In addition to alena Mills, the captain of the Czech national women's ice hockey team, Emma Notting, the captain of the Swedish women's national ice hockey team, also became the flag bearer of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, both from shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Ice Hockey Club.
Emma Notting was born on 22 March 1991 in Önschesvik, Sweden, the son of an ice hockey player who played for Swedish clubs from 1983 to 1991 and represented the Swedish national team in international competitions several times. Under the influence of her father, Emma Notting began playing hockey.
In 2004, Emma Notting began playing for the first season of the local club. In 14 seasons, she won the Swedish Ice Hockey League (SDHL) in 2011-2012, 2015-2016, 2017-2018, 2018-2019 and 2020-2021. During this time, she played in 442 games, scoring 239 goals and 304 assists, scoring 543 points. In the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 seasons, he was twice named Swedish Ice Hockey League Athlete of the Year. He won the Best Striker award twice in the 2015-2016 and 2018-2019 seasons.
Emma Notting has represented Sweden at the 2008 World Championships six times, and she has also competed at the U18 World Championships twice in 2008 and 2009, winning a bronze medal at the 2008-2009 U18 World Championships.
In the final qualifying round of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Notting scored four goals in three matches of the Swedish national team against Slovakia, South Korea and France. In his 12 years with the Swedish national team, he played in 198 games, scoring 74 points with 25 goals and 49 assists.
Notting represented the Swedish national team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, scoring 4 goals, 4 assists and 8 points in 17 games, and Beijing in 2022 is her fourth appearance at the Winter Olympics and serves as the captain of the Swedish national team.
Notting has spent most of his career in Sweden, and in 2021, Notting joined Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Ice Hockey Club to represent Shenzhen Vanke Sunshine in the 2020-2021 Russian Women's Ice Hockey League Finals, contributing 1 assist in 3 games, but the team regrettably finished second. After the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Notting will continue to play with Shenzhen Vanke Sunshine in the second half of the 2021-2022 Russian Women's Ice Hockey League.
Upon learning to be the standard-bearer for the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Alena Mills, the czech national team captain who plays for Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Hockey Club, said: "I don't think I realized it yet. This is a great honor. When I heard the news, I could hardly say anything. I am very pleased to be able to represent all the outstanding athletes who have come to Beijing. I don't know what else to say. As I said, I don't think I've really appreciated that yet. ”