Erika Holst
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Erika Holst is a Swedish ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player. She is a member of the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She won a silver medal
Silver medal
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 at the 2006 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...

 and a bronze medal
Bronze medal
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 at the 2002 Winter Olympics
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event that was celebrated in February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Approximately 2,400 athletes from 77 nations participated in 78 events in fifteen disciplines, held throughout...

.

Minnesota Duluth

Holst played for the Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey
Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey
The Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey team plays for the University of Minnesota Duluth at the AMSOIL Arena in Duluth, Minnesota. The team is a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the Division I tier...

 program. She was part of the Bulldogs team that won the inaugural NCCA women's championship in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Sweden

She play with the Segeltorps IF
Segeltorps IF
Segeltorps IF is a Swedish football club located in Kungens Kurva. -Background:Segeltorps Idrottsföreningen is a sports club in Kungens Kurva in Huddinge Municipality in Metropolitan Stockholm. The club is well known for its women's ice-hockey team....

 in the Riksserien
Women's ice hockey in Sweden
Women's Ice Hockey in Sweden has 3 425 players in 2011. The Riksserien is the league elite of Women's ice Hockey. This league is organized by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association...

 (Sweden league elite). She has represented Sweden in nine Women's World Ice Hockey Championships. In ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics were held at the E Center in West Valley City and Peaks Ice Arena in Provo, Utah. Both the men's and women's tournaments were won by Canada, defeating the host USA in both games.-Men:...

, 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.
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