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Tampereen Isku-Volley
Tampereen Isku-Volley is a volleyball team from Finland. It is based in Tampere. The team was founded in 1911, originally known as Rantaperkiön Isku, the name changed to Tampereen Isku-Volley at the beginning of the 1990s. Achievements * 6 Finland Champion * 8 Finland league silver * 6 Finland league bronze * 3 Finland Cup champion History Isku-Volley is the Finnish volleyball league's oldest team. It has played in the league over thirteen year. The team has participated in over nine hundred matches, the biggest reading of Finnish teams ever. The club has six Finland Championships, eight silver, and six bronze medal. Finland Cup team has won third times. Last Finland league Champion was the 2005-2006 season. Team Season 2008-2009 Setters: * 3. Chris Tamas * 5. Ossi Heino Middle-blockerst: * 2. Anssi Vesanen * 4. Ossi Vesanen * 8. Sauli Sinkkonen * 13. Sauli Silpo Wing-spikers: * 6. Tuomas Tihinen * 14. Joni Mikkonen Opposite: * Ryan Jay Owens Liber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be de ... in the Pirkanmaa Regions of Finland, region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the Tampere urban area, urban area has a population of 341,696; and the metropolitan area, also known as the Tampere sub-region, has a population of 393,941 in an area of . Tampere is the List of urban areas in Finland by population, second-largest urban area and List of Finnish municipalities, third most-populous individual municipality in Finland, after the cities of Helsinki and Espoo, and the most populous Finnish city outside the Greater Helsinki area. Today, Tampere is one of the major urban, econo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapio Kangasniemi
Tapio Kangasniemi (born 7 March 1979, in Jakobstad) is a former professional volleyball player from Finland. He played libero in Finnish volleyball team since 2001. Kangasniemi retired from national team in summer 2008. He works now as a volleyball coach. Career Kangasniemi started his career 9-years old in Kauhavan Wisa. After his junior year, he became top player in the Finland. He started playing in Finland Champion league in Tampereen Isku-Volley. In Isku-Volley, he won two Finland Champions seasons 2002 and 2006, silver medal in season 2003 and bronze medal in season 2005. Media have elected him three times Finland Champion league as best libero in the seasons 2002, 2004 and 2006. In season 2007–2008, Kangasniemi played in Italy A2-league in Isernia team. He was best libero in the league and legavolley chose him to All-Star game against best players in A1-league. After one season in Italy Kangasniemi made contract with Tampereen Isku-Volley Tampereen Isku-Volley is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volleyball Clubs In Finland
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the programme at the Atlanta 1996. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball. The complete set of rules is extensive, but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to three times to return the ball to the other side of the court, but individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively. Typic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
