Staffan Tunis

Staffan Tunis, 2010

Staffan Tunis (born December 5, 1982 in Vörå , Österbotten ) is a Finnish ski orienteer .

At the Junior World Championships in 2002 Tunis won a silver and a bronze medal in the individual decisions. After his World Cup debut in 2005, he won silver at the European Championships in Ivanovo, Russia, in the relay with Arto Lilja and Teemu Köngäs, his first international medal, and he was third in the 2006 World Cup. At the 2007 World Championships in Moscow, he won the sprint behind the Russians Eduard Chrennikow and Wadim Tolstopjatow the bronze and in the middle distance behind Chrennikow the silver medal. He finished sixth in the long distance. In 2009 in Japan he again won the sprint bronze and middle distance silver, but with Teemu Köngäs and Matti Keskinarkaus gold in the relay. In 2010 he became European champion for the first time with a victory on the long distance and was second in the overall World Cup behind Eduard Chrennikow. In 2011 Staffan Tunis won the world championship in the middle distance and with Olli-Markus Taivainen and Matti Keskinarkaus again in the relay while he won the silver medals in the sprint behind Taivainen and in the long distance behind the Russian Andrei Grigorjew . At the European Championships in Sumy in 2012 , he won the sprint, the long distance and the relay, and he also won the 2011/12 World Cup ahead of Sweden's Peter Arnesson . In 2013 he won one silver and two bronze medals at the European Championships, two bronze medals at the World Championships and silver with Mervi Pesu in the sprint relay.

His sister Pernilla Tunis is also active in orienteering skiing.

Placements

Ski orienteering

World Championships: (3 × gold, 5 × silver, 4 × bronze)

• 2005 : 14th place long
• 2007 : 3rd place sprint, 2nd place medium, 6th place long, 5th place relay
• 2009 : 3rd place sprint, 2nd place medium, 4th place long, 1st place relay
• 2011 : 2nd place sprint, 1st place medium, 2nd place long, 1st place relay
• 2013 : 11th place sprint, 22nd place medium, 3rd place long, 3rd place relay, 2nd place mixed

European Championships: (5 × gold, 6 × silver, 4 × bronze)

• 2006 : 4th place sprint, 4th place medium, 17th place long, 2nd place relay
• 2008 : 10th place sprint, medium dsq., 5th place long, 2nd place relay
• 2010 : 5th place sprint, 5th place medium, 1st place long, 3rd place relay
• 2011 : 2nd place sprint, 2nd place medium, 1st place long, 2nd place relay
• 2012 : 1st place sprint, 5th place medium, 1st place long, 1st place relay
• 2013 : 6th place sprint, 2nd place medium, 3rd place long, 3rd place relay, 4th place mixed
• 2014 : 14th place sprint, 7th place medium, 10th place long, 3rd place relay

World Cup:

• 2006: 3rd place
• 2008: 4th place
• 2010: 2nd place
• 2012: 1st place

Between 2006 and 2010, Tunis won six Finnish championships.

Web links

• Staffen Tunis Suomen Suunnistusliitto
• Personal blog (Swedish)