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Tuukka Kuru
Tuukka is a Finnish male given name. The origin of the name may be from the Scandinavian names Tore and Tor, but other studies suggest the origin comes from the names ''Thoke'' and ''Thuki''. - Nimipäivä.fi (in Finnish) People named Tuukka include: * (born 1998), Finnish footballer * (born 1981), Finnish basketball player * (1927–2005), Finnish sports shooter * |
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders 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 to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. The majority of the population are Finns, ethnic Finns. The official languages are Finnish language, Finnish and Swedish language, Swedish; 84.1 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. Finland's climate varies from humid continental climate, humid continental in the south to boreal climate, boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with List of lakes of Finland, more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period, last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Language
Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish language, Swedish. In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. Kven language, Kven, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norway, Norwegian counties of Troms and Finnmark by a minority of Finnish descent. Finnish is morphological typology, typologically agglutinative language, agglutinative and uses almost exclusively Suffix, suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, Numeral (linguistics), numerals and verbs are inflection, inflected depending on their role in the Sentence (linguistics), sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tore (given Name)
Tore is a Scandinavian masculine name. It is derived from the Old Norse name ''Þórir'', itself from an older reconstructed form ''Þórvér'', which is composed of ''Þórr'' meaning thunder, and ''vér'' meaning priest or warrior. So Thor's Priest, Thunder Priest, Thor's Warrior, or Thunder Warrior. The most famous person by this name is probably Tore Hund, who killed Olaf II of Norway at the Battle of Stiklestad. Approximately 18,000 people in Norway are named Tore. Notable people named Tore include: * Tore Asplund (1903–1977), Swedish-born American painter * Tore Austad (1935–2025), Norwegian politician, Minister of Education and Church Affairs * Tore Berger (born 1944), Norwegian sprint canoer * Tore Blom (1880–1961), Swedish track and field athlete and Olympian * Tore Brovold (born 1970), Norwegian skeet shooter * Tore Brunborg (born 1960), Norwegian jazz musician, saxophonist and composer * Tore Cervin (born 1950), Swedish footballer * Tore André Dahlum (born 1968) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tor (given Name)
Tor (Þor) is a Nordic masculine given name derived from the name of the Norse god Thor. It may refer to * Tor Ahlsand (born 1931), Norwegian Olympic rower * Tor Albert Ersdal (born 1972), Norwegian Olympic rower * Tor Arneberg (1928–2015), Norwegian Olympic sailor * Tor Arne Andreassen (born 1983), Norwegian association football player * Tor Egil Horn (born 1976), Norwegian football goalkeeper * Tor Egil Kreken (born 1977), Norwegian musician *Tor Endresen (born 1959), Norwegian singer * Tor Røste Fossen (1940–2017), Norwegian football coach * Tor Graves (born 1972), Thai racing driver * Tor Gundersen (1935–2012), Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player * Tor Gustafsson Brookes (born 1997 or 1998), Australian far-right Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ... streamer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion#Europe, subregion of northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It can sometimes also refer to the Scandinavian Peninsula (which excludes Denmark but includes a part of northern Finland). In English usage, Scandinavia is sometimes used as a synonym for Nordic countries. Iceland and the Faroe Islands are sometimes included in Scandinavia for their Ethnolinguistics, ethnolinguistic relations with Sweden, Norway and Denmark. While Finland differs from other Nordic countries in this respect, some authors call it Scandinavian due to its economic and cultural similarities. The geography of the region is varied, from the Norwegian fjords in the west and Scandinavian mountains covering parts of Norway and Sweden, to the low and flat areas of Denmark in the south, as well as archipelagos and lakes in the east. Most of the population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuukka Andberg
Tuukka Andberg (born 1 May 1998) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Ykkösliiga ''Ykkösliiga'' (English language, English: ''"League One"''; ) is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system (after the Veikkausliiga), managed by the Football Association of Finland. The teams in Ykkösliiga also play a pre-s ... club PK-35. veikkausliiga.com, 4 January 2021 References External links * * Living people 1998 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuukka Kotti
