Roope Suomalainen
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Roope Samuel Suomalainen |
| Nationality |
 Finland |
| Born |
6 September 1973 Kotka, Finland |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) |
| Sailing career | |
| Class(es) | Dinghy |
| Club | Kotkan Pursiseura |
Roope Samuel Suomalainen (born September 6, 1973 in Kotka) is a retired Finnish sailor, who specialized in the Laser class.[1] He represented his nation Finland in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has also been training throughout most of his sporting career for Kotka Yacht Club (Finnish: Kotkan Pursiseura) in his native Kotka.[2]
Suomalainen made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed seventeenth in the Laser class with a net grade of 127, surpassing Hungary's Tamas Eszes by a single mark in total.[3][4]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Suomalainen qualified for his second Finnish team, as a 30-year-old, in the Laser class by placing fourteenth and obtaining a berth from the 2003 ISAF World Championships in Cadiz, Spain.[5][6] Unlike his previous Olympics, Suomalainen could not upgrade his feat with a nineteenth-place effort in a fleet of forty-two sailors, recording a net score of 160.[7][8]
References
- ↑ "Roope Suomalainen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- ↑ "Suomalaispurjehtijat testaavat osaamistaan Sydneyn esiolympiakisoissa" [Finnish sailors to test their knowledge of Sydney Olympic Games] (in Finnish). MTV3. 21 September 2004. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Sailing – Men's Laser Class" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 131. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
- ↑ "Roope Suomalainen pettyi suorituksiinsa" [Roope Suomalainen was disappointed with his performance] (in Finnish). MTV3. 29 September 2000. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- ↑ "Roope Suomalainen haistoi tuulet" [Roope Suomalainen sniffed the winds] (in Finnish). MTV3. 20 September 2003. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- ↑ "Maanantain suomalaiset Ateenassa" [Monday: Finns in Athens] (in Finnish). Kaleva. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- ↑ "Sailing: Mixed Laser Class". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "Roope Suomalainen purjehti 19. sijalle" [Roope Suomalainen finished nineteenth] (in Finnish). Kaleva. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 12 November 2014.