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His best overall placing is from 1997/98 season when he finished 13th.
His best overall placing is from 1997/98 season when he finished 13th.
Puurunen debuted on the World Cup scene in the 1995/96 season. His second world cup medal bronze in a pursuit is also from world championship that happened in 2003 in Khanty-Mansiysk. At the 2006 Olympics in Turin, he took a fourth place in the mass-start competition his best Olympic result.
In an ordinary world cup competition he has no better placing than 6th.