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Nurmi defeated Joie Ray and Lloyd Hahn to win the mile and Ritola to win the 5, 000 m, again setting new world records for both distances.
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Nurmi and defeated
This marked the first time in over five years and 133 races that Nurmi had been defeated at a distance over 1, 000 m. In 1927, Finnish officials barred him from international competition for refusing to run against Eklöf at the Finland-Sweden international, cancelling the Peltzer rematch scheduled for Vienna.
Nurmi and Ray
His only challenger, Ray Watson of the United States, gave up before the last lap and Nurmi was able to slow down and coast to victory ahead of Willy Schärer, Henry Stallard and Douglas Lowe, still breaking the Olympic record by three seconds.
Nurmi and win
Nurmi exhibited only slight signs of exhaustion after beating Ritola to the win by nearly a minute and a half.
Lucien Duquesne stopped to help him up, and Nurmi thanked the Frenchman by pacing him past the field and offered him the heat win, which Duquesne gracefully refused.
" He became the first man after Nurmi to win the 1, 500 m and the 5, 000 m at the same Games.
Nurmi beats Wide to a win in Stockholm
Finally, Ritola joined with Nurmi to win the 3, 000 m team race.
El Guerrouj became then the first man in 80 years to win both 1500 m and 5000 m races in the same Olympics, last achieved by the " Flying Finn " Paavo Nurmi in 1924.
Four days later, El Guerrouj used a strong finish to pull past 10000 metres gold medalist Kenenisa Bekele to win gold in the 5000 metres, being the first athlete to win the 1500-5000 double since Paavo Nurmi, and also becoming the first ever Moroccan double gold medalist.
Nurmi and mile
In 1923, Nurmi became the first, and so far only, runner to hold the mile, the 5, 000 m and the 10, 000 m world records at the same time.
In 1922, he broke the world records for the 2, 000 m, the 3, 000 m and the 5, 000 m. A year later, Nurmi added the records for the 1, 500 m and the mile.
Nurmi was seven seconds slower than in his world record run in 1925, and it was immediately speculated if the mile had become too short a distance for him.
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.
Nurmi and Ritola
Struggling with injuries and motivational issues after his exhaustive U. S. tour in 1925, Nurmi found his long-time rivals Ville Ritola and Edvin Wide ever more serious challengers.
The 5, 000 m final started in less than two hours, and Nurmi faced a tough challenge from countryman Ville Ritola, who had already won the 3, 000 m steeplechase and the 10, 000 m. Ritola and Edvin Wide figured that Nurmi must be tired and tried to burn him off by running at world-record pace.
On the home straight, Ritola sprinted from the outside but Nurmi increased his pace to keep his rival a metre behind.
In the 3, 000 m team race on the next day, Nurmi and Ritola again finished first and second, and Elias Katz secured the gold medal for the Finnish team by finishing fifth.
In the 5, 000 m, Nurmi tried to repeat his move on Ritola but had to watch his teammate pull away instead.
Ville Ritola won the 10, 000 m and the 3, 000 m steeplechase, while finishing second to Nurmi on the 5, 000 m and cross country.
Albin Stenroos won the marathon, while the Finnish team ( with Nurmi and Ritola ) was victorious in the 3, 000 m and cross country team events.
Ritola leads Nurmi in 1928
Finnish officials had selected Ritola for the race as Nurmi was already running in five other distance events.
The next day he finished second behind Nurmi in the 5, 000 m. Ritola later earned another silver medal behind Nurmi in the individual cross-country race and gained a gold medal as a member of the Finnish cross-country team.
In the 1928 Summer Olympics, Ritola placed second in the 10, 000 m, behind Nurmi.
His last Olympic appearance was in the 5, 000 m. This time Ritola pulled away from Nurmi in the final curve and won by 12 metres.
Some of the most outstanding athletes from the past include Hannes Kolehmainen ( 1890 – 1966 ), Paavo Nurmi ( 1897 – 1973 ) and Ville Ritola ( 1896 – 1982 ) who won eighteen gold and seven silver Olympic medals in the 1910s and 1920s.
Dedication ceremonies were held on May 2, 1925, and featured a two-mile footrace between Ville Ritola and Paavo Nurmi of Finland, who were two of the greatest runners of their day.
In the final the main favourites are the Finns Paavo Nurmi, Ville Ritola and Loukola, their leading steeplechase specialist, who had the best hopes for gold, because the firstnamed were worn by their injuries and the gruelling 5000 m race of the previous day.
Nurmi and 5
At the 1928 Summer Olympics, Nurmi recaptured the 10, 000 m title but was beaten to the gold in the 5, 000 m and the 3, 000 m steeplechase.
By the age of eleven, Nurmi ran the 1, 500 metres in 5: 02.
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.
On 19 June, Nurmi tried out the 1924 Olympic schedule by running the 1, 500 m and the 5, 000 m inside an hour, setting new world records for both distances.
Before the 5, 000 m final, Nurmi injured himself in his qualifying heat for the 3, 000 m steeplechase.
Nurmi planned to compete only in the 10, 000 m and the marathon in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, stating that he " won't enter the 5, 000 meters for Finland has at least three excellent men for that event.
Paavo Nurmi won the 1500 m and 5, 000 m ( which were held with only an hour between them ) and the cross country run.
* 23-year-old Paavo Nurmi won the 10, 000 m and 8, 000 m cross country races, took another gold in team cross country, and a silver in 5, 000 m run.
Nurmi and 000
Seemingly untouched by the Paris heat wave, Nurmi won all his races and returned home with five gold medals, but embittered, as Finnish officials had refused to enter him for the 10, 000 m.
In 1914, Nurmi joined the sports club Turun Urheiluliitto and won his first race on the 3, 000 metres.
Nurmi set his first world record on the 10, 000 m in Stockholm in 1921.
Nurmi had won five gold medals in five events, but he left the Games embittered as the Finnish officials had allocated races between their star runners and prevented him from defending his title in the 10, 000 m, the distance that was dearest to him.
After returning to Finland, Nurmi set a 10, 000 m world record that would last for almost 13 years.
In 1926, Nurmi broke Wide's world record for the 3, 000 m in Berlin and then improved the record in Stockholm, despite Nils Eklöf repeatedly trying to slow his pace down in an effort to aid Wide.
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