# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linda-leppanen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:40:03.009Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linda-leppanen"
name: "Linda Leppänen"
slug: "linda-leppanen"
description: "Linda Leppänen née Välimäki is a Finnish retired ice hockey forward and coach. Representing Finland, she won bronze medals at the Winter Olympic Games in 2010 and 2018 and at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2015 and 2017, and a silver medal at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship. In total, she played 167 matches with the Finnish national team. Leppänen announced her retirement from top athletic competition several months after achieving her career highlight world championship silver medal."
tagline: "Finnish ice hockey player and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Linda_Lepp%C3%A4nen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1990-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.27177866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%B3%E8%BE%BE%C2%B7%E8%8E%B1%E4%BD%A9%E5%AE%81"
    title: "琳达·莱佩宁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "ليندا ڤاليماكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lepp%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Linda Leppänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lepp%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Linda Leppänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%BE%D9%86%D9%86"
    title: "لیندا لپنن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lepp%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Linda Leppänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_V%C3%A4lim%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Linda Välimäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lepp%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Linda Leppänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_V%C3%A4lim%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Linda Välimäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_V%C3%A4lim%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Linda Välimäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BF%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Леппянен, Линда"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_V%C3%A4lim%C3%A4ki"
    title: "Linda Välimäki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q367091"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump