{{short description|Finnish ice hockey and bandy player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox ice hockey biography | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|11|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = Jyväskylä, Finland | death_date = | death_place = | height_cm = 173 | weight_kg = 61 | position = Defence | shoots = Left | played_for = {{ubl | '''Ice hockey''' | JYP Jyväskylä | Ilves Tampere | KalPa Kuopio | '''Bandy''' | Kampparit Mikkeli | Veiterä Lappeenranta | Botnia-69 Helsinki | JPS Jyväskylä }} | sex = f | ntl_team = FIN | career_start = 1995 | career_end = 2018 | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{FIN}}}} {{MedalSport|Women's ice hockey}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championship}} {{MedalBronze|1999 Finland|}} {{MedalSport|Women's bandy}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championship}} {{MedalBronze|2004 Finland|}} {{MedalBronze|2008 Sweden|}} {{MedalBronze|2012 Russia|}} }}
'''Pirjo Hannele Ahonen''' (née '''Nieminen''', previously '''Blomqvist'''; born 5 November 1970) is a Finnish retired ice hockey defenceman and bandy player and a former member of the Finnish women's national ice hockey team and national bandy team.
In ice hockey, she won a bronze medal with the Finnish national team at the 1999 IIHF Women's World Championship and competed in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2002 Winter Olympics.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ah/pirjo-ahonen-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181735/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ah/pirjo-ahonen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Pirjo Ahonen Olympic Results |accessdate=11 March 2019}}</ref> Her ice hockey club career was played in the Naisten SM-sarja with KalPa Naiset, Tampereen Ilves Naiset, and JYP Jyväskylä Naiset, which was also known as the Jyväskylän Hockey Cats (JyHC) during her tenure.<ref name="Jääkiekkokirja 2021">{{Cite book|last1=Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto|url=https://www.jaakiekkokirja.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Jaakiekkokirja-2020-21_2.pdf|title=Jääkiekkokirja 2021: Suomen Jääkiekkoliiton ja Liiga Kausijulkaisu 2020–2021|last2=Jääkiekkon SM-liiga Oy|publisher=Uusi Suomi/Kiekkolehti|year=2020|editor-last=Aaltonen|editor-first=Juha|publication-place=Helsinki|pages=508|language=fi|issn=0784-3321|author-link=Finnish Ice Hockey Association|author-link2=Liiga|access-date=2020-11-13}}</ref>
Ahonen holds the record for most games played with the Finnish women's national bandy team, appearing in 63 international matches with the team. Having represented Finland at a number of Women's Bandy World Championships, she won bronze medals at the tournaments in 2004, 2008, and 2012. Her bandy club career was played with Jyväskylän Seudun Palloseura (JPS), Botnia-69 Helsinki, Veiterä Lappeenranta, and Mikkelin Kampparit. Ahonen was named the Finnish Women's Bandy Player of the Year by the Finnish Bandy Association three times, in 2005, 2007, and 2012.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.finbandy.fi/fi/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/JPK2020-net.pdf|title=Jääpallokirja 2020|date=2020|publisher=Suomen Jääpalloliito|editor1-last=Koskela|editor1-first=Kristina|location=Helsinki|pages=128, 147, 149|language=fi|issn=0784-0411|access-date=2021-02-22|editor2-last=Karlsson|editor2-first=Tobias|editor3-last=Hoppu|editor3-first=Tuomas}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{ice hockey stats}} * {{Olympics.com|pirjo-ahonen}} * {{Olympedia}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ahonen, Pirjo}} Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:Finnish bandy players Category:Finnish women's ice hockey defencemen Category:Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics Category:Ilves Naiset players Category:JYP Jyväskylä Naiset players Category:Jyväskylän Hockey Cats players Category:KalPa Naiset players Category:Olympic ice hockey players for Finland Category:Sportspeople from Jyväskylä
{{Finland-icehockey-defenceman-stub}}