Erkki Miinala
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| Full name | Erkki Ilmari Miinala | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 August 1993 Kemi, Finland | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Erkki Ilmari Miinala (born 19 August 1986 in Kemi) is a Finnish goalball player. He began playing at age ten, but did not become serious about the sport until 19. His visual impairment is due to retinitis pigmentosa which is an inherited, degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment. Outside goalball he plays drums in a rock band and works as a transcriber.[1] He was a member of Finland's gold medal-winning men's goalball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[2]
References
- ↑ "MIINALA Erkki". IPC.infostradasports.com. International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- ↑ "Erkki Miinala". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
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Categories:
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Finnish male goalball players
- Paralympic goalball players for Finland
- Paralympic gold medalists for Finland
- Paralympic medalists in goalball
- Goalball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Goalball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Goalball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Sportspeople from Kemi
- European Paralympic medalist stubs
- Finnish sportspeople stubs
- Goalball biography stubs