Virpi Katriina Sarasvuo is a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1995 to 2010. She won a bronze medal in the team sprint event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and earned her best individual finish of fifth in the individual sprint event in those same games. Four years later in Vancouver, Kuitunen won another bronze, this time in the 4 x 5 km relay. Kuitunen has seven medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with five golds, one silver, one bronze. She also has thirty-four additional individual victories at various levels of various distances since 2000. Kuitunen won the first ever Tour de Ski competition for women in 2006?07, winning over Norway's Marit Bj�rgen by 1:17.5. She also won the overall 2006?07 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup, as well as the sprint World Cup the same season. In the season 2007?08 Kuitunen won the overall again. Because of Kuitunen's successes in cross country skiing in 2007, she was awarded Finnish Sportswoman of the Year. Kuitunen also won the Tour de Ski in 2008?09. 

May 20th, 1976 in Kangasniemi (Age 47) as Virpi Katriina Kuitunen