Toni&Jere increasing speed with inlines!

Salon Viesti Speed Skating club in speed with Mattila brothers:

Jere (9):
10.7.2010 (boys under 15 years), 3rd place in 500m/3000m (Finnish championships)

Toni (16):
4.7.2010 3rd place in 16km race, time 32.56
10.7.2010 8th place in 10k race + 10th place in 500m (Finnish championships)
11.7.2010 4th place in 21km race



And we will get more news from these guys in the future too, stay tuned!

Viesti Speed Skaters goes black&white!

Salon Viesti Speed Skaters will skate on black&white colours in the near future. Each skater will also have the name attached on top of his&her heart!

See more from the image:

Mattila brothers are in Speed!

Jere Mattila

Last weekend was a race in Helsinki/Pirkkola 200m track. Two of Salon Viesti Speed Skaters; Toni and Jere Mattila were on the spot and were in good speed in both distances. Intresting to see where the development will go during the races with both boys during this summer.

Results of the Helsinki race can be found from here:

http://www.luisteluliitto.fi/@Bin/805731/Tulokset_Pirkkola_22toukokuu2010.pdf

Toni Mattila

Inline trainings started in "Rock of Esa"

Les Trois Mousquetaires

Even some snow still on the ground, the first skate trainings done in Esakallio. The official Salon Viesti Speed Skating trainings will start in May, more info from that later on. Keep on moving!

Weissensee 2011?

The Speed Skating club of Salon Viesti together with supporting partners will organize a trip to Weissensee Austria in January 2011.

The aim of the trip is to take part to the speed skating events held there and stay in Austria around one week.

Those skaters who love ice and feel "blue-white" inside can contact the club for futher information.

End of speed skating season on the ice!

Mr Ice in a break

The speed skaters of Salon Viesti ended their natural ice season yesterday in Nummela Finland.

The track in Nummela is 1km long and it is located in the airfield which not in use during winter.

The aim of the skating was just enjoy the ice, speed and the sun which had finally come out and of course to do some distance too, as part of skated 4 hours in "heaven! :)

Viesti Speed Skating team in Kuopio!

Salon Viesti Speed Skating club had 3 skaters in line of fire 20th of Feb in Kuopio. During the day the temperature was between -22 to -30 in C.

Olli "Ice-Man" Sjö was the top gun of the Viesti team in the 150km race and he was 2nd in the race.

Both Esa Kymäläinen and Folkert Wierda were forced to stop the race in the beginning (after 40 - 50km skated)

All results can be found from: http://icemarathon.kuls.fi/fim/files/kuopio2010final.pdf

Finland Ice Marathon 2010 in Kuopio 17 - 20.2!

Kuopio welcomes everyone interested in ice skating to the 27th Finland Ice Marathon 17th - 20th February 2010!

Saturday 20th February is the main event day of Finland Ice Marathon which begins traditionally with a 200 km skating competition at 8am. After a year´s gap we will again see in this long distance race the world´s best marathon skaters as the Finland Ice Marathon 200 km is also the finale of the GP skating tournament organised by the Dutch Ice Skating Federation.

The other race distances are traditionally 100 km, 50 km and 25 km. All the race distances have separate starts for men and women.

More info from the event:

http://icemarathon.kuls.fi/fim/l2

Salon Viesti Speed Skating club will have 3 skaters in the Kuopio event. More news from the skaters coming up, stay tuned!

Mr Ice 2nd in 100km championships!

Mr Olli Sjö from Salon Viesti Speed Skating club took 2nd place in 100km race held in Oravi, Finland. The race was won by Joonatan Pappinen from Kuopio Speed Skating club.
"I open my final "run" 1km before the finish line, but Joonatan was stronger in the final 500m", say Mr Ice.

Top 3 in 100km race:
1) Joonatan Pappinen, Kuls, 3:42:12
2) Olli Sjö, SalVi, 3:42:14
3) Ossi Sippu, Varkaus 3:42:22

Final results coming up later on, stay tuned!

Tour de skate starts in Finland 6.2.2010!

Tour de skate is a series of lake speed skating events held in Finland.

The events are:

6.2.2010, Oravi 100km race (Fin championships)
13.2.2010, Tuusula 60km race
20.2.1010, Kuopio 200km race
6.3.2010, Tuusula 200km race (Fin championships)

More info (in Fin) from the Tour de skate can be found from:

http://www.luisteluliitto.fi/maraton-ja_masterluistelu/tour_de_skate/

Skates of Urho done in cold weather!

Here is the results:

15 laps:

1) Esa Kymäläinen, SalVi 8:11
2) Folkert Wierda, SalVi 8:46
3) Heikki Husu, Urhot 8:53
4) Ville Eskelinen, Urhot 9:41
5) Olavi Lassila, Urhot 10:12
6) Riitta Ynnilä, Urhot 10:50
7) Kaarina Arvo, TuuL 11:13
8) Anna Kassila, Urhot 11:21
9) Päivi Sarmanto, Urhot 11:25

30 laps:

1) Markku Kaarttinen, Urhot 15:49
2) Sauli Maanpää, TuuL 16:06
3) Mika Kortesmaa, Urhot 16:23
4) Timo Hellberg, Urhot 16:24
5) Raimo Karvonen, Somero 16:45
6) Folkert Wierda, SalVi 17:17
7) Tiina Karvonen, Somero 18:00
8) Heikki Husu, Urhot 18:15
9) Ville Eskelinen, Urhot 19:15
10) Riitta Ynnilä, Urhot 20:10
11) Arto Saviranta, Urhot 21:20
12) Ari Pukki, Urhot 21:20
13) Ilkka Lindström, Kisko 21:39
14) Päivi Sarmanto, Urhot 21:53
15) Markku Vilen, Urhot 22:04
16) Terttu Salonen, Urhot 29:37

Skates of Urho 20.1.2010 in Salo!

Salon Viesti Speed Skating team will have a skating event together with "Uskelan Urhot". The event will have 5 000m and 10 000m distances in a 333 m track. There is also 1 000m for the kids.
The event will start at 6:30 pm in the Moisio track.

More info from the event in Finnish here:

Competition invitation for the skates of Urho.

Mr Ice took 2nd place in 30km race!

The national champioship for 30km was held today in Oulunkylä 400m track. Olli "Ice-Man" Sjö took second place to Salon Viesti Speed Skating club after Antero Kotijärvi from Kuopio. Third was Veli-Jussi Koskinen from Jyväskylä. The temperature during the race was around -15 in C.

In the video Iceman training on the ice....

Home track for Viesti Speed Skaters in use!

The sun was shining and the ice was good for speed skating, hope to see this more in the future too...!!!

Black-Blue Viesti Speed Skaters coming up!

The marathon and lake speed skaters of Salon Viesti Speed Skating club will have new suits 2010 and many, many thanks to our club sponsors and partners for making this possible!

The final outlook and the effect to the skating speed will be seen on the ice....

Thanks also to Sebra Sports, see more http://www.sebrasports.com/