Per capita, Finland is still among the most successful Olympic nations. However, the days are long gone when Finland took home bucketloads of medals from the Olympics. Nowadays, we mostly see Finnish motor racers and ice hockey players in the headlines. Finland is also one of the leading countries in the world in general fitness […]
The Games of the Fifth Olympiad in Stockholm were a great success for Finland. The Finnish team of 164 athletes won 9 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze medals, 26 medals in total. The excellent result was largely based on athletics and wrestling. Athletes brought home 13 medals and wrestlers 7. Hannes Kolehmainen, the Finnish […]
Paavo Nurmi – a running ambassador for Finland who embodied the nation’s aspirations towards Europe and the West Paavo Nurmi (1897–1973), who won nine gold and three silver medals at Olympics, is one of the world’s most successful distance runners of all time. At the time, Nurmi’s superiority was astonishing. The modern Finland was embodied […]
