Position Defense Role Ice hockey player Sweden team Linkopings HC Height 1.73 m | National team Slovakia Weight 66 kg Name Iveta Karafiatova | |
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Born May 14, 1988 (age 35)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia ( 1988-05-14 ) | ||
Iveta Karafiatova (born 14 May 1988 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia), is a Slovak female ice hockey forward. Karafiatova participated in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games for Slovakia.
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Playing career
Karafiatova, along with fellow Slovakian national team members Zuzana Tomcikova, and Martina Velickova played on boys' teams until Slovak league rules stated they could not play after they attained age 16. All three continued their careers by playing hockey in Saskatchewan for head coach Barrett Kropf at Caronport High School in 2004. Karafiatova, Tomcikova, and Velickova played for the Caronport Lady Cougars but Karafiatova and Tomcikova also played on the boys team.
She was part of the Slovak roster that defeated Bulgaria by an 82-0 score in September 2008 in the Olympic Pre-Qualification tournament in Latvia. In the win, she accumulated 11 points.
In 2009, she competed in the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Women’s Championship Division I, in Graz, Austria. She was part of the Slovak team that qualified for the top division of the 2011 World Women's Championships.
Vancouver Winter Games
She played for the Slovakia women's team in the 2010 Olympics, the country's first appearance in women's ice hockey outside Europe. Of note, she was the captain of the Slovak national team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games. Her first Olympic women's ice hockey game was 13 February 2010 against Canada. Slovakia lost the game by an 18-0 mark and she was penalized for roughing in the first period. She did not register any points in the Olympic tournament as Slovakia finished in eighth place.
Awards and honors
Personal
Karafiatova attended university in Linkopings, Sweden, where she played defense on the varsity hockey team.