Kirsi Hänninen
Kirsi Maaria Hänninen 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, Kiekko-Espoo, KalPa, and Oulun Kärpät.
Hänninen is equally known in Finland for her career in the Superpesis, Finland's top pesäpallo league, where she competed from 1993 to 2005.
Personal life
Hänninen is a founding member of VRT Finland, an underwater structural inspection company operating in the Baltic Sea and Central Europe, and currently serves as CEO of the company.Awards and honors
| Award | Year |
| Superpesis Best Runner Most Runs in the Regular Season | 1995, 1996, 2000 |
| Superpesis Champion | 1996 1997 2000 |
| Finnish Pesäpallo Association Player of the Year Suomen Pesäpalloliitto Naispesäpalloilijaksi | 2000, 2004 |
| Superpesis Best Batter Most Hits in the Regular Season | 2004 |
| Superpesis Golden Bat Player-elected Best Offensive Player | 2004 |