Jukka Vastaranta

Jukka Vastaranta (born 29 March 1984) is a Finnish professional cyclist from Tampere. From 2003 to 2006 he rode for the Dutch team but in 2007 he switched to the Belgian continental team . 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 , 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.

Major results Road

1999

2001 1st Overall Tour de l'Abitibi 1st Stages 3 & 5 1st Overall GP Général Patton 1st Stage 1 1st Overall La Coupe du Président de la Ville de Grudziądz 1st Stages 3 & 5 8th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships 2002 1st Overall GP Général Patton 1st Stage 1 1st Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan 1st Stages 1 & 2 1st Remouchamps–Ferrières–Remouchamps UCI Junior Road World Championships

7th Road race 2nd Overall Keizer der Juniores 3rd Overall UCI Juniors World Cup 2003 1st Overall Triptyque Ardennais 1st Stages 1 & 3 1st Flèche Ardennaise 1st Brussels–Opwijk 1st Stage 2 Tour des Pyrénées 2nd Overall Volta a Lleida 1st Stages 3 & 5 5th Vlaamse Pijl 5th Time trial, National Road Championships 7th Rund um Düren 8th Road race, European Under-23 Road Championships 8th Overall Ruban Granitier Breton 2004

1st Stage 3 Olympia's Tour 2nd Overall Circuit des Mines 1st Stage 3 4th La Côte Picarde 4th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers 6th Overall Paris–Corrèze 2005 1st Stage 3 Ster Elektrotoer 3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg 9th Overall UNIQA Classic 9th Scheldeprijs 2007 8th Overall Étoile 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)