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Place of Birth: Rovaniemi, Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland, Finland
About Pirjo Muranen
- Pirjo Muranen (née Manninen, born March 8, 1981 in Rovaniemi) is a retired Finnish cross-country skier.
- She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
- Muranen won five medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with three golds (Individual sprint: 2001, 4 × 5 km relay: 2007, 2009), a silver (Team sprint: 2005, with Riitta-Liisa Lassila), and a bronze (Individual sprint: 2009).
- She married on 30 June 2007; previously known by her maiden name of Pirjo Manninen. Muranen also has sixteen additional victories up to 15 km from 2000 to 2002.
- She is the younger sister of Nordic combined skier Hannu.
- At the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo, they became the first brother-sister combination to win gold medals at the same championships. Muranen retired from the sport in April 2011.
- She has then worked as a cross-country skiing pundit and studio commentator for Finland's national public-broadcasting company Yle.
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