Tomi Rantamäki

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Tomi Rantamäki Curling
birthday 18th September 1968 (age 51)
Career
nation FinlandFinland Finland
society Hyvinkaa CC
Playing position Skip
Playing hand right
status active
last change: January 18, 2018

Tomi Rantamäki (born September 18, 1968 ) is a Finnish curler .

Career

Rantamäki played for the first time internationally at the Junior World Championship in 1990 as fourth of the Finnish junior team; the team came in tenth and last place. He played his first European championship among adults in 1994, already as a skip for the Finnish team, with which he finished sixth. At the European Championship in 1994 he was ninth.

He only returned to the European Championship in 2009 and was ninth again. In 2010 he took part in the Mixed European Championship for the first time ; the team he skipped came in 15th place. Things went much better at the Mixed European Championships in 2013 , where he finished fourth; In the game for third place, he and his team lost to the Swiss team around Silvana Tirinzoni . The following year he came in fifth at the 2014 European Mixed Championships .

In 2016 he competed at the Mixed Doubles World Championship with Oona Kauste and finished seventh. He took the same place at the Mixed Doubles World Championship 2017 , where he played with Kauste again.

Rantammäki played together with Oona Kauste for Finland in the first mixed doubles competition at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games . After one win and six defeats in the Round Robin , the Finnish team came in eighth and last place. After the positive doping results from Alexander Kruschelnizki and the disqualification of the Olympic Athletes from Russia team , they moved up to seventh place.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Olympic Winter Games 2018 - Teams. In: worldcurling.org. World Curling Federation, accessed January 18, 2018 .
  2. Final Standings - Mixed Doubles. In: olympic.org. World Curling Federation, accessed February 23, 2018 .