| Birth Date: | 24 January 1975 |
| Birth Place: | Leppävirta, Finland |
| Height Cm: | 165 |
| Weight Kg: | 63 |
| Position: | Forward |
| Shoots: | Left |
| Played For: | Imatran Ketterä KalPa Kuopio Keravan Shakers Espoo Blues IHK Helsinki SKIF Nizhny Novgorod HPK Hämeenlinna |
| Sex: | f |
| Ntl Team: | FIN |
| Career Start: | 1991 |
| Career End: | 2010 |
Katariina Johanna "Kati" Kovalainen (born 24 January 1975) is a Finnish retired ice hockey player and former member of the Finnish national ice hockey team. She represented Finland in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, at nine IIHF Women's World Championships, and at two IIHF European Women Championships.[1]
Her club career spanned nineteen seasons and was played in the Finnish Naisten SM-sarja with the Imatran Ketterä, Kalevan Pallo Naiset, the Keravan Shakers, the Espoo Blues Naiset, and HPK Kiekkonaiset; and in the Russian Women's Hockey League with SKIF Nizhny Novgorod.