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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.
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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.
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.
Nurmi's record for most medals in the Olympic Games stood until Edoardo Mangiarotti won his 13th medal in fencing in 1960.
Twenty world records have been set at the stadium, including John Landy's records on the 1, 500 m and the mile, Nurmi's record on the 3, 000 m and Zátopek's record on the 10, 000 m. In fiction, Nurmi appears in William Goldman's 1974 novel Marathon Man as the idol of the protagonist, who aims to become a greater runner than Nurmi.
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Nurmi's success brought electric lighting and running water for his family in Turku.
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.
However, StarKist and Burnett both give full credit to Rogers, and there is no actual evidence for Nurmi's claim.
Nurmi's and Olympic
Nurmi's influence stretched further than running on the Olympic arena.
Nurmi's and was
Although he was never declared a professional, Nurmi's suspension became definite in 1934 and he retired from running.
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 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.
Nurmi's relationship with his son was termed to be " uneasy ".
Hollywood actress Maila Nurmi, best known as the horror icon " Vampira ", was often referred to as Paavo Nurmi's niece.
" 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.
" when he trained as a child, and based his training system on what he was able to find out about Nurmi's methods.
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.
Nurmi's and by
Buoyed by his defeat to Guillemot, Nurmi's races became a series of experiments which he analyzed meticulously.
Nurmi's and track
Nurmi's achievements and training methods inspired future track stars of many generations.
Nurmi's and .
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.
Helffrich's victory ended Nurmi's 121-race, four-year win streak in individual scratch races at distances from 800 m upwards.
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.
After Nurmi's suspension, Finland did not agree to return to the event until 1939.
With a 12 – 5 vote, with many not voting, Nurmi's suspension from international amateur athletics became definite.
His fiercest rival Ritola ended up living in one of Nurmi's flats, at half price.
" 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.
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.
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and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.
This enviable record would have been maintained but for a great and unexpected disaster which struck the world with murderous stealth.
DeKalb's budget for 1961 is a record one and carries with it the promise of no tax increase to make it balance.
Confidence in the state's economic future is reflected in the Georgia Power Company's record construction budget for this year.
He is basing his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened its stride -- a new record high in personal income, an increase in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for durable goods.
RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.
The record of past earnings and prospects for the future must indicate it has the ability to repay the loan out of current and anticipated income.
The Government of India shall maintain or cause to be maintained books and records adequate to identify the goods and services financed for agreed projects pursuant to paragraphs 1 ( B ) and 1 ( C ) of Article 2, of the Agreement, to disclose the use thereof in the projects and to record the progress of the projects ( including the cost thereof ).
A student to be eligible for the captaincy of any Carleton team must have a scholastic record of at least 1.00.
It truly relives another age for the inhabitants use carriages rather than autos and old British and French forts are left intact for tourists to visit and record.
Even though the registers may have an incomplete record of persons present in a particular area or include persons no longer living there, they contain precise information on ages, by date of birth, for some of the persons present ( especially children in relatively stable communities ) and supplementary information ( such as records of marital status ) for many others.
However, as witnessed by the large corporate bond calendar at present, as well as the record amount of municipal bond issues approved by voters, the over-all demands for capital funds seem likely to remain high, so that any downward pressure on rates from reduced demand should not be great.
But before discussing it, I should like to record one vote of thanks to them for the clarity with which they have stated their case.
A DUF entry must be supplied for every unit record file describing the type of file and the unit record equipment to be used.
An accompanying record of paralanguage factors for the second example might also note a throaty rasp.
Those were his only interludes behind bars, although he collected four more charges on his police record in 1921 and 1922, three for burglary and one for robbery.
However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.
Parker insisted that the size of the record would have been drastically reduced but for an unavoidable duplication of testimony.
Since it is important, for the record let's have the full name ''.
He is publicly on record as believing Mr. De Sapio should be replaced for the good of the party.
Ryne Duren and Roland Sheldon, a rookie righthander who posted a 15-1 record last year for the Yanks' Auburn ( N.Y. ) farm club of the Class-D New York-Pennsylvania League, are the probable rival pitchers.
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