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Jayna Hefford

1977 - Today

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Jayna Hefford (born May 14, 1977) is a Canadian retired ice hockey player and current Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations for the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). Hefford got her start in the sport of ringette but soon moved into ice hockey. During her hockey career, she won multiple medals at the Winter Olympics and IIHF World Women's Championships as well as titles in the National Women's Hockey League and Canadian Women's Hockey League. She helped Canada win four-straight Olympic gold medals from 2002 to 2014 and famously scored the gold medal-winning goal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jayna Hefford is the 18,383rd most popular politician (up from 18,819th in 2019), the 905th most popular biography from Canada (up from 1,066th in 2019) and the 75th most popular Canadian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jayna Hefford ranks 18,383 out of 19,576Before her are Vicente Zeballos, Nasir Jung, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Stojna Vangelovska, Jerry Moran, and Kristiina Ojuland. After her are George W. Norris, Savitri Jindal, Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, Jack Guy Lafontant, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Daniel Günther.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Jayna Hefford ranks 505Before her are Rimantas Kaukėnas, Michelle O'Neill, Luca Attanasio, Laura Howard, André Sá, and Yoji Sakai. After her are Ingrid Visser, Misaki Ito, Ryuji Sato, Denise Ho, Ana Johnsson, and Carlos Bonet.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Jayna Hefford ranks 906 out of 1,622Before her are Daniel Cudmore (1981), Jessica Lucas (1985), Sylvie Fréchette (1967), Tracy Spiridakos (1988), Nickeil Alexander-Walker (1998), and Isabelle Gélinas (1963). After her are Tommy Gorman (1886), Sara Seager (1971), Dave Foley (1963), Dale Mitchell (1958), Emily St. John Mandel (1979), and Rachel Blanchard (1976).

Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Jayna Hefford ranks 75Before her are S. I. Hayakawa (1906), Hazel McCallion (1921), Joseph Albert Sullivan (1901), Nellie McClung (1873), Rob Ford (1969), and Edward Schreyer (1935). After her are Mélanie Joly (1979), François-Philippe Champagne (1970), Kathleen Wynne (1953), André Boisclair (1966), Nicolas Gill (1972), and Peter MacKay (1965).