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He took his first medal by finishing second to Frenchman Joseph Guillemot in the 5, 000 m. This would remain the only time that Nurmi lost to a non-Finnish runner in the Olympics.
He went on to win gold medals in his other three events: the 10, 000 m, sprinting past Guillemot on the final curve and improving his personal best by over a minute, the cross country race, beating Sweden's Eric Backman, and the cross country team event where he helped Heikki Liimatainen and Teodor Koskenniemi defeat the British and Swedish teams.
Nurmi, however, was given a scholarship to study at the Teollisuuskoulu industrial school in Helsinki.
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