Anssi Juutilainen (born 1956) is a

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competitor Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indivi ...

and world champion. He received an individual gold medal in the ''classic course'' at the 1984

World Ski Orienteering Championships The World Ski Orienteering Championships (Ski-WOC) is the official event to award the titles of World Champions in ski orienteering. The World Championships is organized every odd year. The programme includes Sprint, Middle and Long Distance compe ...

in Lavarone, and a gold medal both in the ''short course'' and the ''long course'' in

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in 1990.World Ski Orienteering Championships
– ''IOF'' (Retrieved on June 24, 2008) He finished first overall in the

World Cup in Ski Orienteering The World Cup in Ski Orienteering is a series of ski-orienteering competitions organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first official World Cup was held in 1989, then every second year up to 1999, and then in 2000, 2001, 2003, ...

in 1991, and third in 1989.World Cup in Ski Orienteering
– ''IOF'' (Retrieved on June 24, 2008)

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1956 births Living people Finnish orienteers Male orienteers Ski-orienteers {{Finland-orienteering-bio-stub