Roope Suomalainen

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Roope Suomalainen
Personal information
Full nameRoope Samuel Suomalainen
NationalityFlag of Finland.svg  Finland
Born (1973-09-06) 6 September 1973 (age 49)
Kotka, Finland
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight81 kg (179 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Dinghy
ClubKotkan Pursiseura

Roope Samuel Suomalainen (born 6 September 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]

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References

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