Anssi Koivuranta, Finnish nordic combined athlete, will change over the ski jumping. He will follow in the footsteps of Austrian David Zauner, who did very well already in his first season in ski jumping. The Finn is now looking for the challenge in the new discipline.

Koivuranta thought about a possible change already for some time. The decisive factor now was his good result at he Continental Cup last weekend in Wisla (POL) where he achieved a podium finish as third on Sunday. In this competitions, that was won by Norwegian Anders Fannemel, Koivuranta was by far the best Finn.

Seven victories in nordic combined and an overall World Cup title

Already on the day before Koivuranta scored the necessary points for a possible start in the World Cup as 15th.

Koivuranta was the leader after the jumping portion of many nordic combined competitions, but he couldn’t secure the lead very often until the end of the race. He won seven World Cup competitions and was on the podium 25 times. The 22-year-old was World Champion with the team in Sapporo 2007 and won bronze in the individual event there. At the Olympics 2006 in Torino he won bronze in the team competition.

The man from Kuusamo won the overall World Cup 2008/09. The Finns will be happy to have an athlete of his caliber on their team.