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Nurmi remained undefeated in the distance throughout his 14-year top-level career.
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Nurmi and remained
During the Finnish Civil War in 1918, Nurmi remained politically passive and concentrated on his work and his Olympic ambitions.
Nurmi and undefeated
At his peak, Nurmi was undefeated at distances from 800 m upwards for 121 races.
* Paavo Nurmi – four-time Olympic gold medalist and undefeated throughout his 19-year career in cross country running
Nurmi and distance
Paavo Johannes Nurmi () ( 13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973 ) was a Finnish middle and long distance runner.
Previously known for his blistering pace on the first few laps, Nurmi started to carry a stopwatch and spread his efforts more uniformly over the distance.
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.
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.
Struggling with the hurdles, Nurmi let Finland's steeplechase specialist Toivo Loukola escape into the distance.
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.
However, Nurmi returned to coaching three months later and the Finnish distance runners went on take three gold medals, three silvers and a bronze at the Games.
In 1962, Nurmi predicted that welfare countries would start to struggle in the distance events: " The higher the standard of living in a country, the weaker the results often are in the events which call for work and trouble.
Finnish officials had selected Ritola for the race as Nurmi was already running in five other distance events.
The long distance track events gained popularity in the 1920s by the achievements of the " Flying Finns ", such as multiple Olympic champion Paavo Nurmi.
In a half distance Guillemot still refuses to yield and Nurmi begins to lose heart.
Nurmi and throughout
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.
It was designed for the downtrodden Swedish cross country running teams that had been beaten throughout the 1920s by Paavo Nurmi and the Finns.
Nurmi and career
Nurmi intended to end his career on a marathon gold medal, as his idol Kolehmainen had done.
As Nurmi started a new career as a share dealer, his financial advisors included Risto Ryti, director of the Bank of Finland.
Nurmi had set his heart on ending his career with a marathon gold medal, as Kolehmainen had done shortly after the First World War.
After ending his career, Nurmi became a coach for the Finnish Athletics Federation and trained runners for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Nurmi and .
* Maila Nurmi, aka 1950s TV horror hostess Vampira and co-star of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space attended Astoria High School in the late 1930s.
* 1922 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress ( d. 2008 )
* 1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner ( d. 1973 )
* 2008 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-born American actress ( b. 1921 )
Criswell's undead consort, the sexy Black Ghoul, was written for Maila Nurmi, a. k. a. Vampira, but was instead played by Fawn Silver, who wore a black bouffant wig.
Nurmi set 22 official world records at distances between 1, 500 metres and 20 kilometres, and won a total of nine gold and three silver medals in his twelve events in the Olympic Games.
Born into a worker family, Nurmi left school at the age of 12 to provide for his family.
Nurmi started to flourish during his military service, setting national records en route to his international debut at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a controversial case that strained Finland – Sweden relations and sparked an inter-IAAF battle, Nurmi was suspended before the 1932 Games by an IAAF council that questioned his amateur status.
Nurmi later coached Finnish runners, raised funds for Finland during the Winter War, and worked as a haberdasher, building contractor and share trader, eventually becoming one of Finland's richest people.
Nurmi, who rarely ran without a stopwatch in his hand, has been credited for introducing the " even pace " strategy and analytic approach to running, and for making running a major international sport.
Nurmi was born in Turku, Finland, to carpenter Johan Fredrik Nurmi and his wife Matilda Wilhelmiina Laine.
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