Tomi Rantamäki (born 18 September 1968) is a
Finnish curler from
Espoo
Espoo (, ; ) is a city in Finland. It is located to the west of the capital, Helsinki, in southern Uusimaa. The population is approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland. Espoo is part of the Helsi ...
.
He competed in the
2018 Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympics (), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (; ) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, South Ko ...
in the
mixed doubles competition. He and partner
Oona Kauste placed 7th. He has served as the coach of the Chinese Mixed Doubles
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take t ...
team since 2021.
Career
Athlete
Finished seventh in the mixed doubles at the
PyeongChang
Pyeongchang ( , ; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seo ...
2018 Winter Olympic. Four consecutive World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances (2016–19), finishing a career-best seventh in his first two championships. Competed four European Championships from 1992 to 2013.
Coach
Led the Finnish men to a fourth-place finish at the 2015 World Championship.
Finished ninth with the Chinese women's team at the 2021 World Mixed Doubles Championship.
Led the Chinese Mixed Doubles team to the ninth-place finish at the 2022 Winter Olympic.
He coached the Estonian women's team at the
2024 World Women's Curling Championship.
Personal life
Outside of coaching, Rantamäki works as a management consultant.
References
External links
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1968 births
Living people
Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Finnish male curlers
Olympic curlers for Finland
21st-century Finnish people
Finnish curling coaches
People from Ähtäri
Sportspeople from Espoo
20th-century Finnish sportsmen
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