Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this winter. Half-miler Tavernari and long-legged Hurdler Facelli of Italy, Joachim Buchner and Harry Storz, the German quarter-milers, and Sprinter Eldracher were asked. Among Finns, the invitations went to Harry Larva and Toivo Loukola, but not, for some reason, to Paavo Nurmi who, tinkering with an old automobile in his machine-shop in Turku, shrugged his shoulders and looked hard at his work when reporters asked him whether it were true that he had been feeling sick lately. Meantime, last week, down a gangplank in Manhattan strode another athlete who had received no invitation-Stanislaw Petkiewicz...
...Paavo Nurmi, famed Finn, began his second series of U. S. runnings 'by establishing in Brooklyn three world's records as follows: 3,000 yards in 7 min, 43 and 2/5 sec.; 2,500 metres in 6:58; and one and five-eighth miles in 7:23 2/5. He made these records in the course of running 3,000 yards with a stop watch in one hand...
Decathlon. Won by Paavo Yrjola of Finland, with total of 8053.29 points, world's record...
...Metre Run. Won by Willie Ritola of Finland, 14 min, 38 sec. Paavo Nurmi of Finland finished second...
...Greek play. . . . The events: Sixteen-Pound Shot Put. Won by John Kuck of the U. S., 52 ft., 11/16 in., new world's record. Running High Jump. Won by Robert W. King of the U. S., 6 ft., 4⅜ in. Ten-Thousand-Metre Run. Won by Paavo Nurmi of Finland, 30 min., 18½ sec. Willie Ritola of Finland finished a scant yard behind Nurmi. One-Hundred-Metre Dash. Won by Percy Williams of Canada, 10½ sec. Frank Wykoff, California schoolboy favorite, finished fourth. Sixteen-Pound Hammer Throw. Won by Patrick O'Callaghan of Ireland...