2002 World Ringette Championships Silver 2004 World Ringette Championships Gold 2007 World Ringette Championships 4 4 11 15 - 4 Gold 2010 World Ringette Championships 5 2 2 4 - 0 Gold

Awards SM Ringette gold - 2011, 2017?? - 4 Finnish championship titles Gold medal - World Ringette Championships - 1994, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2010 World Ringette Championship silver - 1996, 2002 Ringette World Club Championship silver for club teams - 2011 Canadian Ringette Championships - silver- 2001-02

Individual honours Voted to the elite Finnish semi-professional ringette league, SM Ringette, All-Star Team for the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons

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