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Paavo Johannes Nurmi () ( 13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973 ) was a Finnish middle and long distance runner.
At his peak, Nurmi was undefeated at distances from 800 m upwards for 121 races.
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 was born in Turku, Finland, to carpenter Johan Fredrik Nurmi and his wife Matilda Wilhelmiina Laine.
At the age of 15, Nurmi rekindled his interest in athletics after being inspired by the performances of Hannes Kolehmainen, who was said to " have run Finland onto the map of the world " at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
As the unit commander Hugo Österman was a known sports aficionado, Nurmi and few other athletes were given free time to practice.
Nurmi, however, was given a scholarship to study at the Teollisuuskoulu industrial school in Helsinki.
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.
Realizing that he was now racing the two men and not the clock, Nurmi tossed his stopwatch onto the grass.
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.
Although he hated losing more than anything, Nurmi was the first to congratulate Helffrich.
Nurmi was furious at the Swedes and vowed never to race Eklöf again.
At the 1928 Olympic trials, Nurmi was left third in the 1, 500 m by eventual gold and bronze medalists Harri Larva and Eino Purje, and he decided to concentrate on the longer distances.
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.
It was customary of the IAAF to accept the final decision of its national branch, and the Associated Press wrote that " there is little doubt that if the Finnish federation clears Nurmi the international body will accept its decision without question.
Sigfrid Edström, president of the IAAF and chairman of its executive council, stated that the full congress of the IAAF, which was scheduled to start the next day, could not reinstate Nurmi for the Olympics but merely review the phases and political angles related to the case.
Details of the case were not released to the press, but the evidence against Nurmi was believed be the sworn statements from German race promoters that Nurmi had received $ 250 – 500 per race when running in Germany in autumn 1931.
The congress concluded without Nurmi being declared a professional, but the council's authority to disbar an athlete was upheld on a 13 – 12 vote.
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In 1903, the Nurmi family moved from Raunistula into a 40-square-meter apartment in central Turku, where Paavo Nurmi would live until 1932.
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.
After returning to Finland, Nurmi set a 10, 000 m world record that would last for almost 13 years.
Although he had been diagnosed with a pulled Achilles tendon two weeks earlier, Nurmi stated he would have won the event by five minutes.
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.
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.
Nurmi worked on the project for a short time, but eventually quit when the producers would not hire Lola Falana to play Vampira.
In 1962, a former villager, Onni Nurmi, bequethed the village 760 shares in a company called Nokia-then chiefly known as a manufacturer of rubber workboots-on condition that the income be used for the benefit of the elderly and that the shares would never be sold.
After 2000 m, when Nurmi had trouble at hurdles, Loukola made an attack and developed a 30 m gap to the rest of the field, which he would hold until the finish.
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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.
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.
While active as a runner, Nurmi was known to be secretive about his training methods.
Laaksonen, who was not interested in athletics, opposed Nurmi raising their newborn son Matti to be a runner and stated to the Associated Press in 1933 that " his concentration on athletics at last forced me to go to the judge for a divorce.
Nurmi, who identified as neurasthenic, was known to be " taciturn ", " stony-faced " and " stubborn ".
Time selected Nurmi as the greatest Olympian of all time in 1996, and IAAF named him among the first twelve athletes to be inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame in 2012.
Nurmi, his style, technique and tactics were held to be infallible, and really seemed so, as successive imitators in Finland steadily improved the records.
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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.
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 had little time to rest or nurse his injuries as the 3, 000 m steeplechase started the next day.
Nurmi ran for the last time on 18 February 1966 at the Madison Square Garden, invited by the New York Athletic Club.
Suffering from health problems, with at least one heart attack, a stroke and failing eyesight, Nurmi at times spoke bitterly about sports, calling it a waste of time compared to science and art.
One newspaperman dubbed Nurmi " a mechanical Frankenstein created to annihilate time.
Lasse Virén idolized Nurmi and was scheduled to meet him for the first time on the day that Nurmi died.
* Paavo Nurmi, Finnish, Regarded as the greatest track and field athlete of all time and winner of nine Olympic gold medals ( despite missing 1932 games in a professional controversy over travel expenses ), setting world records at distances between 1500 m and 20 km, and one of the Flying Finns
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.
* Paavo Nurmi ( Finland ) breaks the world record by running a time of 3: 52. 6 at Helsinki.
Lydiard's advice is often seen as complementary to those given at the time by Percy Cerutty, an Australian coach, Paavo Nurmi, the Flying Finn, and Mihály Iglói, a Hungarian coach.
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