Pasi Koskela (born 28 August 1980) is a
Finnish former
speed skater
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. ...
. He was a member of the speed skating national team of Finland for many years, including the
2010 Winter Olympics
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in Vancouver.
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Retrieved on 18 August 2013. After his racing career, Pasi Koskela became head coach of Finland's national team in 2011.
Pasi is the brother of
Pekka Koskela
Pekka Koskela (born 29 November 1982) is a Finnish speed skater, specialising on the sprint distances 500 m and 1000 m. He is the former world record holder on the 1000 m with the time 1:07.00. In December 2001 he set a junior world record on th ...
, who is one of the world's fastest speed skating sprinters. Pasi is also cousin to wrestler
Harri Koskela
Harri Matias Koskela (born 8 October 1965 in Lapua) is a Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Olympics
Koskela competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul where he received the silver medal in Greco-Roman wrest ...
.
References
1980 births
Living people
Finnish male speed skaters
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