Tuukka Kotti (born 18 March 1981) is a Finnish professional basketball player for the Tapiolan Honka. Kotti attended Providence College in the United States, where he played college basketball between 2001 and 2005. He left Finland as a point guard, but gradually turned into a Center (basketball), center during his college career. In 2018, Kotti was named the Korisliiga MVP, Korisliiga Most Valuable Player at age 37, while playing with Helsinki Seagulls. Career statistics National team EuroCup , - , style="text-align:left;", 2013–14 Eurocup Basketball, 2013–14 , style="text-align:left;", Bisons Loimaa , 10 , , 10 , , 26.8 , , .549, , - , , .409 , , 5.1 , , 1.9 , , 1.0 , , 0.4 , , 10.9 , , 10.0 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kotti, Tuukka 1981 births Living people Andrea Costa Imola players Centers (basketball) Crailsheim Merlins players Finnish expatriate basketball people in France Finnish expatriate basketball people in Germany Finnish expatriate bask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuukka Mäkelä (sport Shooter)
Tuukka Tapio Mäkelä (5 September 1927 – 2 August 2005) was a Finnish Shooting sport, sports shooter. He competed in the Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Mixed skeet, skeet event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1927 births 2005 deaths Finnish male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Finland Shooters at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Pori 20th-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuukka Mäkelä
Tuukka Mäkelä (born 24 May 1982) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Val Pusteria Wolves of Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ..., the top tier ice hockey league in Italy. He played for the team previously, during the 2012-2013 season. Career statistics Regular season and playoffs International References External links * Living people HPK players 1982 births Boston Bruins draft picks Finnish ice hockey defencemen 21st-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-icehockey-defenceman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuukka Mäntylä
Tuukka Matias Mäntylä (born 25 May 1981) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the 5th round (153rd overall) of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. Playing career Mäntylä came through the youth ranks of Tampere Tappara and made his debut in Finland's top-tier Liiga in the course of the 1999–2000 season. He won the Finnish national championship with Tappara in 2003 and subsequently parted ways with the team to take his game to Sweden, where he joined Luleå HF of the Swedish Elite League (SHL). He enjoyed a two-year stint there, before returning to Tappara. After another two years at his hometown team, Mäntylä embarked on a second SHL tenure, playing for Frölunda HC from 2007 to 2009. On 7 April 2009 he left Frölunda and signed a contract to return to Tappara. In late October 2009, playing with Tampere Tappara, Mäntylä checked Helsinki IFK defenceman Mikko Kurvinen from behind into the boards, resulting in an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuukka Pulliainen
Tuukka Pulliainen (born 25 August 1984) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward who played for TPS and HPK in the Liiga. He also had periods abroad in Slovakia and Germany. Pulliainen ended his active career in 2017 after five consecutive seasons with Finnish second-tier team TuTo. He was drafted 248th overall in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles. The Kings compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. .... Career statistics Regular season and playoffs International References External links * 1984 births Finnish ice hockey centres HC '05 Banská Bystrica players HC TPS players HPK players Jokipojat players Lausitzer Füchse players Living people Los Angeles Kings draft picks TuTo players Ice hockey people from Turku Finnish expatriate ice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuukka Rask
Tuukka Mikael Rask (born 10 March 1987) is a Finns, Finnish former professional ice hockey Goaltender (ice hockey), goaltender. Rask was drafted 21st overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs before being traded to the Boston Bruins in 2006, where he played his entire 15 season National Hockey League, NHL career. Rask was consistently successful during his tenure with the Bruins. After winning the Stanley Cup as the backup with the Bruins in 2011, he led the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Finals on two occasions in 2013 Stanley Cup Finals, 2013 and 2019 Stanley Cup Finals, 2019. He also won the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goaltender during the 2013–14 NHL season, 2013–14 season, and was a finalist for the 2019–20 award. He also won the William M. Jennings Trophy along with goaltender Jaroslav Halák in the 2019–20 NHL season, 2019–20 season. Rask is also a two-time NHL All-Star team member. Internationally, he led Finland men's national ice hockey te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
