Enonkosken Pyrintö is a
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
club from
Enonkoski
Enonkoski () is a municipality of Finland. It is encircled by the city of Savonlinna in the Southern Savonia region. It is the smallest municipality in Southern Savonia in terms of population.
History
Enonkoski was founded in 1882. Before that it ...
,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. The men's team of Pyrintö is playing in the second highest tier of Finnish volleyball, Southern group of ''1-sarja''. Team's coach is Bulgarian Todor Marinov.
Pyrintö was founded in 1919. Formerly it was a multi-sports club. The most famous and successful athlete of the club is runner
Antti Loikkanen
Antti Olavi Loikkanen (born 15 April 1955 in Enonkoski, Etelä-Savo) is a Finnish former middle-distance and endurance runner. Loikkanen was one of Finland's most successful 800 meter and 1500 meter runners in the beginning of the 1980s. Hi ...
.
Current squad
*Mika Nenonen
*Petri Siitonen
*Jussi Lautiainen
*Antti Pölönen
*Mika Kettunen
*Eetu Pennanen
*Kalle Heikkinen
*Juuso Paananen
*Teemu Saarinen
*Markus Tammaru
In Sprint 2010
Saimaa Volley
Saimaa ( , ; sv, Saimen) is a lake located in the Finnish Lakeland area in southeastern Finland. At approximately , it is the largest lake in Finland, and the fourth largest natural freshwater lake in Europe.
The name Saimaa likely comes from a ...
players Kirill Borichev and Markus Väisänen play also for EnPy.
External links
Official homepage
Finnish volleyball clubs
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