The company of javelin riders Antti Ruuskanen and Tero Pitkämäki supports skier Arsi Ruuska.
Arsi Ruuskanen got a new main sponsor. PASI LEISMA
Finnish skier Arsi Ruuskanen25, got the deal of a lifetime.
– It is a very significant amount, Ruuskanen declares.
Javelin roars Antti Ruuskanen and Tero Pitkämäki company Pitkämäki & Ruuskanen Forest oy began to support the skier.
– They started as the main cooperation partner during the season. It was a nice boost.
Arsi Ruuskanen does not want to talk about the euro amounts of the contract, but of course it is a five-figure sum.
– No more opening the amount, everyone can think for themselves. I can say that it’s a good amount, says the skier.
– The agreement facilitates and enables things. I am really grateful, he adds.
The contract was negotiated by the Managers Juha and Jarno Lindblom. They manage both the former javelin thrower and the skier.
An urban legend
Spear bearers Antti Ruuskanen (left) and Tero Pitkämäki run a forestry company. The company’s turnover in the fiscal year 2023 was 854,000 euros and the operating profit was 17,000 euros. Jarno Lindblom
Antti and Arsi Ruuskanen are not related to each other.
– I didn’t know Antti beforehand. I saw him for the first time a few weeks ago.
An urban legend spread in skiing circles a few years ago that Antti Ruuskanen is Arsi’s father.
Apparently, the legend is thrown tongue in cheek, because Antti Ruuskanen is Arsia is only fifteen and a half years older.
– During my junior years, many people asked if Antti was related to me. I have never heard that he was considered my father, Arsi Ruuskanen laughs.
– Father somehow knew Antti’s father, but I didn’t, adds the mustached man.
Arsi Ruuskanen is a mixed shot putter Arsi Harjuu. The long-time captain of the national ski team Arto Nieminen said absentmindedly on Yleisradio’s broadcast at the 2023 World Championships in Planica that “Arsi Harju’s leg went to shit”.
– In the hospital bed, when I watched the clip the next day, I couldn’t help but laugh. Even after that, someone said, what Arsi Harju.
Arsi Ruuskanen competes for the best time in Italy at the cross-country Tour de Ski.