Anssi Koivuranta
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| Country |
 Finland
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| Full name | Anssi Einar Koivuranta |
| Born |
3 July 1988 Kuusamo, Finland |
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) |
| Ski club | Kuusamon Erä-Veikot |
| Personal best | 214.5 m (704 ft)  Planica, 19 March 2009 |
| World Cup career | |
| Seasons | 2004–2010 (nordic combined) 2011–2015 (ski jumping) |
| Individual wins | 1 (ski jumping) 7 (nordic combined) |
| Team wins | 1 (nordic combined) |
| Indiv. podiums | 1 (ski jumping) 24 (nordic combined) |
| Team podiums | 1 (nordic combined) |
| Indiv. starts | 68 (ski jumping) 90 (nordic combined) |
| Team starts | 15 (ski jumping) 3 (nordic combined) |
| Updated on 10 February 2016. | |
Anssi Einar Koivuranta (born 3 July 1988) 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.
In December the same year, in early 2004/05 season, he finished among the top ten for the first time, with an eighth place in the sprint race in Trondheim. His first podium achievement came in January 2005, with a third place in Sapporo. Almost one month later, he finished sixth in the sprint distance at the 2005 World Championships. Before the season was over, he would win a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Rovaniemi.
The 2005/06 season saw Koivuranta open with a second place, in Kuusamo in November. During the course of the season he achieved another second place as well as two third places. He also earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 team event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In December 2006 he achieved two second places in a row, and followed with consistent achievements among the top fifteen. At the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo he won the gold medal in the 4 x 5 km team event, a bronze medal in the 15 km Gundersen race and finished fourth in the sprint. At his last Junior World Championships, held in Tarvisio in March 2007, he won a gold and a silver medal. The same level of performance continued in the 2007–08 season, placing him twice on the podium.
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