Q:Pasi Nurminen (born December 17 1975 in Lahti Finland) is a Finnish retired ice hockey goaltender. He was drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers as their sixth-round pick #189 overall in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft.Nurminen started his playing career with Reipas Lahti in Finland and later moved on to Kettera Imatra and Pelicans. In 1998 he moved to HPK and then to Jokerit a year later where he won the Urpo Ylonen trophy as best goaltender in the SM-liiga. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete