Anssi Koivuranta
Anssi Koivuranta Einar ( born July 3, 1988 in Oulu) is a Finnish Nordic combined and ski jumping. He won the Nordic Combined World Cup 2008/ 09, since the 2010/11 season he will start as a special Springer.
Career
Anssi Koivuranta started at the age of six years with the ski jumping, cross-country skiing, however, soon interested him, so he decided to eight years for the Nordic Combined. Until recently, however, the jump was his great strength that gave him good starting conditions for the running race. Often he was the winner of the jumping competition, and then could not keep his good position.
Koivuranta starts Erä - Veikot for the club Kuusamo. His World Cup debut in the then fifteen- year-old in a sprint competition on March 5, 2004 in Lahti, after he won a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Stryn. In December 2004, he was able to place first in the sprint race in Trondheim in the top 10. In January 2005, followed by the third in Sapporo his first podium finish.
At the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin Koivuranta reached third place in the team competition. His biggest successes came at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo, where he won the gold medal with the Finnish relay and the bronze medal in singles.
In the Summer Grand Prix 2008 in nordic combined, which took place in Hinterzarten, Oberstdorf and Einsiedeln, Koivuranta reached the second place in the overall result. On 30 November 2008, he won his first World Cup race in Kuusamo. He celebrated in the 2008 / 09 season, six more victories and won the World Cup before Magnus Moan. In the Finnish Championships of ski jumpers on the large hill in February 2009, he surprisingly won the title.
In March 2009 he participated in the training of ski jumpers in the Slovenian part Planica, where he reached a length of 214.5 meters on the ski jump.
In the summer of 2010, he fell ill and could not work out cross-country skiing. Therefore, he starts in the 2010/2011 season as a special Springer. After Koivuranta had won the Continental Cup jumping in the Turkish Erzurum 18 December 2010, he could reach while jumping in Oberstdorf on December 29, 2010 at the Four Hills Tournament 2010/11 with number 26 his first World Cup points at the ski jumping. The Finnish summer championships on the normal hill on September 25, 2011 in Jyväskylä he could win the title on the normal hill and with the team of Kuusamo Erä - Veikot the silver medal in the team competition. On March 31 and April 1, 2012 he was able to win on snow both on the large hill, as well as on the normal hill title.
In November 2012, Koivuranta had to undergo a few weeks before the start of the World Cup season 2012/2013 a surgery because he had several weeks of struggling with knee problems. In the Finnish Championships in mid-January 2013, then returned back into the competition scene.
End of October 2013 suffered Koivuranta for the second time a mycoplasma infection and had to take a three-week enforced break.
On January 4, 2014 Koivuranta could first obtain a special jumping as part of the Ski Jumping World Cup at the third competition of the Four Hills Tournament of the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck. He benefited from the lead after the first round of that jumping had to be canceled due to strong winds by changing 21 of 30 jumpers of the second round, so that only the first run was scored. Thus he is the first athlete in history to win both a World Cup competition in the Nordic combined, as well as a World Cup competition in ski jumping.