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The Paavo nurmi statue (also known as the Paavo Nurmi runner statue) is a whole-body sculpture of runner Paavo Nurmi, the most successful Olympic athlete...

Paavo Johannes Nurmi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpɑːʋo ˈnurmi] ; 13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973) was a Finnish middle-distance and long-distance runner....

the Paavo Nurmi statue (1925), the Three Smiths Statue (1932), the Aleksis Kivi Memorial (1939), the Eino Leino Statue (1953), the Equestrian statue of...

1919–1921 Punagraniittinen neito, 1923 Mustagraniittinen neito, 1924 Paavo Nurmi runner statue, 1924–1925 Seisova nainen, 1920–1924 Istuva nainen, 1920–1925...

000 participants and 50,000 watchers. The course starts near the statue of Paavo Nurmi and finishes at the Olympic Stadium. Various parks, miles of Baltic...

compared to his rivals, especially the more famous of the Flying Finns, Paavo Nurmi, who started systematic training in his teens. In 1919 he joined the...

team SC Union 06 Oberschöneweide. On 24 May 1926, the Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi set another world record at 3000 metres. The public celebrations of Reich...

Head: Desire Xu Beihong – Jiang Biwei by a table Wäinö Aaltonen – Statue of Paavo Nurmi Josep Clarà – Serenity Jacob Epstein – Rima (memorial to W. H. Hudson...

program modeled on what he had read about the great Finnish Olympian Paavo Nurmi. A mere four years later, in 1944, Zátopek broke the Czechoslovak records...

country running teams, which had been beaten throughout the 1920s by Paavo Nurmi and the Finnish team. Holmér's new training plan applied a faster-than-race...

v t e IAAF Hall of Fame Jesse Owens Abebe Bikila Paavo Nurmi Sergey Bubka Sebastian Coe Carl Lewis Emil Zátopek Al Oerter Adhemar da Silva Edwin Moses...

He was the first person to accomplish this feat at the Olympics since Paavo Nurmi in 1924. Greek athlete Fani Halkia came out of retirement to win the...

ceremony, just after the Olympic cauldron had been lit. In Cleveland, Ohio, a statue of Owens in his Ohio State track suit was installed at Fort Huntington Park...

continued to compete in the mile run in the first half of the 1900s – Paavo Nurmi, Jack Lovelock and Sydney Wooderson were all world record holders over...

publicised stunt took place in 1961, when a team of students smuggled a statue of Paavo Nurmi onto the 300-year-old wreck of Regalskeppet Vasa just days before...

publicised stunt took place in 1961, when a team of students smuggled a statue of Paavo Nurmi onto the 300-year-old wreck of Regalskeppet Vasa just days before...

were held alongside ritual sacrifices honouring both Zeus (whose famous statue by Phidias stood in his temple at Olympia) and Pelops (divine hero and mythical...

Ground Trust Walk of Honour 2001 – Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2003 – Statue unveiled outside at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 2007 – NSW Hall of Champions...

Forces at Folsom Field at the University of Colorado. A life-size bronze statue of Shorter stands outside the stadium. In 2021, Shorter and his wife, Michelle...

the country's national hero. Abebe is interred in a tomb with a bronze statue at Saint Joseph Church in Addis Ababa. Abebe began, and largely inspired...