Pekka Saarelainen (curler)

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Pekka Saarelainen
 
Born (1967-03-17) 17 March 1967 (age 56)
Team
Curling clubHyvinkää CC
Career
Member AssociationFlag of Finland.svg  Finland
World Championship
appearances
1 (2001)
European Championship
appearances
4 (1993, 1994, 2000, 2001)
Olympic
appearances
1 (2002)
Medal record
Curling
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2000 Oberstdorf
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2001 Vierumäki
Finnish Men's Championship [1]
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1993
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2001
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1999
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2004

Pekka Juhani Saarelainen (born 17 March 1967 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish male curler. [2]

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He is a European curling champion (2000) and competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics where the Finnish men's curling team placed fifth.

He started curling in 1985 at the age of 18.

Teams

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateCoachEvents
1992–93 Jari Laukkanen Pekka SaarelainenMarko Latvala Tommi Valvelainen FMCC 1993 Gold medal icon.svg
1993–94Jari Laukkanen Petri Tsutsunen Pekka SaarelainenMarko LatvalaTommi Valvelainen ECC 1993 (7th)
1994–95 Tomi Rantamäki Jussi Uusipaavalniemi Jussi Heinonsalo Markku Henttonen Pekka Saarelaine Anders Thidholm ECC 1994 (9th)
1998–99Pekka Saarelainen ? ? ?FMCC 1999 Silver medal icon.svg
1999–00Pekka Saarelainen ? ? ?FMCC 2000 (4th)
2000–01 Markku Uusipaavalniemi Wille Mäkelä Tommi Häti Jari LaukkanenPekka Saarelainen ECC 2000 Gold medal icon.svg
FMCC 2001 Gold medal icon.svg
WCC 2001 (5th)
2001–02Markku UusipaavalniemiWille MäkeläTommi HätiJari LaukkanenPekka Saarelainen Ken Armstrong (ECC) ECC 2001 Bronze medal icon.svg
FMCC 2002 Gold medal icon.svg
OG 2002 (5th)
2003–04Wille MäkeläPekka Saarelainen ? ?FMCC 2004 Silver medal icon.svg
2004–05Wille MäkeläJari LaukkanenPekka SaarelainenTommi HätiRiku RaunioFMCC 2005 (5th)

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