fullname classes show_medals club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title name
roope samuel suomalainen dinghy yes kotkan pursiseura kotka , finland 81 kg lb 0 on 1.80 0 on 6 september 1973 roope suomalainen
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roope suomalainen

roope samuel suomalainen -lrb- born september 6 , 1973 in kotka -rrb- is a retired finnish sailor , who specialized in the laser class .
he represented his nation finland in two editions of the olympic games -lrb- 2000 and 2004 -rrb- , and has also been training throughout most of his sporting career for kotka yacht club -lrb- -rrb- in his native kotka .
suomalainen made his official debut at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney , where he placed seventeenth in the laser class with a net grade of 127 , surpassing hungary 's tamas eszes by a single mark in total .
at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , suomalainen qualified for his second finnish team , as a 30-year-old , in the laser class by placing fourteenth and obtaining a berth from the 2003 isaf world championships in cadiz , spain .
unlike his previous olympics , suomalainen could not upgrade his feat with a nineteenth-place effort in a fleet of forty-two sailors , recording a net score of 160 .
