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Olavi Salsola (26 December 1933 in Keuruu – 8 October 1995 in Rauma) was a Finnish male middle distance runner.
Biography
In a fantastic evening of 1957, in the Finnish city of Turku, there was an extraordinary event (but also a strange coincidence), for the sport of athletics. Three Finnish athletes have gone under the previous world record of 1500 meters, all three were called by first name Olavi and all three were born in 1933. For this reason, the three athletes are today remembered as "the three Olavis".
World record
1500 metres: 3:40.2 - Turku, 11 July 1957
Olympic results
See also
1500 metres world record progression
References
External links
Olavi Salsola at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Athlete profile from site Track and Field Statistics
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Olavi Salsola
- Olavi
- 1500 metres world record progression
- Olavi Salonen
- 1500 metres
- Stanislav Jungwirth
- Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres
- Deaths in October 1995
- Paavo Nurmi
- 1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres
