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Arto Saari

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Arto Saari is a Finnish professional skateboarder and photographer, born on November 9, 1981, in Seinäjoki, Finland. He first drew the attention of the global skateboarding community by winning silver at the 1998 skateboarding world championships in Munster, Germany, at the age of 16, after which Danny Way invited him to tour Canada with the Plan B, Platinum and Red Dragons teams. He then moved to the United States to join Flip Skateboards, was named Thrasher's Skater of the Year in 2001, one of only two Europeans to win that award, and left Flip for Alien Workshop in 2008 following the death of his Flip teammate Shane Cross.

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