Leetoja, whose older brother Vaiko was also a Nordic combined athlete until 2005, started an international competition for the first time in 2006 at the Nordic Youth Competition. In Vörå , Finland , he finished fifth in the individual competition. At the end of the 2006/07 season he appeared in Kuusamo for the first time in the B World Cup of Nordic Combined. His best placement there was 32nd place in the mass start competition. In the following season he only competed internationally at the Junior World Championships in Zakopane . There he took 31st place in the individual competition. In the 2008/09 season he started regularly in the Continental Cup. The student at the Lapland Vocational School in Rovaniemi in Park City achieved his best placement with 21st place . Leetoja had his first World Cup start in February 2009 in Klingenthal , where he finished 38th. The young athlete was then nominated for the 2009 Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec . In the mass start competition he was able to work his way up to 31st place after finishing 46th in cross-country skiing. He proved that Leetoja's strengths lie above all in ski jumping in the individual competition on the normal hill when he managed the second longest jump. Due to problems with the landing, he had to accept deductions in the posture marks and took eleventh place after jumping. In the final cross-country skiing, he had to let some competitors pass and ended up in 22nd place. He also knew how to convince in the team competition and made the second-longest jump in the last group. In the end, the Estonian team finished ninth. From the large hill Leetoja botched his jump and was only 45th. After the world championship, Leetoja started in the Continental Cup in Rovaniemi. After jumping he took second place with the German Sebastian Reuschel . Together they managed to leave the leading Austrian Johannes Weiss behind. Reuschel secured victory in the final sprint and Leetoja achieved his first podium finish in the Continental Cup. At the start of the 2009/10 season , Leetoja surprised again in the first sub-discipline of the World Cup and, together with his compatriot Kaarel Nurmsalu, took tenth place after the jumping. However, he failed again to use this good starting position and he missed his first World Cup points in 34th place. The next day he was even able to improve his ski jumping result and won the ski jumping run ahead of Eric Frenzel and Jason Lamy Chappuis . After trying to keep up with the pace of the two at the beginning of the cross-country skiing, however, as on the previous day, he had to let a large part of the starting field pass him and in the end, with the 49th run of 52 starters, he finished 33rd.
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