Kolehmainen, Hannes

Kolehmainen, Hannes

▪ Finnish athlete
byname of  Johannes Kolehmainen  
born Dec. 9, 1889, Kuopio, Finland
died Jan. 11, 1966, Helsinki

      Finnish athlete who was the first of the great modern Finnish long-distance runners. Noted for his exceptional endurance, he won four Olympic gold medals.

      Kolehmainen was born into an athletic family—two older brothers were also notable long-distance runners—and he began running in his teens, winning the British four-mile championship in 1911. At the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, under a hot sun, Kolehmainen led the 10,000-metre race from the first lap and won easily. He ran a close second to France's Jean Bouin for most of the 5,000-metre race, forging ahead with less than 20 m left to win in a world record 14 min 36.6 sec. His third gold medal came in the cross-country race (since discontinued) which at the time measured about 8,000 m (about 5 miles). Though he set another world record in a heat of the 3,000-metre team race, Finland failed to qualify for the finals that year.

      Kolehmainen ran with a smooth stride, holding his arms high and twirling them in an unusual motion; he trained hard and observed a vegetarian diet. From 1912 to 1921 he lived in the United States, where he continued to compete and set records in indoor and outdoor races in 1913. At the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, he ran for Finland in the longest of all Olympic marathons—42,750 m—and, in a driving rain, won a narrow victory with a time of 2 h 32 min 35.8 sec.

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