Kim Martin Hasson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kim Martin Hasson

ice hockey player

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1986

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Profession: ice hockey player

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Kim Martin Hasson

  • Kim Kristine Martin Hasson (born 28 February 1986) is a retired Swedish goaltender who currently serves as general manager for Linköping HC Dam of the Svenska Damhockeyligan (SDHL).
  • With the Swedish national team she won two Olympic medals, bronze in 2002 and silver in 2006, and two IIHF World Women's Championships bronze medals, in 2005 and 2007.
  • Martin Hasson played in the SDHL with AIK and Linköping HC, in the Russian Women's Hockey League with Tornado Dmitrov, in the NCAA Division I with the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, in the J20 SuperElit with the Malmö Redhawks’ junior men's team, and in the J18 Allsvenskan with Hammarby IF's junior men’s team.
  • She was scheduled to make her debut with the Malmö Redhawks of the HockeyAllsvenskan, the second-tier men’s league in Sweden, on 8 March 2006, as the first woman to ever play for a professional men’s team in Sweden but this move was vetoed by the University of Minnesota Duluth, the U.S.
  • school that had offered her a scholarship to play hockey.
  • This was because the NCAA, the main governing body for U.S.
  • college sports, prohibits athletes at its member schools from having previously played in a professional league, even if they are not paid.

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