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Markku Uusipaavalniemi
Markku Uusipaavalniemi (born 23 November 1966 in Karkkila) is a Finnish curler and former politician. Curling career Uusipaavalniemi was the skip of Team Finland for the first time in the mid-1990s. Most (but not all) of Finland's curling medals have been achieved with Uusipaavalniemi as skip. Uusipaavalniemi's team won the European championship in 2000. He is also a two-time World Curling Championships bronze medalist (1998 and 2000) and two-time European Curling Championships bronze medalist (1999 and 2001). Uusipaavalniemi's Finland team disappointingly finished fifth at the 2002 Olympic tournament. In 2004, he and his somewhat altered Finland line-up pulled off the daunting task of securing qualification for the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championships from the 'B' competition at the European championships, where they languished following the country's relegation the previous season. To do this, they had to win the competition outright, and then overcome Russia in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karkkila
Karkkila (; sv, Högfors) is a town and a municipality of Finland. Neighboring municipalities are Lohja, Loppi, Tammela and Vihti. Geography Karkkila is located in the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of () and it covers an area of of which is inland water (). The population density is (). The municipality is unilingually Finnish. History Originally, Karkkila was a village in the municipality of Pyhäjärvi. In the 14th century, the Pyhäjärvi area belonged to the border area of the parishes of Janakkala and Lohja. In 1507, the Pyhäjärvi area became part of the Vihti parish, which was separated from the Lohja parish. Pyhäjärvi became the chapel congregation of the Vihti parish in 1654. The place was originally known as ''Pahajärvi'' ("bad lake"), but the name became established as ''Pyhäjärvi'' ("holy lake") in the late 17th or 18th century. It was decided to form Pyhäjärvi as an independent parish by a decision of the Imperial Senate in 1861, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 European Mixed Curling Championship
The inaugural 2005 European Mixed Curling Championship was held from October 18 to 22, 2005 at the Canillo Ice Arena in Canillo, Andorra. Finland, skipped by Markku Uusipaavalniemi Markku Uusipaavalniemi (born 23 November 1966 in Karkkila) is a Finnish curler and former politician. Curling career Uusipaavalniemi was the skip of Team Finland for the first time in the mid-1990s. Most (but not all) of Finland's curling med ..., won its first title, defeating Sweden in the final. Teams The teams are as follows: Round Robin In every group: two best teams to playoffs. Group A : Teams to playoffs Group B : Teams to playoffs Group C : Teams to playoffs Group D : Team to playoffs : Teams to tie-break for 2nd place Tie-break Playoffs Quarterfinals Semifinals Bronze medal game Final Final standings References 2005 in curling 2005 in Andorran sport European Mixed Curling Championship International curling competitions hosted by Andorra October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is dominated by a maritime climate with narrow temperature differences between seasons. The 60% smaller island of Ireland is to the west—these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands and named substantial rocks, form the British Isles archipelago. Connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a landbridge now known as Doggerland, Great Britain has been inhabited by modern humans for around 30,000 years. In 2011, it had a population of about , making it the world's third-most-populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The term "Great Britain" is often used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales, including their component adjoining islands. Great Britain and Northern Ireland now constitute the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andorra
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Tiina Kautonen
Tiina is an Estonian and Finnish feminine given name. People named Tiina include: *Tiina Ala-aho (born 19??), Finnish Paralympic track and field athlete *Tiina Benno (born 1961), Estonian politician *Tiina Intelmann (born 1963), Estonian diplomat *Tiina Kaalep (born 1964), Estonian journalist, broadcast and media manager *Tiina Kangro (born 1961), Estonian journalist and politician *Tiina Kankaanpää (born 1976), Finnish discus thrower * Tiina Kapper (1895–1947), Estonian dancer and dance pedagogue *Tiina Lillak (born 1961), Finnish javelin thrower *Tiina Lokk (born 1955), Estonian filmmaker, film teacher and politician *Tiina Lymi (born 1971), Finnish actress, director, screenwriter and author *Tiina Mälberg (born 1970), Estonian actress *Tiina Nieminen (born 1979), Finnish racing cyclist *Tiina Nunnally (born 1952), American author and translator *Tiina Oraste (born 1962), Estonian politician *Tiina Puumalainen (born 1966), Finnish theatre director and a playwright *Tiina Ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teemu Salo
