Anti Saarepuu
Anti Saarepuu ( born March 26, 1983 in Võru ) is an Estonian cross-country skier.
Life and career
Early in his career, Saarepuu concentrated mainly on Sprint competitions. So in Sollefteå with ninth place he succeeded in the sprint competition at the Junior World Championships in 2003 made it into the top ten, while only 38 classic could be about 10 kilometers. His first World Cup start had Saarepuu in March 2004 in Lahti, where he narrowly missed a 33 in the final. In the following season 2004/ 05 he was accepted into the World Cup team and managed in his first start, in the World Cup opener in Dusseldorf, the jump in the finals and won his first World Cup as 21 points. He succeeded in all his starts in sprint competitions in the World Cup to get through the qualification. His best result he was able to win in Gothenburg, when he reached the B final and finished seventh in the final standings. In the team sprint in Pragelato he fought along with Andrus Veerpalu fifth place. At the end of the season, he finished in eleventh place in the overall standings of the Spring Cup and 34th place in the overall World Cup. Saarepuu able to build on the achievements shown earlier in the World Cup also at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf. In the sprint competition, he finished in tenth place as the final runner of the Estonian season he won the ninth place.
Also in the 2005/06 season succeeded Saarepuu to the good results of the previous year to tie. However, he managed only at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 to make it into the top ten. In the sprint, he finished eighth place in the team sprint together with Priit Narusk the 14th Place. At the end of the season he was 20th overall in the Sprint Cup. After initially poor results in the 2006/07 season, Saarepuu was his performance mid-season stabilize, then fell ill, however, and was unable to attend the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo. After his illness he failed in the last World Cup competitions each clearly in qualifying. In the 2007 /08 season he failed to regain the world's top port. Except for the sprint in Rybinsk he missed always the finals. To kick off the season 2008/09 Saarepuu for almost a year qualified in the sprint in Kuusamo first time for the quarterfinals. There, however, he was involved in a crash and had to settle for 29th place. After a 24th place in the sprint in Dusseldorf he reached in Rybinsk with eighth place his first top- ten finish since 2006. This result he could at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec with the victory in the B final and thus number seven in the confirm the final standings.