Ice hockey player
| Sarah Forster | |||||||||||||||||
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.JPG) Forster with Linköping HC during the 2015 Swedish Championship finals | |||||||||||||||||
| Born |
(1993-05-19) 19 May 1993 (age 31) Berneck, St. Gallen, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defence | ||||||||||||||||
| Shoots | Left | ||||||||||||||||
| PHF team Former teams |
Metropolitan Riveters | ||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2011–present | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sarah Forster (born 19 May 1993) is a Swiss ice hockey player and member of the Swiss national team who played in the now defunct Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) with the Metropolitan Riveters. A three-time Olympian, she won a bronze medal with Switzerland in the women’s ice hockey tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics and competed in the women’s ice hockey tournament at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the women’s ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Forster has participated in seven IIHF Women's World Championships during 2012 to 2021, and won a bronze medal at the 2012 tournament.
Personal life
Forster comes from a hockey playing family. Her father, Marcel, played in the National League B (NLB) throughout the 1980s and served as assistant coach to HC Ajoie during 2011 to 2015. Her two younger siblings play ice hockey in Swiss leagues – Gaëtan (born 1997) in the 2. Liga of the Regio League and Justine (born 2001) in the Swiss Women's Hockey League B (SWHL B).
References
- "Athletes: Sarah FORSTER". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- "Swiss name 48 players". pyeongchang2018.iihf.hockey. 15 August 2018. Archived from the original on 10 February 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- "Le Jura comme point d'encrage …". HC Delémont-Vallée (in French). 12 February 2018. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
- Sarah Forster at Olympedia (archive)
- Sarah Forster at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1993 births
- Living people
- AIK Hockey Dam players
- Brynäs IF (women) players
- Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Leksands IF (women) players
- Linköping HC (women) players
- Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Metropolitan Riveters players
- Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic ice hockey players for Switzerland
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Swiss women's ice hockey defencemen
- Swiss expatriate ice hockey people
- Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
- Sportspeople from the canton of St. Gallen
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