Kirsi Hänninen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kirsi Hänninen

ice hockey player

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1976

Place of Birth: Joensuu, Eastern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland

Profession: ice hockey player, pesäpallo player

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Kirsi Maaria Hänninen (born 3 October 1976 in Joensuu, Finland) is a retired Finnish ice hockey defenceman and pesäpallo player.
She played 116 games with the Finnish national ice hockey team and won a bronze medal with them at the 1998 Winter Olympics.Over her ten-year hockey career, Hänninen played with five different teams in the Naisten SM-sarja, the highest level women's hockey league in Finland.
She spent four seasons, from 1996 to 2000, with JYP Jyväskylä and won the SM-sarja Championship with them in 1996 and 1997.
She also played with JoKP (1992–93), Kiekko-Espoo (1993–94), KalPa (1995–96), and Oulun Kärpät (2001-02).Hänninen is equally known in Finland for her career in the Superpesis, Finland's top pesäpallo league, where she competed from 1993 to 2005.