His fiercest rival Ritola ended up living in one of Nurmi's flats, at half price.

" when he trained as a child, and based his training system on what he was able to find out about Nurmi's methods.

After Nurmi's suspension, Finland did not agree to return to the event until 1939.

In Finland, another marathon bearing the name has been held in Nurmi's hometown of Turku since 1992, along with the athletics competition Paavo Nurmi Games that was started in 1957.

Although he was never declared a professional, Nurmi's suspension became definite in 1934 and he retired from running.

Nurmi's speed and elusive personality spawned nicknames such as the " Phantom Finn ", while his achievements, training methods and running style influenced future generations of middle and long distance runners.

Nurmi's siblings, Siiri, Saara, Martti and Lahja, were born in 1898, 1902, 1905 and 1908, respectively.

Nurmi's brother Lahja died in 1909 and his father Johan a year later.

Nurmi's stubbornness caused him difficulties with his non-commissioned officers, but he was favoured by the superior officers, despite his refusal to take the soldier's oath.

Nurmi's success brought electric lighting and running water for his family in Turku.

Buoyed by his defeat to Guillemot, Nurmi's races became a series of experiments which he analyzed meticulously.

Nurmi's trip to the 1924 Summer Olympics was endangered by a knee injury in the spring of 1924, but he recovered and resumed training twice a day.

Helffrich's victory ended Nurmi's 121-race, four-year win streak in individual scratch races at distances from 800 m upwards.

On the final lap, he sprinted clear of the others and finished nine seconds behind the world-record setting Loukola ; Nurmi's time also bettered the previous record.

Nurmi's one-hour record stood for 17 years, until Viljo Heino ran 129 metres further in 1945.

Nurmi's time was the new unofficial world record for the short marathon.

On the eve of the marathon, all the entrants of the race except for the Finns, whose positions were known, filed a petition asking Nurmi's entry to be accepted.

Finns charged that the Swedish officials had used devious tricks in their campaign against Nurmi's amateur status, and ceased all athletic relations with Sweden.

With a 12 – 5 vote, with many not voting, Nurmi's suspension from international amateur athletics became definite.

Nurmi's last record fell in 1996 ; his 1925 world record for the indoor 2, 000 m lasted as the Finnish national record for 71 years.

Hollywood actress Maila Nurmi, best known as the horror icon " Vampira ", was often referred to as Paavo Nurmi's niece.

" French journalist Gabriel Hanot questioned Nurmi's intensive approach to sports and wrote in 1924 that Nurmi " is ever more serious, reserved, concentrated, pessimistic, fanatic.

" Some contemporary Finns nicknamed him Suuri vaikenija ( The Great Silent One ), and Ron Clarke noted that Nurmi's persona remained a mystery even to Finnish runners and journalists: " Even to them, he was never quite real.

" Regarding Nurmi's track antics, Peltzer found that " in his impenetrability he was a Buddha gliding on the track.

Nurmi's speed and elusive personality led to nicknames such as the " Phantom Finn ", the " King of Runners " and " Peerless Paavo ", while his mathematical prowess and use of a stopwatch led the press to characterize him as a running machine.

Nurmi's record for most Olympic gold medals was matched by gymnast Larisa Latynina in 1964, swimmer Mark Spitz in 1972 and fellow track and field athlete Carl Lewis in 1996, and broken by swimmer Michael Phelps in 2008.

Nurmi's record for most medals in the Olympic Games stood until Edoardo Mangiarotti won his 13th medal in fencing in 1960.

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