Jari Risku

Jari Risku is a Finnish ice hockey coach, currently serving as head coach of HPK Kiekkonaiset in the Naisten Liiga. He had a brief career as a professional ice hockey defenceman with Jokerit during 1984 to 1987, appearing in a total of 41 SM-liiga games across three seasons.

Coaching career

Risku most recently served as head coach of the Austria women's national [ice hockey team|Austrian national team] for the 2022 [IIHF Women's World Championship Division I|2022 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I Group A] and was previously head coach of KMH Budapest in the European Women's Hockey League during the 2018–19 season. He was the first head coach of Team Kuortane from the team's creation in 2010 until 2018 – winning the Hannu Saintula Award in the Naisten Liiga season|2017–18 season] – and coached the Finnish national under-18 team during 2014 to 2018. An Olympic medalist as assistant coach of the Finnish national team that played in the Ice hockey at the [2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament|women's ice hockey tournament] at the 2010 Winter Olympics, he also led the Finnish team to a silver medal as head coach for the Ice hockey at the [2011 Winter Universiade#Women|women's ice hockey tournament] at the 2011 Winter Universiade.