Kalle Keituri (born 25 April 1984) is a Finnish former

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who competed from 2002 to 2014. He debuted in the Continental Cup in 2002 after winning a bronze medal at the 2002 Junior World Championship in Schonach. On 1 March 2002 he made his

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debut in

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, finishing 19th and gaining 12 points; his overall position at the end of the season was 66th. In the following season he finished 26th in Lahti. In 2004 he did not participate in the World Cup. The next year was Keituri's best as he reached 9th position in the overall Continental Cup standings, with 540 points; he also competed in five World Cup events. In Lahti he was 22nd, followed by 29th

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and 22nd in

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; this gained him 22 points in the overall World Cup. During the 2005–06 World Cup season his best performance was ninth in

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on 22 January 2006, but his final Continental Cup position was only 67th. In the 2007–08 World Cup season he achieved ninth in

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, which remains his personal best finish. The largest jump in his career was 205.5 metres in Planica. At the

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, Keituri finished fourth in the team large hill event and 22nd on the individual normal hill.

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1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Lahti Finnish male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of Finland Ski jumpers at the 2010 Winter Olympics 21st-century Finnish people {{Finland-skijumping-bio-stub