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Ville Nousiainen, Tour de Ski 2010
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| Full name | Ville Antero Nousiainen | |||||||||||||||
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5 December 1983 Kouvola, Finland |
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| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Ski club | Kouvolan Hiihtoseura | |||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 2003- | |||||||||||||||
| Individual wins | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Indiv. podiums | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Ville Nousiainen (born December 5, 1983 in Kouvola) is a Finnish cross country skier who has been competing since 2002. He finished fifth in the 4 x 10 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Nousiainen won his first world championship medal with a bronze in the team sprint event with Sami Jauhojärvi at Liberec in 2009. He then followed it with another bronze in the 4 x 10 km event at those same championships.
First place victories include two 10 km FIS races and most recently 2 National Championships in Finland in 2010 (50 km, 19.8 km).