Senja Pusula

Senja Anneli Pusula ( born March 26, 1941 in Pieksämäki, Southern Savo ) is a former Finnish cross-country skier.

Pusula celebrated at the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 in Innsbruck her first Olympic bronze medal in the relay. In addition, she won over 10 km in sixth place and over 5 km to the ninth. In her second Olympic Games in Grenoble 1968 she won no other medals. With the season they finished fifth, eighth and over 5 km at 10- km race in twelfth place. Your last international medal she won at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1970 in Vysoke Tatry, when she reached again in the relay bronze. At the Olympic Winter Games Sapporo in 1972 she went to just over 5 km and was at the end of 25

Between 1976 and 1982 Pusula was a board member of the Finnish Ski Association.

With her husband Ilpo Nuolikivi, a Nordic combiners, they also ran a cattle farm.

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