Mikko Kokslien (born 10 March 1985) is a Norwegian

nordic combined Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first 1924 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics in ...

skier. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 () took place 18 February – 1 March 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic. This was the fourth time these championships were hosted either in the Czech Republic or in Czechoslovakia, having done so at J ...

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and earned his best individual finish of 13th in the 10 km individual large hill at those same championships. At the

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, Kokslien finished 32nd in the 10 km individual normal hill and 39th in the individual large hill event. He was the runner-up in the 2010–11 World Cup season. His mother is a Finn (from

Lahti Lahti (; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Päijät-Häme. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Lahti is approximately , while the Lahti sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the mo ...

) and Mikko speaks Finnish fluently. He represents the club

Søre Ål IL Søre Ål Idrettslag is a Norway, Norwegian Nordic skiing, skiing club from Søre Ål, Lillehammer, Norway. The club was founded in 1944. Cross-country skiers Brit Pettersen Tofte and Thea Krokan Murud represented the club, so did the Nordic co ...

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* * * 1985 births Living people Norwegian male Nordic combined skiers FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Norway Nordic combined skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Norwegian people of Finnish descent Skiers from Lillehammer 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-wintersport-bio-stub