Matti Juhani Rantanen (born February 20, 1952) is a Finnish accordionist.
Rantanen won the Finnish Youth Accordion Championship four successive times from 1964 to 1967, national championship in 1968, the Scandinavian championship in 1969 and 1970, and was third in the world championship in 1970. [1]
TPS or Turun Palloseura is an ice hockey team and 10-time champion of SM-liiga and 1-time champion of SM-sarja. They play in Turku, Finland, at Gatorade Center. In terms of championships, TPS is the second all-time most successful team in SM-Liiga, right behind Tappara.
Lammi is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Hämeenlinna on 2009-01-01.
Siiri Johanna "Äitee" Rantanen was a Finnish cross-country skier. She competed in the 1952, 1956, and 1960 Olympics and won a medal in each of them: a gold and a bronze in the 3 × 5 km relay in 1956–60 and another bronze in the individual 10 km in 1952; she placed fifth and 15th over 10 km in 1956 and 1960, respectively. She also won five medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
Tampereen Ilves is a Finnish football club based in Tampere. They currently play in the Veikkausliiga, the highest level of professional football in Finland.
Merja Rantanen is a Finnish orienteering competitor. She received a silver medal in the middle distance at the 2008 European Orienteering Championships in Ventspils. She also participated on the Finnish team that achieved a bronze medal in the championship relay.
The 58th Rally Finland, the ninth rally of the 2008 World Rally Championship season took place between July 31 and August 3, 2008. The event was the first rally held after a six-week mid season break. The rally was based in the city of Jyväskylä in the centre of Finland with the special stages held on fast gravel roads in the lake district area of the country. The winner was the reigning world champion Sébastien Loeb, who became only the fourth non Scandinavian driver to win the event in fifty-eight runnings. It was his sixth win of the season and reduced the gap in the championship standings between himself and Finland's Mikko Hirvonen to just one point. Hirvonen finished in second, with Chris Atkinson taking the third podium spot for the Subaru World Rally Team. This would prove to be Subaru’s final podium in the world championship.
Yle Uutiset is the Finnish news production unit of Yle. Yle Uutiset also produces news in Sami, Russian and English. News in the other national language, Swedish, is produced by the unit Svenska Yle.
The 2009 Neste Oil Rally Finland was the 59th running of the Rally Finland and the ninth round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. The rally consisted of 23 special stages and was won by Ford's Mikko Hirvonen. This marked his third victory in a row and his first in his home event. Last year's winner Sébastien Loeb of Citroën finished second and took his first podium since the Rally Argentina back in April. Jari-Matti Latvala beat Dani Sordo to the final podium spot.
Matti Rantanen is a Finnish rally driver from Lammi.
Matti Rantanen may refer to:
The Scarlet Dove is a 1961 Finnish thriller film directed by Matti Kassila. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. It was Tauno Palo's final screen role.
Rantanen is a Finnish surname meaning "small shore". Notable people with the surname include:
The Škoda Fabia S2000 is a Super 2000 rally car built by Škoda Motorsport. It is based upon the Škoda Fabia road car.
Anna-Kaisa Rantanen is a Finnish former football midfielder, who most recently played for Klepp IL of the Norwegian Toppserien.
Mikko Rantanen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward and alternate captain for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round, 10th overall, by the Avalanche in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft and made his NHL debut that year. Rantanen won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2022. He is widely regarded as one of the best players in the NHL.
Finnish Workers' Sports Federation football team was an association football team representing the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation (TUL) in 1921–1950. At the time, the sport in Finland was divided as the leftist TUL was isolated from the right-wing sports movement. In football, the TUL clubs and the Finnish Football Association (SPL) clubs competed in their own championship series and the Finnish national football team was selected of the SPL players only. The TUL football team participated the International Workers' Olympiads in 1925, 1931 and 1937 and the Moscow Spartakiad in 1928.
Rasputin is a 2003 Finnish-language opera in three acts by Einojuhani Rautavaara.
Yrjö Aukusti Rantanen was a Finnish chess player, who was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1981. He was a two-time Finnish chess champion, and won three medals at the Chess Olympiad.
Matti Rantanen was a Finnish chess player, four-time Finnish Chess Championship medalist.
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