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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.
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Nurmi and planned
In the cancelled 1940 Summer Olympics, Nurmi had been planned to lead a group of fifty Finnish gold medal winners.
Nurmi and only
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.
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.
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 exhibited only slight signs of exhaustion after beating Ritola to the win by nearly a minute and a half.
Nurmi, looking more exhausted than ever before, only barely managed to keep Wide behind and take silver.
Nurmi running his only marathon
On his 70th birthday, Nurmi agreed to an interview for Yle, Finland's national public-broadcasting company, only after learning that President Kekkonen would act as the interviewer.
Peter Lovesey wrote in The Kings of Distance: A Study of Five Great Runners that Nurmi " accelerated the progress of world records ; developed and actually came to personify the analytic approach to running ; and he was a profound influence not only in Finland, but throughout the world of athletics.
Paavo Nurmi won the 1500 m and 5, 000 m ( which were held with only an hour between them ) and the cross country run.
After three laps Nurmi takes the lead and builds more speed and only Guillemot follows him.
Helffrich was the only runner to defeat Paavo Nurmi when the Finn toured the United States in 1925, scoring a victory in the half-mile run at the Yankee Stadium.
Nurmi and 10
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.
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.
Nurmi set his first world record on the 10, 000 m in Stockholm in 1921.
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.
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.
The Finnish Olympic Committee entered Nurmi for both the 10, 000 m and the marathon.
Less than three days before the 10, 000 m, a special commission of the IAAF, consisting of the same seven members that had suspended Nurmi, rejected the Finn's entries and barred him from competing in Los Angeles.
Less than three weeks later, Nurmi retired from running with a 10, 000 m victory in Viipuri on 16 September 1934.
In February 1940, during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, Nurmi returned to the United States with his protégé Taisto Mäki, who had become the first man to run the 10, 000 m under 30 minutes, to raise funds and rally support to the Finnish cause.
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.
* Paavo Nurmi of Finland won his ninth and final gold medal, in the 10, 000 m race.
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.
In his first race, the 10 000 m, in the absence of Paavo Nurmi, he won by half a lap and obliterated his own world record by more than 12 seconds.
In the 1928 Summer Olympics, Ritola placed second in the 10, 000 m, behind Nurmi.
* 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.
Loukola won with a new world record of 9. 21. 8, finishing almost 10 seconds ahead of second-placed Nurmi.
Nurmi and 000
In 1914, Nurmi joined the sports club Turun Urheiluliitto and won his first race on the 3, 000 metres.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 m
At his peak, Nurmi was undefeated at distances from 800 m upwards for 121 races.
Nurmi also tested his speed in the 800 m, winning the 1923 Finnish Championships with a new national record.
In the 1, 500 m final at the Olympics in Paris, Nurmi ran the first 800 m almost three seconds faster.
Nurmi and marathon
Nurmi intended to end his career on a marathon gold medal, as his idol Kolehmainen had done.
On 26 June 1932, Nurmi started his first marathon at the Olympic trials.
Nurmi had set his heart on ending his career with a marathon gold medal, as Kolehmainen had done shortly after the First World War.
Edström's right-hand man Bo Ekelund, secretary general of the IAAF and head of the Swedish Athletics Federation, approached the Finnish officials and stated that he might be able to arrange for Nurmi to participate in the marathon outside the competition.
Paavo Nurmi Marathon, held annually since 1969, is the oldest marathon in Wisconsin and the second-oldest in the American Midwest.
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.
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.
Beardsley ran his first marathon in 2: 47: 14 at the 1977 Paavo Nurmi Marathon in Hurley, Wisconsin.
0.117 seconds.