Comenius 2007

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Boys’ sports in Finnish schools

- Basketball
- Football
- Floorball
- Volleyball
- Icehockey
- Skiing
- Badminton
- Handball
- Swimming
- Artistic Gymnastics
- Baseball
- School “olympics”
- Dance
- Muscle condition test and running test

We play ball games a lot. Swimming, skiing and dancing are  boring , that is what we think. Our favourite sports are floorball, basketball, baseball, icehockey. P.E lessons are 1,5h long or less. When we have lessons in Linnanmaa’s sporthall (about 3kms from our school) then we can buy coke after lessons.

Matti and Tommi, 8B

Finland is one of the leading ice-hockey countries of the world. Sm-liiga is the top professional hockey league in Finland. There are 14 teams in sm-liiga:
- Oulun Kärpät
- Helsingin Jokerit
- Helsingin IFK (HIFK)
- Turun palloseura (TPS)
- Jyväskylän pallo (JYP)
- Kalevan Pallo (KalPa)
- Espoon Blues
- Porin Ässät
- Tampereen Tappara
- Tampereen Ilves
- Hämeenlinnan pallokerho (HPK)
- Lappeenrannan SaiPa
- Lahden Pelicans
- Rauman LukkoThe winners of the Sm-liiga receive gold medals and the Kanada-Malja.

Oulun Kärpät has won 5 league championships (1981, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008).
Ilkka Mikkola (lef.) and Jari Viuhkola (md.) raise up the Kanada-Malja.

Famous Finnish hockey players

-Jari Kurri
-Ville Peltonen
-Teemu Selänne
-Saku Koivu
-Timo Jutila
-Raimo Helminen
-Jarmo Myllys
-Jere Lehtinen
-Teppo Nummelin
-Niklas Bäckström
-Miikka Kiprusoff
-Mikko Koivu
-Olli Jokinen

Finland won Men’s World Ice Hockey Championships in 1995.

This text was written by:Jere, Toni and Jani, Pöllönkangas school 8B