TUOMARIT

Sari Mikkilä

Hailing from Teuva, Western Finland, she represents the best that Finnish judges have to offer. 

Sari is a seasoned, highly regarded and professional Judge, who is loved throughout the world and especially by the Finnish agility community. Not surprisingly, she was selected as the national judge in the Finnish AWC held at Turku 2019. 

On top of Judging - a lot - she also competes actively, often in the midst of judging. She is a well oiled agility machine! On Sari’s courses you have just the right balance of speed, technique, challenges and pleasure. It is hard not to smile on her courses, especially if you manage to pull through with a clean run! 

"It's allways fun to work with TamSK. Let's have fun together this summer at Sääksjärvi!" -Sari-

Richard Solvang

Living in the north of Norway on a small farm, Richard has a total of 5 dogs. He has been doing agility since 2011 and became an international FCI judge in 2019. In his spare time he works at the local hospital in IT. 

What it comes to his course design he tries to make them flowy and fun to run, both for dogs and handlers. He says his dogs have influenced his design. His insecure, now retired kelpie, gave him ideas of fast non-technical starts, his big malinois made him think about safety and distance more and finally his youngest border collie has shown him what else can be done regarding technical challenges.

"I am looking forward to judging Tamsk Open 2025 and hope to see you all there!" - Richard-

Rafael Arjona Gordillo

Rafael has been running agility for over 20 years now, since his first dog Chica (cocker spaniel) to his youngest one Level (working cocker spaniel). Between Chica and Level he has run with a lovely poodle and some crazy pyrsheps, too. Each dog has required a lot of patience and time, but in return have given so much joy, including his beautiful wife ❤️

Around 5 years ago he decided to take a new step in his agility career and became a judge. Seeing each competitor run their course from the beginning to the end, watching each team how they fight overcome the obstacles on their way, seeing their wish to grow and become the better version of themselves was something that made him love agility even more!

"Very grateful to be able to come back to Finland and share my passion with all of you!!" - Rafael-

Mikko Aaltonen

Mikko and his wife Mari Kaplas are some the friendlies people you will find. Together they house 6 dogs in their home/agilitycenter in Oulu.  Mikko has emplyed himself with coaching agility since 2007, and is a full fledged proffesional.

Bordercollies Kesy (7 years) and Keys (3 years) are running with him in grade 3, but Mikko has had plenty of experience before them. He has competed in international, and national championships since 1998 with 8 different dogs, representing Finland in 16 different years. Mikko is a Wolrd Champion, Nordic Champion, multi-Finnish national champion and multi European Open team-champion. He is the essence of a superstar.

Mikko graduated as an agility judge in december 2022. His aim is to create safe and smooth courses, that hold speedy puzzles that can be solved in a variety of ways. He enjoys it immensly when a team succeeds in solving the puzzle, but most of all, seeing them have fun flying through the course. 

"Let's have fun and enjoy agility together with the dogs. See you at the courses!" -Mikko-