Finnish Athletics Championships
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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
[edit]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 Finnish Athletics (Suomen Urheiluliitto in Finnish) formally declared the name of the Finnish Championships to be the Kaleva Games.
History
[edit]Edition | Venue | Dates |
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1907 | Tampere | 3–4 August |
1908 | Kuopio | 29–30 August |
1909 | Helsinki | 3–5 July |
1910 | Viipuri | 2–3 July |
1911 | Tampere | 15–16 July |
1912 | Turku | 31 August–1 September |
1913 | Helsinki | 19–20 July |
1914 | Helsinki | 19–20 September |
1915 | Pori | 14–15 August |
1916 | Helsinki | 19–20 August |
1917 | Tampere | 18–19 August |
1918 | Helsinki | 31 August–1 September |
1919 | Turku | 16–17 August |
1920 | Helsinki | 3–4 July |
1921 | Kotka | 20–21 August |
1922 | Helsinki | 19–20 August |
1923 | Kuopio | 18–19 August |
1924 | Lahti | 23–24 August |
1925 | Viipuri | 15–16 August |
1926 | Tampere | 14–15 August |
1927 | Turku | 20–21 August |
1928 | Helsinki | 25–26 August |
1929 | Viipuri | 17–18 August |
1930 | Tampere | 16–17 August |
1931 | Helsinki | 15–16 August |
1932 | Helsinki | 6–7 August |
1933 | Turku | 5–6 August |
1934 | Tampere | 28–29 July |
1935 | Kotka | 10–11 August |
1936 | Turku | 22–23 August |
1937 | Viipuri | 6–8 August |
1938 | Helsinki | 6–8 August |
1939 | Helsinki | 26–28 August |
1940 | Tampere | 24–26 August |
1941 | – | – |
1942 | Helsinki | 29–30 August |
1943 | Helsinki | 14–15 August |
1944 | Helsinki | 23–24 September |
1945 | Turku | 11–12 August |
1946 | Helsinki | 10–12 August |
1947 | Tampere | 16–18 August |
1948 | Vaasa | 21–22 August |
1949 | Kymi | 20–21 August |
1950 | Jyväskylä | 12–13 August |
1951 | Helsinki | 19–20 August |
1952 | Seinäjoki | 23–24 August |
1953 | Pori | 15–16 August |
1954 | Turku | 12–13 August |
1955 | Kuopio | 13–14 August |
1956 | Lahti | 25–26 August |
1957 | Tampere | 17–18 August |
1958 | Kouvola | 2–3 August |
1959 | Helsinki | 16–17 August |
1960 | Hämeenlinna | 13–14 August |
1961 | Mikkeli | 12–13 August |
1962 | Lappeenranta | 18–19 August |
1963 | Turku | 17–18 August |
1964 | Oulu | 15–16 August |
1965 | Jyväskylä | 7–8 August |
1966 | Tampere | 13–14 August |
1967 | Pori | 11–13 August |
1968 | Varkaus | 16–18 August |
1969 | Helsinki | 16–18 August |
1970 | Kouvola | 14–16 August |
1971 | Oulu | 23–25 July |
1972 | Joensuu | 11–13 August |
1973 | Hyvinkää | 10–12 August |
1974 | Jyväskylä | 9–11 August |
1975 | Seinäjoki | 18–20 July |
1976 | Turku | 2–4 July |
1977 | Tampere | 29–31 July |
1978 | Kokkola | 4–6 August |
1979 | Helsinki | 11–13 August |
1980 | Lappeenranta | 4–6 July |
1981 | Oulu | 7–9 August |
1982 | Kouvola | 13–15 August |
1983 | Pori | 1–3 July |
1984 | Kajaani | 6–8 July |
1985 | Lahti | 16–18 August |
1986 | Vaasa | 25–27 July |
1987 | Kuopio | 14–16 August |
1988 | Hämeenlinna | 5–7 August |
1989 | Turku | 28–30 July |
1990 | Oulu | 3–5 August |
1991 | Helsinki | 27–29 July |
1992 | Jyväskylä | 3–5 July |
1993 | Mikkeli | 30 July–1 August |
1994 | Tuusula | 8–10 July |
1995 | Lapua | 20–23 July |
1996 | Tampere | 4–7 July |
1997 | Lappeenranta | 17–20 July |
1998 | Oulu | 6–9 August |
1999 | Seinäjoki | 5–8 August |
2000 | Lahti | 17–20 August |
2001 | Turku | 6–8 July |
2002 | Joensuu | 18–21 July |
2004 | Vaasa | 30 July–1 August |
2005 | Pori | 15–17 July |
2006 | Jyväskylä | 21–23 July |
2003 | Helsinki | 9–11 August |
2007 | Lappeenranta | 3–5 August |
2008 | Tampere | 24–27 July |
2009 | Espoo | 31 July–2 August |
2010 | Kajaani | 5–8 August |
2011 | Turku | 4–7 August |
2013 | Lahti | 23–26 August |
2013 | Vaasa | 25–27 August |
2014 | Kuopio | 31 July–3 August |
2015 | Pori | 30 July–2 August |
2016 | Oulu | 21–24 July |
2017 | Seinäjoki | 20–23 July |
2018 | Jyväskylä | 19–22 July |
2019 | Lappeenranta | 1–4 August |
2020 | Turku | 13–16 August |
2021 | Tampere | 26–29 August |
2022 | Joensuu | 4–7 August |
2023 | Lahti | 29–30 July |
2024 | Vaasa |
Championships records
[edit]Women
[edit]Event | Record | Athlete | Date | Place | Ref |
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100 m hurdles | 12.79 (+1.0 m/s) | Annimari Korte | 14 August 2020 | Turku | [1] |
Pole vault | 4.72 m NR | Wilma Murto | 29 August 2021 | Tampere | [2] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Kendricks tops 5.81m in Leverkusen, Nedasekau leaps 2.33m". World Athletics. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ "Keely Hodgkinson Runs 400m PB At National Athletics League – Weekly Round-Up". mydmcsports.com. 30 August 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
External links
[edit]Media related to Finnish Championships in Athletics at Wikimedia Commons
- Finnish Athletics