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 […]
Jean Sibelius shaped Finnish culture and made Finland known around the world Still in the 2010s, Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) is a world-renowned composer. Sibelius was inspired by national themes which he gave a modern treatment in his works. Sibelius was orphaned under the age of three, when his father, a physician, died of typhoid in […]
