Riitta-Liisa Roponen (born Lassila, 6 May 1978) 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, where her best individual finish was sixth in the 10 km freestyle. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships she won two team sprint medals, a gold in 2007 with Virpi Kuitunen and a silver in 2005 with Pirjo Manninen, and she earned two more golds in the 4 x 5 km relay, in 2007 and 2009. Her international record includes seven world championship medals in all, three of them gold, and three individual victories in the World Cup since 2006, as listed by the International Ski Federation.
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is a Finnish cross-country skier who has competed since 1998
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at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
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