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| Anssi Nieminen | |
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| Full name | Anssi Nieminen |
| Born | Jyväskylä, Finland |
| World Cup career | |
| Seasons | 1986 1988 1990–1993 |
| Indiv. podiums | 2 |
| Updated on 30 March 2015. | |
Anssi Nieminen is a Finnish former ski jumper.
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| Anssi Nieminen | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Anssi Nieminen |
| Born | Jyväskylä, Finland |
| World Cup career | |
| Seasons | 1986 1988 1990–1993 |
| Indiv. podiums | 2 |
| Updated on 30 March 2015. | |
Anssi Nieminen is a Finnish former ski jumper.
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Toni Markus Nieminen is a Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 1991 to 2004, with a brief comeback in 2016. He is one of the most successful contemporary ski jumpers from Finland, having won both the World Cup overall title and the Four Hills Tournament in 1992, and three medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics. He remains the youngest ever Winter Olympic gold medalist, at 16 years and 261 days. Additionally, he is known for being the first male ski jumper to land a jump surpassing 200 metres (660 ft), which he achieved in 1994 with a world record of 203 m (666 ft) on the ski flying hill in Planica.
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Anssi Einar Koivuranta 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.
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