Porin Pesäkarhut are a pesäpallo club based in

Pori ) , website www.pori.fi Pori (; sv, Björneborg ) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River, west of Tampere, north of Turku and north-w ...

, Finland. They currently only have a women's team which competes in the

Superpesis The Superpesis, known as SM-sarja from 1955 to 1989, is the top professional pesäpallo league in Finland. It was created in 1990 to replace the SM-sarja which was fundamentally an amateur league. The Superpesis is directly overseen by the Finnis ...

. The club was established in 1985. They play in the Porin pesäpallostadion. They have won the Finnish Championship three times, in 2002, in 2021 and in 2023.

Club achievements

During its history, the club has won 18 medals in the women's

. Three of these are gold (2002, 2021 and 2023), six are silver (2005, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2019) and ten are bronze (2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018) and 2020). Pesäkarhut have won the Halli-SM, a winter pesäpallo tournament, in 2002, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Award winning players

Etenijäkuningatar: * Carita Toiviainen (2007) * Kaisa Kärkkäinen (2010) * Milla Lindström (2013, 2017) * Emilia Itävalo (2021) Lyöjäkuningatar: * Heidi Kuusisto (2010) * Hanna Itävalo (2013) * Susanna Puisto (2020, 2021) Kärkilyöntikuningatar: * Hanna Itävalo (2009, 2010) * Kaisa Kärkkäinen (2011) * Carita Toiviainen (2013, 2015) Playoffs' most valuable player: *

Tiia Peltonen Tiia Peltonen (born 8 June 1995) is a Finnish footballer who plays as a defender for Fortuna Hjørring in the Danish Women's League The Danish Women's League ( da, Danmarksturneringens Kvindeliga, Kvinde-DM Liga or Kvindeligaen) is a semi-pr ...

(2021) "Jokeri" of the year: *

Johanna Nieminen Johanna is a feminine name, a variant form of Joanna that originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, including an -h- by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The original Greek form ''Iōanna'' lacks a medial /h/ because in Greek /h/ c ...

(2002) *

Tanja Vehniäinen Tanja ( sr, Тања) is a feminine given name. It may refer to: Mononyms *''Tanja'' (born 1983), Russian-Estonian singer, also known as Tanja Mihhailova Given name * Tanja Andrejeva (born 1978), Macedonian handball player *Tanja Bogosavljevi� ...

(2005) * Heidi Kuusisto (2007, 2008, 2010) "Lukkari" of the year: *

Kaisa Salmela Kaisa may refer to: *Kaisa (name), Finnish and Estonian feminine given name *Kaisa, Estonia, village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia *Kaisa (billiards), a cue sport mostly played in Finland *Kaisa Group Holdings Limited, a Chinese propert ...

(2012) Baseballer of the year: *

Jonna Äijälä Jonna may refer to: * Jonna Adlerteg (born 1995), Swedish gymnast *Jonna Andersson (born 1993), Swedish football defender *Jonna Fitzgerald, American beauty pageant titleholder and musical entertainer *Jonna Doolittle Hoppes, American author whose ...

(2002) * Kaisa Kärkkäinen (2010) * Carita Toiviainen (2013) *

Susanne Ojaniemi Susanne may refer to: *Susanne (given name), a feminine given name (including a list of people with the name) *, later USS ''SP-411'', a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 *, the proposed name and designation for a vess ...

(2017) * Emilia Itävalo (2019) Kultainen maila- award: * Hanna Itävalo (2009) *

(2017) Kultainen räpylä- award: *

(2017) * Emilia Itävalo (2019)

Notes

References

{{reflist Pesäpallo Sport in Pori 1985 establishments in Finland Women's sports clubs and teams in Finland Sports clubs and teams in Satakunta