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...
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Paavo Johannes Nurmi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpɑːʋo ˈnurmi] ; 13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973) was a Finnish middle-distance and long-distance runner....
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Helsinki (section Statues and sculptures)
the Paavo Nurmi statue (1925), the Three Smiths Statue (1932), the Aleksis Kivi Memorial (1939), the Eino Leino Statue (1953), the Equestrian statue of...
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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...
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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...
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1919–1921 Punagraniittinen neito, 1923 Mustagraniittinen neito, 1924 Paavo Nurmi runner statue, 1924–1925 Seisova nainen, 1920–1924 Istuva nainen, 1920–1925...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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