Kalle Kiiskinen (born 6 September 1975 in

Hyvinkää Hyvinkää (; sv, Hyvinge, ) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Uusimaa region, approximately north of the capital Helsinki. The city was chartered in 1960. The population of Hyvinkää is (). Its neighboring municipal ...

) is a

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curler. In Juniors, Kiiskinen played for Perttu Piilo and won a silver medal as his third at the 1997

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. Kiiskinen then joined up with Uusipaavalniemi, playing in his first

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in 2002. He has played both second and third for Uusipaavalniemi. While never winning a medal at the worlds, at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

, Kiiskinen was a member of the Finnish team (skipped by Uusipaavalniemi) who won a silver medal. After parting ways with Uusipaavalniemi, Kalle was the skip of the Finnish team in the 2007 European Curling Championships

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