Arja Nuolioja is a Finnish

ski-orienteering Ski orienteering (SkiO) is a cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing endurance Winter sport, winter racing sport and one of the four orienteering disciplines Sport governing body, recognized by the International Orienteering Federation, ...

competitor and world champion. She received an individual

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in the ''short distance'', and a

bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ...

in the ''long course'' at the 1996 World Ski Orienteering Championships in

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. She finished first overall in the World Cup in Ski Orienteering in 1993 and 1995.World Cup in Ski Orienteering
– ''IOF'' (Retrieved on June 24, 2008)

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Finnish orienteers Female orienteers Ski-orienteers {{Finland-orienteering-bio-stub

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