Koovee is a

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sport club based in

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. It was founded at 1929 and soon expanded to many different kinds of sports. The full name of the club used to be ''Tampereen Kilpa-Veljet Ry (TK-V)'', but it was first changed to KOO-VEE ry and in 2010 to the form Koovee Ry. Koovee is one of the biggest sport clubs in Finland.

Sections of Koovee

* Koovee Football * Koovee Ice hockey * Koovee Wrestling * Koovee Finnish Baseball * Koovee Petanque * Koovee Cycling * Koovee Floorball ** Women's team play in highest tier of Finnish floorball,

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* Koovee Orienteering * Koovee Figure skating * Koovee Swimming * Koovee Rollers

Achievements

*Koovee Ice-hockey:

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in 1968; SM silver in 1959, 1962 and 1964, bronze medal 1960, 1961 and 1977, the Finnish Cup championship in 1968.

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2006–2007 season *Koovee Orienteering: Jukola relay victory in 1966, 2016 and 2018. In 2002 the club won the SM-point competition. The club representatives have also done well in European championship, Nordic countries championship and in the World Championship. Well-known competitors from Finland that represent or have represented the club include

Liisa Anttila Liisa Anttila (born 30 September 1974) is a Finnish orienteering and ski-orienteering champion. Orienteering Anttila won a gold medal in the ''relay event'' at the 2001 World Orienteering Championships in Tampere with the Finnish team.

, Paula Haapakoski,

Marika Hara Marika Hara (born 2 September 1986) is a Finnish mountain bike orienteering competitor and world champion. At the 2008 World MTB Orienteering Championships in Ostróda, she won a silver medal in the long distance, and a gold medal i ...

Anja Meldo Anja Meldo (born 1945) is a Finnish orienteering competitor. She received a silver medal in the ''relay'' event at the 1966 World Orienteering Championships in Fiskars together with Pirjo Ruotsalainen and Raila Hovi. See also * Finnish orien ...

and Merja Rantanen.

Daniel Hubmann Daniel Hubmann (born 16 April 1983 in Eschlikon, Thurgau) is a Swiss orienteering competitor, world champion in all three individual disciplines and multiple winner of the overall Orienteering World Cup. He is the brother of Martin Hubmann. ...

anchored the Koovee team at Jukola in 2016 and 2018. *Koovee Wrestling: The club representative Pertti Ukkola has won Olympic medal, gold in Montreal in 1976, and

Marko Asell Marko Asell (born 8 May 1970 in Ylöjärvi) is a Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling. He was also a politician and member of Finnish Parliament in 2007–2011. Olympics Asell competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in A ...

silver in Atlanta 1996. *Koovee Rollers: Finnish

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championship in 2011.