Teemu Salo (born 11 February 1974) is a Finnish curler from Hyvinkää. He has played lead position for Markku Uusipaavalniemi since 2002. Salo won a silver medal as a member of Uusipaavaliemi's team at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He won a gold medal at the 2005 European Mixed Curling Championship playing second for Uusipaavalniemi. In 2009, he played for Kalle Kiiskinen at the World Curling Championships The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and mixed doubles championships, as well as men's a .... Teams References External links * 1974 births People from Hyvinkää Finnish male curlers Living people Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers of Finland Olympic silver medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in curling Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Continental Cup of Curling participa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsi Nykänen
Kirsi is a Finnish female given name. Its nameday is celebrated on 24 July. It began to be used in the 1940s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. As of 2013 there are 23,000 women with this name in Finland. Origin and variants The name Kirsi originated as a short form of Kristiina, Finnish version of Christina or Kirsikka which means ''cherry'' in Finnish. It also means ''frost'' in Finnish. Notable people Notable people with this name include: * Kirsi Ahonen (born 1976), Finnish javelin thrower * Kirsi Boström (born 1968), Finnish orienteer *Kirsi Hänninen (born 1976), Finnish ice hockey player *Kirsi Heikkinen (born 1978), Finnish football referee * Kirsi Helen (born 1982), Finnish cross-country skier *Kirsi Kunnas (1924 - 2021), Finnish poet *Kirsi Lampinen (born 1972), Finnish tennis player *Kirsi Mykkänen (born 1978), Finnish sprinter *Kirsi Ojansuu (born 1963), Finnish politician *Kirsi Peltonen, Finnish mathematician *Kirsi Perälä (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Ferbey
Randy S. Ferbey (born May 30, 1959) is a Canadian retired curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion. He currently coaches the Rachel Homan women's team. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Ferbey notably popularized the system of having the skip throw third rocks, when he skipped the team nicknamed "the Ferbey Four", a team with which he won four Briers (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005) and narrowly missed winning the 2004 final after giving up a 7–3 lead to Mark Dacey. Others teams in both men's and women's curling have adopted the system of not having the skip throw last stones, such as the Margaretha Sigfridsson rink, who would win winning an Olympic Silver and numerous World silvers and Europeans golds by skipping while throwing lead stones, and Jim Cotter throwing last rocks for John Morris who would together reach the finals of both 2014 Olympic Curling Trials and 2014 Brier. The Ferbey Four also popularized the " number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship
The 2005 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from April 2–10, 2005 at the new Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, British Columbia. The tournament was the first since the 1988 event that was held separately from the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship (held in Paisley, Scotland in March 2005). The winner was Randy Ferbey and his team from Canada. Ferbey won his fourth world championship, the rest of his team won their third. As a country, it was Canada's 29th World Championship. Scotland won silver, and Germany bronze. For the first time ever, the World championships used the page playoff system where the top four teams with the best records at the end of round-robin play meet in the playoff rounds. Teams One reason for the separation of the men's and women's tournaments was to allow for an expansion from 10 to 12 teams. This expansion was deemed appropriate because more countries ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markku Uusipaavalniemi At Oulunkylä Curling Hall March 02 2006
Markku is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Markku Alén (born 1951), Finnish former rally and race car driver *Markku Aro (born 1950), Finnish singer who performed on Eurovision contest in 1971 * Markku Huhtamo (born 1946), Finnish actor * Markku Into (born 1945), legend of Finnish poetry, member in Finnish 1960s underground movement of Turku *Markku Kanerva (born 1964), Finnish football manager and former player * Markku Kivinen (born 1951), professor of sociology and a director of the Aleksanteri Institute * Markku Komonen (born 1945), Finnish architect *Markku Koski (born 1981), professional snowboarder from Sievi, Finland *Markku Kukkoaho (born 1946), Finnish sprinter * Markku Kyllönen (born 1962), retired professional ice hockey player *Markku Lehmuskallio (born 1938), Finnish film director, cinematographer and screenwriter *Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, Finnish baroque cellist and viol player *Markku Niinimäki, Finnish Paralympian athlete competing mainly in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
