Markku Uusipaavalniemi

Markku Uusipaavalniemi
Full name	Markku Juhani Uusipaavalniemi
birthday	November 23, 1966
place of birth	Karkkila
Career
nation	Finland
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 2 × Mixed European Championship medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2006 Turin  World Curling Championships bronze 1998 Kamloops bronze 2000 Glasgow  European Curling Championships bronze 1999 Chamonix gold 2000 Oberstdorf bronze 2001 Vierumäki Mixed European Curling Championship gold 2005 Andorra
last change: February 12, 2010

Markku Juhani Uusipaavalniemi (born November 23, 1966 in Karkkila ) is a Finnish curler and politician .

His greatest success so far is winning the gold medal at the 2000 European Championship in Oberstdorf . In addition, he won two bronze medals at world championships (1998 in Kamloops and 2000 in Glasgow ) and two bronze medals at European championships (1999 in Chamonix and 2001 in Vierumäki ).

In 2005 Uusipaavalniemi won the first mixed European championship in Andorra , together with Kirsi Nykänen , Teemu Salo and Tiina Kautonen . At the 2006 Winter Olympics , he won the silver medal.

At the 2006 Curling Continental Cup he was named best player.

His nickname is "U-15" or "M-15", where fifteen is the number of letters in his last name. He lives in Hyvinkää , works part-time as a mathematician and can complete a Rubik's cube within half a minute .

In March 2007 Uusipaavalniemi was elected as a member of the Finnish Parliament . He was initially a member of the Center Party and joined the Basic Finns Party (also known as True Finns ) in 2010 and was a member of the Basic Finns faction in parliament from until April 2011.

Web links

Commons : Markku Uusipaavalniemi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Markku Uusipaavalniemi on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Portrait on the side of the Finnish Parliament