Koo-Vee (ice hockey)
Encyclopedia
KOO-VEE is a Finnish
sport club based at Tampere
. It was founded at 1929 and soon it expanded to many different kinds of sports. Full name of the club is KOO-VEE Ry (written normally as Koovee).
Koovee is one of the biggest sport clubs in Finland.
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
sport club based at Tampere
Tampere
Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...
. It was founded at 1929 and soon it expanded to many different kinds of sports. Full name of the club is KOO-VEE Ry (written normally as Koovee).
Koovee is one of the biggest sport clubs in Finland.
Sections of Koovee
- Koovee Football
- Koovee Ice hockeyKOO-VEE (ice hockey)KOOVEE is a Finnish ice hockey team based at Tampere. Full name of the club is KOOVEE Ry. KOOVEE play in Tampere at the Hakametsa 2 Areena which holds about 800, they currently play in the 3rd level in the Finnish hockey leagues....
- Koovee Wrestling
- Koovee Finnish Baseball
- Koovee Petanque
- Koovee Cycling
- Koovee Floorball
- Koovee Orienteering
- Koovee Figure skating
- Koovee Swimming
Achievements
- Koovee Ice-hockey: Finnish championshipSM-liigaThe SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. As of March 2008, it is ranked by the IIHF as the second strongest league in Europe. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice...
in 1968; SMSM-liigaThe SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. As of March 2008, it is ranked by the IIHF as the second strongest league in Europe. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice...
silver in 1959, 1962 and 1964, bronze medal 1960, 1961 and 1977, the Finnish Cup championship in 1968. MestisMestisMestis, , is the second-highest ice hockey league in Finland.The league was established in 2000 to replace the first division. Since 2000, Mestis has been the highest hockey league in Finland that can be reached with playing merits only; the SM-liiga was closed in 2000...
2006-2007 season - Koovee Orienteering: Jukola relayJukola relayThe Jukola Relay is an orienteering relay race held annually in Finland since 1949. The race always takes place on Saturday between 13th and 19 June in different sites around Finland. The northernmost location has been 50 km north from the Arctic Circle...
victory in 1966. In 2002 the club won the SM-point competition. The club representatives have also done well in European championship, Nordic countries championship and in the World Championship. - Koovee Wrestling: The club representative Pertti Ukkola has won Olympic medal, gold in Montreal in 1976, and Marko Asell silver in Atlanta 1996.