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Paavo Nurmi was born on 13 June 1897 in Turku, a port town on the southwestern coast of Finland. In 1912 Hannes Kolehmainen “ran Finland onto the map of the world” at the Olympic Games at Stockholm by winning three gold medals in long-distance events.
Mar 7, 2012 · Hall of Fame Profile - Paavo Nurmi (Finland) The statistics for Nurmi make incredible reading. He won nine Olympic gold medals and set no less than 22 official, as well as 13 unofficial, world records in distance running events. At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, he triumphed over 10,000m on the track and took individual and team gold medals ...
At the 1924 Paris Games, Nurmi made history by becoming the first athlete ever to win five gold medals at a single Olympic Games. In the space of four astonishing days, Nurmi won the 1500m, the 5,000m, the 3,000m team event and the two cross-country events. The one that got away.
Jun 11, 2018 · Paavo Nurmi (1897-1973) was one of the greatest distance runners of all time. Known as "The Flying Finn" and "The King of Runners," he dominated long-distance running throughout the early part of the twentieth century, setting 25 world records at distances from 1,500 meters to 20,000 meters and winning nine gold and three silver medals at three ...
Nov 1, 2020 · On 10 July, in sweltering heat, Nurmi set out on his unprecedented quest to win two Olympic golds on the same day. In the first 800m of the 1,500m final, he was running three seconds faster than his own world record.
Biography. Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi, was an Olympic legend whose dedication to a rigorous training schedule and mastery of pace judgment brought a new dimension to distance running. Between 1920 and 1928 he won a record nine Olympic gold medals (six individual; three team) and three individual silver medals.
One of the so-called Flying Finns who long dominated distance running, Paavo Nurmi was perhaps the greatest runner of them all. Legend has it that his training regimen included racing a mail train in his hometown of Turku, Finland.
