Senja Pusula

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Senja Pusula Cross-country skiing
Full name Senja Anneli Pusula
nation FinlandFinland Finland
birthday March 26, 1941
place of birth Pieksämäki
size 162 cm
Career
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 1964 Innsbruck 3 × 5 km
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
bronze 1970 Vysoké Tatry 3 × 5 km
 

Senja Anneli Pusula (born March 26, 1941 in Pieksämäki , Etelä-Savo ) is a former Finnish cross-country skier .

Pusula celebrated her first Olympic bronze medal with the relay at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . In addition, she took sixth place over 10 km and ninth over 5 km. At her second Olympic Games in Grenoble in 1968 , she could not win any more medals. With the relay she reached fifth place, eighth over 5 km and twelfth place in the 10 km race. She won her last international medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Vysoké Tatry in 1970 , when she again achieved bronze in the relay. At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , she only competed over 5 km and was 25th at the end. At the Svenska Skidspelen , she won the relay in 1965 and in 1968 over 10 km. In addition, she achieved third place over 10 km in 1965 and third place with the relay in 1967 and 1969. At the Lahti Ski Games she won the 10 km in 1966, in 1968 and 1970 with the relay and took third place with the relay in 1967, second place over 10 km in 1968 and second place with the relay in 1971. In 1968 she triumphed at Holmenkollen at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival over 5 km. At Finnish championships she won three times over 10 km (1965, 1967, 1968) and twice over 5 km (1965, 1966).

Between 1976 and 1982 Pusula was a board member of the Finnish Ski Association.

She also ran a cattle ranch with her husband Ilpo Nuolikivi , a Nordic combiner .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Results Svenska Skidspelen
  2. Results Lahti Ski Games
  3. Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners list