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Pekka Saarelainen (curler)
Pekka Juhani Saarelainen (born 17 March 1967 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish male curler. He is a and competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ... where the Finnish men's curling team placed fifth. He started curling in 1985 at the age of 18. Teams References External links * Living people 1967 births Sportspeople from Helsinki Finnish male curlers Olympic curlers for Finland Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics European curling champions Finnish curling champions {{Finland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The Helsinki urban area, city's urban area has a population of , making it by far the List of urban areas in Finland by population, most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has History of Helsinki, close historical ties with these three cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa, and Kauniainen (and surrounding commuter towns, including the eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Thidholm
Per Anders "Anton" Thidholm (born 4 April 1954 in Härnösand) is a Swedish curler (look for "Thidholm, Anders") and curling coach, a two-time (, ) and a 1981 Swedish men's curling champion. He participated in the demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics, when the Swedish team finished at fifth place. In 1978 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame Swedish Curling Hall of Fame A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or Wiktionary:fame, fame in their field. In some cases, these .... Teams Record as a coach of national teams References External links * Living people 1954 births Sportspeople from Härnösand Swedish male curlers Swedish curling champions Curlers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Sweden Swedish curling coaches 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Curlers For Finland
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Finnish Male Curlers
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. It may also refer to: *Finnish language * Suomi (surname) * Suomi, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Suomi College, in Hancock, Michigan, now referred to as Finlandia University * Suomi Island, Western ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportspeople From Helsinki
An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-developed physiques obtained by extensive physical training and strict exercise accompanied by a strict dietary regimen. Definitions The word "athlete" is a romanization of the el, άθλητὴς, ''athlētēs'', one who participates in a contest; from ἄθλος, ''áthlos'' or ἄθλον, ''áthlon'', a contest or feat. The primary definition of "sportsman" according to Webster's ''Third Unabridged Dictionary'' (1960) is, "a person who is active in sports: as (a): one who engages in the sports of the field and especially in hunting or fishing." Physiology Athletes involved in isotonic exercises have an increased mean left ventricular end-diastolic volume and are less likely to be depressed. Due to their strenuous physical activities, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Births
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones). ** Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'', in the UK. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps, USMC and Army of the Republic of Vietnam, ARVN troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 14 – The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. * January 15 ** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus''. ** American footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Ken Armstrong (curler)
Ken Armstrong may refer to: * Ken Armstrong (Australian footballer) (1936–2009), Australian rules football player and coach for Perth and later commentator * Ken Armstrong (diver) (born 1953), Canadian Olympic diver * Ken Armstrong (footballer, born 1924) (1924–1984), Chelsea F.C. footballer, and English and New Zealand dual-international * Ken Armstrong (footballer, born 1959), English-born footballer who played with among others Kilmarnock F.C. and Birmingham City F.C. * Ken Armstrong (journalist) Ken Armstrong is a senior investigative reporter at ProPublica. He has worked at The Marshall Project, the ''Chicago Tribune'', ''The Seattle Times'', the ''Newport News Daily Press'', and the '' Anchorage Times''. He was a 2001 Nieman Fellow at H ..., American journalist * Ken Armstrong (motorcyclist), Grand Prix motorcycle racer from Great Britain {{hndis, Armstrong, Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommi Häti
Tommi Juhani Häti (born April 11, 1971 in Helsinki) is a Finnish male curler. He is a and a bronze medallist. He competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ... where the Finnish men's curling team placed fifth. He started curling in 1987 at the age of 17. Teams References External links * Living people 1971 births Sportspeople from Helsinki Finnish male curlers Olympic curlers of Finland Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics European curling champions Finnish curling champions {{Finland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wille Mäkelä
Wille Mäkelä (born 2 March 1974 in Hyvinkää) is a Finnish curler and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino."Torino 2006 – Results, Curling" – ''cbc.ca'' (Retrieved on March 21, 2008) He has obtained two bronze medals in the , and won a gold medal at the 2000 European Curling Championships
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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] |
