
Paavo Johannes Nurmi, born June 13, 1887 in Turku (Abo was then called and it was the capital of Finland) and died in Helsinki on 2 October 1973. As a father of his country was the state funeral, and many other honors. This treatment was reserved only to the great figures of the nation. A later Nurmi were also devoted many important works, including several statues. The most famous is at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Paavo Nurmi was much more than just a middle-distance athlete. Really represented the soul of Finland, Paavo a silent, taciturn and introspective as the Finnish landscape with its lakes and vast forests. Nurmi competed three Olympics, won nine gold medals. He ran with a stopwatch in hand, struggling with himself and with time, the opponents were the boundary. Indeed, the rivals were more insidious by its very squadraFu a so-called "Flying Finns", together with Hannes Kolehmainen, Ville Ritola and others. During the twenties was the best middle-distance runner and cross-country skier in the world, setting world records at distances ranging from 1500 meters to 20 km.Vinse a total of nine gold medals at the Olympic Games, from 1920 to 1928. In 1932 he was unable to compete at the Olympics, because he had received money to compete and was therefore considered a professional. At the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, won three gold medals: the 10,000 ft racing cross country individual and team also finished second in the 5,000 m.Nell 'edition of 1924, he created an extraordinary space of a only 1500 m and 5000 m won hours. A company made no coincidence, since a few weeks before the Olympics, in a meeting at the field Elaintarha, near Helsinki, always within 60 minutes, he had run the same distances. In that edition won no less than 5 gold, but also included the 3000 team and, once again, both tests in cross country. This was the last time you ran cross country races because of the heat because more than half of the participants abandoned the race and many others had to be taken to ospedale.Terminò his Olympic career at Amsterdam 1928, winning two silver medals at 10,000 ft (5,000 ft 3,000 hedges). He continued to compete after the Olympics in Amsterdam, with every intention to participate in Los Angeles 1932, but was branded as a professional and excluded from the withdrawal giochi.Dopo ran a shop in Helsinki in 1952 and lit the Olympic flame at the Games XV Olympiad. He died October 2, 1973 and was honored with a funeral Stato.A him were later dedicated a statue in the square opposite the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital which depicts him in the race and an opera entitled "Paavo Suuri. Suuri Juoksu. Suuri Uni "(" Paavo The Great. A great race. A big dream "), composed by Tuomas Kantelinen Finland and Paavo Haavikko. The work was performed for the first time in August of 2000 at Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, in Helsinki's celebrations as European Capital of Culture 2000. About a thousand people, including singers, musicians and listed were involved in the representation, which also saw the use of a helicopter, a tank and fire department vehicles for scenes that recall the war.
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