Osku Palermaa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Osku Palermaa (born 18 November 1983) in Espoo, Finland is a Finnish Ten-pin bowler.

1 Today
2 Achievements
- 2.1 2006
- 2.2 2007
3 Miscellaneous
4 External links

[edit] Today

Palermaa has 5 EBT titles to his name, and was the EBT ranking champion in 2007. Palermaa was also joint runner up in the 2005 EBT rankings, and runner up in the 2006 EBT rankings.

Palermaa has to date bowled 30 perfect games

[edit] Achievements

[edit] 2006

Palermaa won the bronze medal at the World Ranking Masters tournament.

Palermaa won the 2006 AMF World Cup, defeating Norway's Petter Hansen 2 games to 1 in the final.
Palermaa averaged over 250 in the qualifying rounds (24 games), bowling 2 perfect games in the process.

Palermaa was voted the 'Bowler Of The Year' by the industry writer's, and was also voted 'Bowler Of The Year' in his native Finland, and 'Athlete Of The Year' in his home town, Espoo

[edit] 2007

In April, Palermaa was invited for the first time to participate in the World Tenpin Masters tournament, held at the Barnsley Metrodome. Palermaa beat South Africa's Guy Caminsky in the first round (464-438), before losing to the 2006 champion, American PBA bowler Chris Barnes in the quarter-final (490-467).

Following this, Palermaa travelled to Turkey for the 4th Istanbul open, and was victorious, defeating fellow two-handed bowler Jason Belmonte from Australia in the single-game final (258-195). This win, his 5th on the European Bowling Tour and his 2nd in 2007, put him on top of the 2007 EBT rankings, narrowly ahead of 3-time EBT ranking champion, Paul Moor from England.

Palermaa participated in the 2007 World Ranking Masters [1] at the Kegel Training Centre, Lake Wales, Florida, U.S., and finished the 24 game qualifer as the number 1 seed, with an average of 241.58. He was then defeated in the quarter finals by Thomas Gross of Austria 2-0 (196-265, 203-207). Palermaa finished in 5th position.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Palermaa uses the rare two handed "shovel" style, which gives him lots of revolutions. For certain spares he puts his thumb in the ball and throws the ball hard and straight.