Pauli Ensio Siitonen (born 3 February 1938) is a retired Finnish

cross-country skier Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

. He was one of the most successful long-distance cross-country skiers of the 1970s, and in 1973 became the second Finnish skier to win

Vasaloppet (Swedish for 'the Vasa-race') is an annual long distance cross-country ski race held on the first Sunday of March. The course starts in the village of Berga, just south of Sälen in western Dalarna, Sweden, and ends in the town of Mora in the c ...

. Siitonen competed at the 1968 Olympics,Pauli Siitonen
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Finlandia-hiihto Finlandia-hiihto (Swedish: ''Finlandialoppet'', English: ''Finlandia Ski Marathon'') is a long-distance cross-country skiing competition, held in Finland each February. Initially, the track stretched from Hämeenlinna to Lahti via Lammi. Since the ...

in Finland and König-Ludwig-Lauf in

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. Siitonen is credited with popularizing the so-called Siitonen-step (or "marathon skate"), the precursor to modern skating technique in cross-country skiing.

Cross-country skiing results

Olympic Games

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Siitonen, Pauli 1938 births Finnish male cross-country skiers Living people Vasaloppet winners Cross-country skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics Olympic cross-country skiers of Finland 20th-century Finnish people