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NURMI SEEN BY OTHERS

Nurmi checking his progress from his famous stopwatch in a 5,000-metre race in Porvoo in May 1928. Ville Ritola is currently in the lead.

Nurmi has just negotiated a water jump in the steeplechase final at the Amsterdam Olympic Games, 4 August 1928. He finished second in the race. The winner Toivo Loukola is not seen in this picture. Ville Ritola (left on the fence) failed to finish.

Paavo Nurmi ran his first and only marathon (albeit a shortened distance of 40,200 metres) at the Finnish Olympic trials in Viipuri on 26 May 1932. He won the race by an overwhelming margin.

Paavo Nurmi admiring his statue with the sculptor Wäinö Aaltonen in the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki in the late 1930’s. Today the original statue stands in front of the Faculty of Sports of the University of Jyväskylä. The one in front of the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki is one of three other copies.

Paavo Nurmi with Hannes Kolehmainen, the running hero of the Stockholm Olympic Games of 1912. The picture was taken at Kolehmainen’s 60th birthday party in 1949.

Paavo Nurmi brings the flame to the Olympic Stadium at the opening ceremony of the Helsinki Olympic Games, 19 July 1952.