Alexandra Vafina

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexandrovna and the family name is Vafin.

Alexandra Aleksandrovna "Sasha" Vafina (Russian: Александра Александровна Вафина, also romanized Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Vafina; born 28 July 1990) is a Russian ice hockey forward and member of the Russian national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) with Dinamo-Neva Saint Petersburg.

Alexandra Vafina Александра Вафина
Vafina (r) and teammate Svetlana Tkacheva (l) challenge Swiss forward Darcia Leimgruber (c) at the 2011 World Championship.
Born	(1990-07-28) 28 July 1990 (age 34) Almaty, Kazakh ASSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb; 9 st 0 lb)
Position	Forward
Shoots	Left
ZhHL team Former teams	Dinamo-Neva St. Petersburg KRS Vanke Rays SK Gorny SKIF Nizhny Novgorod Agidel Ufa Calgary Dinos Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs Fakel Chelyabinsk
National team	Russia
Playing career	2008–present
Medal record World Championship 2013 Canada 2016 Canada Winter Universiade 2015 Granada Ice hockey 2017 Astana-Almaty Ice hockey

International career

Vafina was selected for the Russia national women's ice hockey team in the 2010 Winter Olympics. She played in all five games, scoring one goal and two points.^[1][2]

Vafina has also represented Russia at ten IIHF Women's World Championships. Her first appearance came in 2008. She was a member of the team that won a bronze medal at the 2013 IIHF Women's World Championship.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

At the 2015 Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain, Vafina was part of Russia's gold medal winning team, handing Canada its first-ever loss in FISU women's ice hockey.^[8]

She also competed in one IIHF Women's U18 World Championship with the Russia women's national under-18 ice hockey team, the inaugural event in 2008.^[9]

Career statistics

International career

Year	Team	Event	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2008	Russia U18	U18	5	0	1	1	4
2008	Russia	WW	4	0	0	0	2
2009	Russia	WW	4	0	1	1	2
2010	Russia	Oly	5	1	0	1	2
2011	Russia	WW	6	2	1	3	4
2012	Russia	WW	5	0	0	0	2
2013	Russia	WW	6	3	1	4	4

Awards and honors

• 2015-16 U Sports First Team All-Canadian^[10]

References

1. IIHF – Team Russia Stats – 2010 Olympics
2. IIHF (2011). IIHF Media Guide & Record Book 2012. Fenn/M&S. p. 563. ISBN 978-0-7710-9598-6.
3. "IIHF – Team Russia Stats – 2008 World Championship" (PDF). IIHF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
4. "IIHF – Team Russia Stats – 2009 World Championship" (PDF). IIHF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
5. "IIHF – Team Russia Stats – 2011 World Championship" (PDF). IIHF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
6. "IIHF – Team Russia Stats – 2012 World Championship" (PDF). IIHF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
7. IIHF – Team Russia Stats – 2013 World Championship Archived 3 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
8. "Granada 2015".
9. "IIHF – Team Russia Stats – 2008 World Championship Under-18" (PDF). IIHF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
10. "2015-16 U Sports Women's Hockey Awards and All-Canadians". presto-en.usports.ca. Retrieved 6 May 2021.

External links

• Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
• Aleksandra Vafina at Olympedia (archive)
• Aleksandra Vafina at Olympics.com
• Aleksandra Vafina at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)