Pirjo Muranen

Medal record

Pirjo Muranen at Tour de Ski in Prague, 2007
Women's cross country skiing
Competitor for  Finland
Olympic Games
Bronze 2010 Vancouver 4 x 5 km relay
World Championships
Gold 2001 Lahti Individual sprint
Gold 2007 Sapporo 4 x 5 km
Gold 2009 Liberec 4 x 5 km
Silver 2005 Oberstdorf Team sprint
Bronze 2009 Liberec Individual sprint
Bronze 2011 Holmenkollen 4 x 5 km

Pirjo Muranen (née Manninen, born March 8, 1981 in Rovaniemi) is a Finnish cross country skier who has competed since 1998. She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 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 x 5 km: 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.

References

2001: Pirjo Manninen (FIN) * 2003: Marit Bjørgen (NOR) * 2005: Emelie Öhrstig (SWE) * 2007: Astrid Jacobsen (NOR) * 2009: Arianna Follis (ITA) * 2011: Marit Bjørgen (NOR)
3 x 5 km

1954: Soviet Union (Lyubov Kozyreva, Margarita Maslennikova & Valentina Tsaryova) · 1958: Soviet Union (Radya Yeroshina, Alevtina Kolchina & Lyubov Kozyreva) · 1962: Soviet Union (Lyubov Baranova, Maria Gusakova & Alevtina Kolchina) · 1966: Soviet Union (Klavdiya Boyarskikh, Rita Achkina & Alevtina Kolchina) · 1970: Soviet Union (Nina Baldycheva, Galina Kulakova & Alevtina Olyunina)
4 x 5 km

1974: Soviet Union (Nina Baldycheva, Nina Selyunina, Raisa Smetanina & Galina Kulakova) · 1978: Finland (Taina Impiö, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Hilkka Riihivuori & Helena Takalo) · 1982: Norway (Anette Bøe, Inger Helene Nybråten, Berit Aunli & Britt Pettersen) · 1985: Soviet Union (Tamara Tikhonova, Raisa Smetanina, Liliya Vasilchenko & Anfisa Romanova) · 1987: Soviet Union (Antonina Ordina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Larisa Ptistyna & Anfisa Reztsova) · 1989: Finland (Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Jaana Savolainen & Marjo Matikainen) · 1991: Soviet Union (Lyubov Yegorova, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova & Yelena Välbe) · 1993: Russia (Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Lyubov Yegorova) · 1995: Russia (Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina & Nina Gavrilyuk) · 1997: Russia (Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Yelena Välbe) · 1999: Russia (Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Anfisa Reztsova & Nina Gavrilyuk) · 2001: Russia (Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Yuliya Chepalova & Nina Gavrilyuk) · 2003: Germany (Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel & Evi Sachenbacher) · 2005: Norway (Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Kristin Størmer Steira & Marit Bjørgen) · 2007: Finland (Virpi Kuitunen, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen & Pirjo Manninen) · 2009: Finland (Pirjo Muranen, Virpi Kuitunen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen & Aino-Kaisa Saarinen) · 2011: Norway (Vibeke Skofterud, Therese Johaug, Kristin Størmer Steira & Marit Bjørgen) ·