Jukka Vastaranta (born 29 March 1984) is a

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professional cyclist from

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. From 2003 to 2006 he rode for the Dutch team but in 2007 he switched to the

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continental team . In 2008 he rode for the

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team Brink-Ten Tusscher, but after a good start had to retire again due to prolonged health problems. After settling back to Finland, in late 2008 he finally found some help for the health problems he had suffered from past several seasons. In 2009, he significantly got better and won all Finnish mountain bike races that he took part in and finished 36th in MTB Marathon World Championships. Jukka started the season 2010 without a team, but had a short contract with , a Greek Continental-level road team, but was in strong form. He finished 4th in MTB Marathon European Championships and took some important victories in Europe. In July, the first MTB XC Olympic Champion

Bart Brentjens Bart Jan-Baptist Marie Brentjens (born 10 October 1968 in Haelen) is a Dutch racing cyclist in mountain biking. Brentjens won a gold medal for mountain biking in the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first to recognize cross-country mountain biking as an ...

contacted Jukka to join his professional team, ''Trek-Brentjens MTB Racing Team''.Vastaranta returns to the dirt
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Major results

Road

;1999 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Criterium,

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;2001 : 1st Overall

Tour de l'Abitibi The ''Tour de l'Abitibi'' is a junior bicycle stage race taking place in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. The race was first held in 1969 and had only Canadian teams. It has since become an international competition part of ...

::1st Stages 3 & 5 : 1st Overall GP Général Patton ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Overall La Coupe du Président de la Ville de Grudziądz ::1st Stages 3 & 5 : 8th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships ;2002 : 1st Overall GP Général Patton ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan ::1st Stages 1 & 2 : 1st Remouchamps–Ferrières–Remouchamps : UCI Junior Road World Championships ::2nd Silver medal blank

Time trial ::7th Road race : 2nd Overall Keizer der Juniores : 3rd Overall UCI Juniors World Cup ;2003 : 1st Overall

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::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 1st

Flèche Ardennaise The Flèche Ardennaise is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in June in the province of Liège, Belgium. Since 2010, the race is organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle ...

: 1st Brussels–Opwijk : 1st Stage 2

Tour des Pyrénées The Tour des Pyrénées was a road bicycle race held annually in France and Spain. It was organized as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 b ...

: 2nd Overall

Volta a Lleida The Volta a Lleida was a road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race held in the Lleida (province), Lleida region of Spain. It was a 2.2 category race on the UCI Europe Tour between 2005 and 2008. List of overall winners {, class="wikitable" , ...

::1st Stages 3 & 5 : 5th

Vlaamse Pijl De Vlaamse Pijl ( en, Flemish Arrow) is a Belgian road bicycle race held annually since 1968. The race starts and ends in Harelbeke. From 2005 until 2012, it was rated as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour, however in 2013 the race was no longe ...

: 5th

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, National Road Championships : 7th

Rund um Düren The Rund um Düren is a cycling road race held in mid-April in Germany. The event, ranked at 1.2 on the UCI European calendar, is contested around the city of Düren Düren (; ripuarian: Düre) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, b ...

: 8th Road race, European Under-23 Road Championships : 8th Overall

Ruban Granitier Breton Tour de Bretagne Cycliste, also known as the Tour de Bretagne trophée des granitiers and formerly known as Ruban Granitier Breton, is an annual early season professional cycling stage race held in late April and early May in Brittany, France. T ...

;2004 : 1st MaillotFinlandia

, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 3

Olympia's Tour The Olympia's Tour is a cycling stage race held in the Netherlands. History A.S.C. Olympia was founded in Amsterdam on 27 November 1898. It ran one-day races but wanted a race through all the Netherlands. The first Olympia's Tour was in 1909, wi ...

: 2nd Overall

Circuit des Mines The Circuit de Lorraine is a multi-stage road bicycle racing event held annually in Lorraine, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competi ...

::1st Stage 3 : 4th

La Côte Picarde La Côte Picarde was a professional cycling race held between 1986 and 2015 in Picardy, France. It was held as part of the UCI Europe Tour from 2005 onwards, in category 1.ncup, meaning it was part of the UCI Under 23 Nations' Cup The UCI Under ...

: 4th

Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers is a road bicycle race held annually near Lillers, a commune in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. The editions 1964-1995 were reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, it is rated 1.2 on the UCI Europe Tour The ...

: 6th Overall

Paris–Corrèze Paris–Corrèze was a road bicycle race held annually in France, usually between a department near Paris and the department of Corrèze. It was created by Laurent Fignon and Max Mamers. It was first held in 2001 and since 2005 it has been organi ...

;2005 : 1st Stage 3

Ster Elektrotoer The ZLM Tour is a cycling race held over five stages, held in the southern Netherlands and Belgium as a 2.Pro race on the UCI ProSeries The UCI ProSeries is the second tier men's elite road cycling tour. It was inaugurated in 2020. The series ...

: 3rd Overall

Tour de Luxembourg The Tour de Luxembourg is an annual stage race in professional road bicycle racing held in Luxembourg. The Tour de Luxembourg is classified as a 2.Pro race, the highest rating below the World Tour, by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the ...

: 9th Overall

UNIQA Classic The Uniqa Classic was a staged cycling race held in Austria. It was created in 1953 and was part of UCI Europe Tour in 2005 as a 2.1 The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body in the sport of bicycle racing, classifies ...

: 9th

Scheldeprijs The Scheldeprijs is a cycling race in Flanders and the Netherlands which starts in Terneuzen, crosses the Scheldt River, and finishes in Schoten. Until 2018 it was held entirely in Belgium. The event, ranked as a 1.HC race on the UCI Europe Tour, ...

;2007 : 8th Overall

Étoile de Bessèges The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a sta ...

Mountain

; UCI Mountain Bike World Championships * 8th, Marathon (2011) * 27th, Cross Country (2010) ; UCI Mountain Bike European Championships * 2nd, Marathon (2011) * 4th, Marathon (2010) * 1st, Cross Country Juniors (2001) ; UCI Mountain Bike Finnish Championships * 1st, Cross Country (2011, 2010, 2009, 2001) * 1st, Marathon (2010, 2009) ; UCI Road Bike World Cup * 1st overall, Juniors (2001) ; UCI Road Bike World Championships * 2nd, Juniors (2002) ; UCI Road Bike Finnish Championships * 1st, TT (2004) ; Miscellaneous * 1st in KitzAlpBike XCO (2011) * 3rd in Dolomiti Superbike (2011) * 1st overall in Zillertal Bike Challenge (2010) * Winner of the 2nd event of Spanish MTB Marathon Cup (2010) * Stage winner in Ster Electro tour (2005) * Second in Tour of Luxemburg (2005)

References

* 1984 births Living people Finnish male cyclists Sportspeople from Tampere Cyclists at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Finland Finnish mountain bikers 20th-century Finnish people 21st-century Finnish people {{Finland-cycling-bio-stub