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Sulo Nurmela

1908 - 1999

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Sulo Nurmela (13 February 1908 – 13 August 1999) was a Finnish cross-country skier. He won a gold medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics in the 4 × 10 km relay and served as the Finnish flag bearer at those games. Nurmela won two world titles in 1934: in the individual 18 km and 4 × 10 km relay events. While traveling to Czechoslovakia to the next world championships he became ill with a high fever and had to withdraw from his individual races. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sulo Nurmela is the 1,372nd most popular athlete (down from 1,353rd in 2019), the 358th most popular biography from Finland (up from 377th in 2019) and the 64th most popular Finnish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Sulo Nurmela ranks 1,372 out of 6,025. Before him are Loren Murchison, Olga Bondarenko, Pierre Trentin, Erik Abrahamsson, Kenneth Lane, and Johan Edman. After him are Kálmán Markovits, Dorothy Manley, Harry Blackstaffe, Hermann Hansen, Dieter Kottysch, and Håkan Malmrot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Sulo Nurmela ranks 354. Before him are William Thompson, Mikhail Somov, Sergey Urusevsky, Demetrio Neyra, Théodore Nouwens, and Miguel Otero Silva. After him are Jack Gilford, Erik Almgren, Bram Fischer, Franklin Farrell, Henri Lepage, and Tauno Palo. Among people deceased in 1999, Sulo Nurmela ranks 245. Before him are Dana Plato, Liselott Linsenhoff, Eric Wolf, Yuriy Istomin, Sufia Kamal, and Paul-Émile de Souza. After him are Faith Domergue, Robert Kramer, Nicholas Metropolis, Mel Tormé, Samiha Khalil, and Georges Gandil.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Sulo Nurmela ranks 358 out of 751. Before him are Pentti Hämäläinen (1929), Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921), Arvo Haavisto (1900), Mikko Kozarowitzky (1948), Kaarlo Kangasniemi (1941), and Klaes Karppinen (1907). After him are Päivi Meriluoto (1952), Claes Andersson (1937), Kurt Wires (1919), Lassi Parkkinen (1917), Tauno Palo (1908), and Harri Kirvesniemi (1958).

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Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Sulo Nurmela ranks 64. Before him are Yrjö Hietanen (1927), Viljo Heino (1914), Pentti Linnosvuo (1933), Sirkka Polkunen (1927), Pentti Hämäläinen (1929), and Kaarlo Kangasniemi (1941). After him are Päivi Meriluoto (1952), Kurt Wires (1919), Väinö Ikonen (1895), Eero Kolehmainen (1918), Toimi Alatalo (1929), and Kaarlo Tuominen (1908).

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