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- proper noun A
town in southeastern Finland.
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Examples
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Despite the recession, Russian entrepreneurs continue to invest in Finnish border towns such as Lappeenranta (above.)
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The 19-year-old South African won the 800 meters in 2 minutes, 4.22 seconds at the Lappeenranta Games – a long way off the 1: 55.45 Semenya clocked when she won the gold medal at the world championships in Berlin 11 months ago.
Caster Semenya Wins First Race Since Gender Test Comeback 2010
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Caster Semenya made her long-awaited return at a small athletics meeting in Lappeenranta, Finland in what was supposed to be a low-key event.
Caster Semenya returns to the track in triumph after year in limbo 2010
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Tonight at Lappeenranta, journalists bandied about terms such as "intersex" and "gender verification", or with heavy hearts confessed to colleagues that the task ahead did not sit easy with their conscience.
Caster Semenya returns to the track in triumph after year in limbo 2010
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As the stadium crowds cleared in Lappeenranta, the teenager chatted and laughed into her phone, there was a distinctly positive air of positivity about the place, an elementof freedom regained.
Caster Semenya returns to the track in triumph after year in limbo 2010
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Tomorrow evening in Lappeenranta, a small town in a south-easterly corner of Finland, Caster Semenya will make her return to competition after an enforced absence of 11 months.
Caster Semenya returns to track in Finland to end enforced limbo 2010
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The shy South African teenager won comfortably in a respectable time of 2min 4. 22sec at the Lappeenranta Games, a low‑key meeting near Finland's south‑eastern border with Russia.
Caster Semenya makes a winning return after her enforced exile Anna Kessel in Lappeenranta 2010
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There is a huge model of Vyborg in the Lappeenranta city museum so the Finns know what it was like before their destructive neighbors captured it.
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We have de facto 6 series which are homogenized from 1880, Maarianhamina, Helsinki, Lappeenranta, Jyväskylä, Oulu and Sodankylä.
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Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISPIM, International Society for Professional Innovation Management, Lappeenranta, Finland.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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