Finnish cyclist

Jukka Vastaranta (born March 29, 1984) is a Finnish professional cyclist from Tampere. From 2003 to 2006 he rode for the Dutch team Rabobank but in 2007 he switched to the Belgian continental team Jartazi–Promo Fashion. In 2008 he rode for the mountain bike team Brink-Ten Tusscher, but after a good start had to retire again due to prolonged health problems.

After settling back to Finland, in late 2008 he finally found some help for the health problems he had suffered from past several seasons. In 2009, he significantly got better and won all Finnish mountain bike races that he took part in and finished 36th in MTB Marathon World Championships.

Jukka started the season 2010 without a team, but had a short contract with SP Tableware, a Greek Continental-level road team, but was in strong form. He finished 4th in MTB Marathon European Championships and took some important victories in Europe. In July, the first MTB XC Olympic Champion Bart Brentjens contacted Jukka to join his professional team, Trek-Brentjens MTB Racing Team.

Contents

• 1 Major results
  • 1.1 Road
  • 1.2 Mountain
• 2 References

Major results

Road

19992nd Criterium, European Youth Olympic Festival20011st Overall Tour de l'Abitibi1st Stages 3 & 51st Overall GP Général Patton1st Stage 11st Overall La Coupe du Président de la Ville de Grudziądz1st Stages 3 & 58th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships20021st Overall GP Général Patton1st Stage 11st Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan1st Stages 1 & 21st Remouchamps–Ferrières–RemouchampsUCI Junior Road World Championships2nd Time trial7th Road race2nd Overall Keizer der Juniores3rd Overall UCI Juniors World Cup20031st Overall Triptyque Ardennais1st Stages 1 & 31st Flèche Ardennaise1st Brussels–Opwijk1st Stage 2 Tour des Pyrénées2nd Overall Volta a Lleida1st Stages 3 & 55th Vlaamse Pijl5th Time trial, National Road Championships7th Rund um Düren8th Road race, European Under-23 Road Championships8th Overall Ruban Granitier Breton20041st Time trial, National Road Championships1st Stage 3 Olympia's Tour2nd Overall Circuit des Mines1st Stage 34th La Côte Picarde4th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers6th Overall Paris–Corrèze20051st Stage 3 Ster Elektrotoer3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg9th Overall UNIQA Cl*ic9th Scheldeprijs20078th Overall Etoile de Bessèges

Mountain

UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

• 8th, Marathon (2011)
• 27th, Cross Country (2010)

UCI Mountain Bike European Championships

• 2nd, Marathon (2011)
• 4th, Marathon (2010)
• 1st, Cross Country Juniors (2001)

UCI Mountain Bike Finnish Championships

• 1st, Cross Country (2011, 2010, 2009, 2001)
• 1st, Marathon (2010, 2009)

UCI Road Bike World Cup

• 1st overall, Juniors (2001)

UCI Road Bike World Championships

• 2nd, Juniors (2002)

UCI Road Bike Finnish Championships

• 1st, TT (2004)

Miscellaneous

• 1st in KitzAlpBike XCO (2011)
• 3rd in Dolomiti Superbike (2011)
• 1st overall in Zillertal Bike Challenge (2010)
• Winner of the 2nd event of Spanish MTB Marathon Cup (2010)
• Stage winner in Ster Electro tour (2005)
• Second in Tour of Luxemburg (2005)

References

• Jukka Vastaranta at Cycling Archives