Paavo Johannes Nurmi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpɑːʋo ˈnurmi] ; 13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973) was a Finnish middle-distance and long-distance runner....
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The Paavo Nurmi Games is an annual track and field meet that takes place at Paavo Nurmi Stadium in Turku, Finland. It was first held in 1957. The competition...
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born in Petsamo, Finland, claiming she was the niece of Finnish athlete Paavo Nurmi, who began setting long-distance running world records in 1921, the year...
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The Paavo nurmi statue (also known as the Paavo Nurmi runner statue) is a whole-body sculpture of runner Paavo Nurmi, the most successful Olympic athlete...
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world number two ranking in the men's javelin throw. In June 2022 at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland, he placed second with a new personal best of...
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Paavo Nurmi Stadium (Finnish: Paavo Nurmen stadion, Swedish: Paavo Nurmis stadion) is a multi-use stadium in Turku, Finland. It is currently used mostly...
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The Paavo Nurmi Marathon is an annual road running event held each August in Iron County, Wisconsin, in the United States. The course begins in the town...
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The Paavo Nurmi Marathon is an annual marathon road running race held during summer in Turku, Finland, the birth city of Paavo Nurmi. Although various...
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1740 Paavo Nurmi, provisional designation 1939 UA, is rare-type asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter...
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official Paavo Nurmi (1897–1973), Finnish runner Paavo Piironen (1943–1974), Finnish film actor, director and writer of the 1960s and early 1970s Paavo Puurunen...
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libretto by the poet Paavo Haavikko. The opera deals with the life of the Finnish middle- and long-distance runner Paavo Nurmi who won a total of nine...
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Finnish footballer Osku Nurmi, Finnish radio personality Paavo Nurmi (1897–1973), Finnish runner, nine-time Olympic champion Teemu Nurmi (born 1985), Finnish...
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flame was lit by running heroes Paavo Nurmi (to the stadium) and Hannes Kolehmainen (to the stadium tower). When Paavo Nurmi was announced to arrive at the...
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Olympic moments No31: Paavo Nurmi wins 5,000m in 1924". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 September 2012. Raevuori, Antero (1997). Paavo Nurmi, juoksijoiden kuningas...
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compared to his rivals, especially the more famous of the Flying Finns, Paavo Nurmi, who started systematic training in his teens. In 1919 he joined the...
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participants and 50,000 watchers. The course starts near the statue of Paavo Nurmi and finishes at the Olympic Stadium. Various parks, miles of Baltic Sea...
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bronze medallist, Tirunesh Dibaba won medals from 2004 to 2012, and Paavo Nurmi won medals in the period from 1920 to 1928. Historically, athletes in...
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former world record holder in the 2000 metres. He is the only man since Paavo Nurmi to win a gold medal in both the 1500 m and 5000 metres at the same Olympic...
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Olympics, with Paavo Nurmi winning a total of nine Olympic gold medals and setting 22 official world records between 1921 and 1931. Nurmi is often considered...
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race. By then, Kolehmainen had found a worthy successor in Paavo Nurmi. Together with Nurmi, as the final link in the torch relay, he lit the Olympic Flame...
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controversial decision to ban Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi from competing at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, as he saw Nurmi as a professional athlete despite the...
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Junnila set a new Finnish record, 194 cm, on 11 June 2019 in Turku at the Paavo Nurmi Games. This earned her a place in the 2019 World Championships in Athletics...
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image of the "Flying Finns" promoted by runners like Hannes Kolehmainen, Paavo Nurmi and Ville Ritola in the 1920s. He was elected Finnish Sportsman of the...
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the women's record in 2016. Six men have won the Olympic title twice: Paavo Nurmi became the first in 1928 and he was followed by Emil Zátopek, Lasse Virén...
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Kolehmainen (FIN) 1912-07-10 Stockholm, Sweden 14:35.4 Paavo Nurmi (FIN) 1922-09-12 Stockholm, Sweden 14:28.2 Paavo Nurmi (FIN) 1924-06-19 Helsinki, Finland 14:17...
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nations' first Olympic medals. Middle-distance and long-distance runner Paavo Nurmi of Finland won the most gold medals for an individual at the Games and...
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double-chimneyed, superheated machine. Its nicknames were "Buffalo" and "Nurmi" (after Paavo Nurmi, a famous Finnish runner well known in Hungary). Locomotives of...
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light the cauldron in the stadium was the ninefold Olympic Champion Paavo Nurmi, who excited the home crowd in Helsinki in 1952. In 1968, Enriqueta Basilio...
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F 6 5 2 12 Takashi Ono Japan Gymnastics 1952–1964 Summer M 5 4 4 13 Paavo Nurmi Finland Athletics 1920–1928 Summer M 9 3 0 12 14 Birgit Fischer East...
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The maximum number of athletes per nation was 4. The event was won by Paavo Nurmi of Finland, the first of his 5 gold medals in 1924. He had previously...
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