Finnish Athletics Championships

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The top of the men's 400m hurdles race is coming to the eighth fence during the 2020 Finnish Athletics Championships at the Paavo Nurmi Stadium in Turku. Oskari Mörö, a silver medalist on the fourth track, is still short of , a gold medalist on the fifth track, and , a bronze medalist on the third track.

The Finnish Athletics Championships, which are known as Kalevan kisat in Finnish, were first held in Tampere in 1907. Since then, they have been held in a different location every year. In the beginning, women were not allowed to compete in the Finnish Championships.

The Kaleva Cup[]

In 1909, the personnel at the life insurance company Kaleva donated a trophy called the Kalevan malja or the Kaleva Cup to be awarded to and kept for until the next Championships by the team accumulating the most points during the competition.

In 1909, the Finnish Championships started to be informally referred to as the Kaleva Games because of the name of the cup. At the Championships held in Pori in 1915, the magazine Suomen Urheilulehti started to call the competition the Kaleva Games in its headlines. In 1937, at the Championships held in Vyborg, the Finnish athletics federation called (Suomen Urheiluliitto in Finnish) formally declared the name of the Finnish Championships to be the Kaleva Games.

History[]

Edition Venue Dates
1907 Tampere 3–4 August
Kuopio 29–30 August
Helsinki 3–5 July
Viipuri 2–3 July
Tampere 15–16 July
Turku 31 August–1 September
Helsinki 19–20 July
Helsinki 19–20 September
Pori 14–15 August
Helsinki 19–20 August
Tampere 18–19 August
Helsinki 31 August–1 September
Turku 16–17 August
Helsinki 3–4 July
Kotka 20–21 August
Helsinki 19–20 August
Kuopio 18–19 August
Lahti 23–24 August
Viipuri 15–16 August
Tampere 14–15 August
Turku 20–21 August
Helsinki 25–26 August
Viipuri 17–18 August
Tampere 16–17 August
Helsinki 15–16 August
Helsinki 6–7 August
Turku 5–6 August
Tampere 28–29 July
Kotka 10–11 August
Turku 22–23 August
Viipuri 6–8 August
Helsinki 6–8 August
Helsinki 26–28 August
Tampere 24–26 August
– –
Helsinki 29–30 August
Helsinki 14–15 August
Helsinki 23–24 September
Turku 11–12 August
Helsinki 10–12 August
Tampere 16–18 August
Vaasa 21–22 August
Kymi 20–21 August
Jyväskylä 12–13 August
Helsinki 19–20 August
Seinäjoki 23–24 August
Pori 15–16 August
Turku 12–13 August
Kuopio 13–14 August
Lahti 25–26 August
Tampere 17–18 August
Kouvola 2–3 August
Helsinki 16–17 August
Hämeenlinna 13–14 August
Mikkeli 12–13 August
Lappeenranta 18–19 August
Turku 17–18 August
Oulu 15–16 August
Jyväskylä 7–8 August
Tampere 13–14 August
Pori 11–13 August
Varkaus 16–18 August
Helsinki 16–18 August
Kouvola 14–16 August
Oulu 23–25 July
Joensuu 11–13 August
Hyvinkää 10–12 August
Jyväskylä 9–11 August
Seinäjoki 18–20 July
Turku 2–4 July
Tampere 29–31 July
Kokkola 4–6 August
Helsinki 11–13 August
Lappeenranta 4–6 July
Oulu 7–9 August
Kouvola 13–15 August
Pori 1–3 July
Kajaani 6–8 July
Lahti 16–18 August
Vaasa 25–27 July
Kuopio 14–16 August
Hämeenlinna 5–7 August
Turku 28–30 July
Oulu 3–5 August
Helsinki 27–29 July
Jyväskylä 3–5 July
Mikkeli 30 July–1 August
Tuusula 8–10 July
Lapua 20–23 July
Tampere 4–7 July
Lappeenranta 17–20 July
Oulu 6–9 August
Seinäjoki 5–8 August
Lahti 17–20 August
Turku 6–8 July
Joensuu 18–21 July
Vaasa 30 July–1 August
Pori 15–17 July
Jyväskylä 21–23 July
Helsinki 9–11 August
Lappeenranta 3–5 August
2008 Tampere 24–27 July
2009 Espoo 31 July–2 August
2010 Kajaani 5–8 August
Turku 4–7 August
2013 Lahti 23–26 August
Vaasa 25–27 August
Kuopio 31 July–3 August
Pori 30 July–2 August
2016 Oulu 21–24 July
Seinäjoki 20–23 July
2018 Jyväskylä 19–22 July
2019 Lappeenranta 1–4 August
2020 Turku 13–16 August
Tampere
Joensuu

Championships records[]

Women[]

Event Record Athlete Date Place Ref
100 m hurdles 12.79 (+1.0 m/s) Annimari Korte 14 August 2020 Turku [1]

See also[]

  • Finnish records in athletics

References[]

  1. ^ "Kendricks tops 5.81m in Leverkusen, Nedasekau leaps 2.33m". World Athletics. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.

External links[]

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