{{Short description|Swedish ice hockey player (born 1979)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox ice hockey player | image = Erika Holst in 2022.jpg | caption = | image_size = 230px | alt = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|04|08|df=y}} | birth_place = Varberg, Sweden | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 10 | weight_lb = 159 | position = Centre | shoots = Left | team = | league = | played_for = Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs<br />Linhamn BK<br />M/B Hockey<br />Segeltorps IF | ntl_team = SWE | draft = | draft_year = | draft_team = | career_start = 1994 | career_end = 2013 | medaltemplates= {{MedalSport|Women's ice hockey}} {{MedalCountry|{{SWE}}}} {{MedalOlympic}} {{MedalSilver| 2006 Turin |Team}} {{MedalBronze| 2002 Salt Lake City |Team}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalBronze|2005 Sweden|}} {{MedalBronze|2007 Canada|}} }}
'''Ylva Erika Holst''' (born 8 April 1979) is a Swedish former ice hockey player. She was a member of the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.<ref name="olympics">{{citation |url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp?RESULT=TRUE&KEYWORD=HOLST+and+erika |title=Search Results |periodical=Olympic Athletes |access-date=5 November 2007}}</ref>
==Playing career== ===Minnesota Duluth=== Born in Varberg, Sweden, Holst played for the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey program. She was part of the Bulldogs team that won the first three NCAA women's championships in 2001, 2002 and 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hhof.com/html/wmspla03.shtml |title=HHOF Site Map |publisher=Hhof.com |access-date=28 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203052216/http://www.hhof.com/html/wmspla03.shtml |archive-date=3 December 2010 }}</ref>
===Sweden=== She played with the Segeltorps IF in the Riksserien (Sweden league elite). She has represented Sweden in nine Women's World Ice Hockey Championships. In ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Holst led the Swedish team with five points in five games. This marked the second Olympics in which she was the team leader in scoring. Four years later, in the win over the United States in the semifinal game in Turin, Holst had one assist.
==Personal== Holst came out as lesbian in 2006, along with fellow hockey player Ylva Lindberg.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/sport/story/0,2789,833971,00.html |title=OS-hjältarna: Vi är homosexuella |publisher=Aftonbladet |date=2006-05-31 |access-date=2014-01-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810012324/http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/sport/story/0,2789,833971,00.html |archive-date=2007-08-10 }}</ref>
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