People from Kangasniemi - Virpi Kuitunen, Otto Manninen, Hiski Salomaa, Sami Sarjula (Paperback)

Chapters: Virpi Kuitunen, Otto Manninen, Hiski Salomaa, Sami Sarjula. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Virpi Kuitunen (born 20 May 1976 in Kangasniemi) is a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1995 to 2010. She won a bronze medal in the team sprint event (with Aino Kaisa Saarinen) at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and earned her best individual finish of fifth in the individual sprint event in those same games. Four years later in Vancouver, Kuitunen won another bronze, this time in the 4 x 5 km relay. Kuitunen has seven medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with five golds (2001: 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit, 2007: Team sprint, with Riitta-Liisa Roponen, 30 km,