Anssi Koivuranta | |
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Country | Finland |
Full name | Anssi Einar Koivuranta |
Born | Kuusamo, Finland | 3 July 1988
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) |
Ski club | Kuusamon Erä-Veikot |
Personal best | 214.5 m (704 ft) Planica, 19 March 2009 |
World Cup career | |
Seasons | 2004–2010 (nordic combined) 2011–2015 (ski jumping) |
Starts | 68 (ski jumping) 90 (nordic combined) |
Podiums | 1 (ski jumping) 24 (nordic combined) |
Wins | 1 (ski jumping) 7 (nordic combined) |
Overall titles | 1 (2009) |
Updated on 10 February 2016. |
Anssi Einar Koivuranta (born 3 July 1988) is a retired Finnish ski jumper and former Nordic combined skier, best known for winning the 2008–09 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup. He won the gold medal in the 4 × 5 km team event and a bronze medal in the 15 km Gundersen race at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo. After winning a Ski Jumping World Cup competition in Innsbruck on 4 January 2014, Koivuranta became the first ever athlete in history of ski jumping to win an event in both Nordic combined and the ski jumping World Cup.[1]