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

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 and a bronze medal

Bronze medal

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 at the 2002 Winter Olympics

2002 Winter Olympics

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Minnesota Duluth

Holst played for the Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey

Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey

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 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.