Tiilimäki Sports Ground, Pori, Finland | July 10, 1921
Hannes Kolehmainen continues to run around the track tirelessly. In Pori, he clocked a time of 32:06.1 in the 10,000 metres run, ranking fourth in the 1921 world statistics. Against Nurmi, the Antwerp marathon winner did not dare to compete in the ten thousand metres at the Finnish Championships in August (due to injury) but warmed up by winning the Finnish title in the 25-kilometre race in early July.
Satakunnan Kansa, July 12, 1921 (in Finnish)
Suomen Urheilulehti, July 21, 1921 (in Finnish)
Pyynikki Sports Ground, Tampere, Finland | July 30-31, 1921
The success of Estonia in the decathlon is hardly surprising. A century ago, the bronze medalist from the second Olympic Games in Paris, Aleksandr Klumberg, was already reaching for the world’s top ranks. He later Estonianised his surname to Kolmpere.
He typically created a significant gap between himself and his competitors in the javelin, an event in which he competed at the international meet in Tampere in late July 1921. There, he defeated Urho Peltonen, the silver medalist from Antwerp. Klumberg threw a distance that placed him third in the world rankings (63.32m, 207-9), while Peltonen followed closely in fourth (62.25m, 204-3).
Tatu Kolehmainen won the 20,000-metre race, while his brother Hannes had to retire from the event.
Aamulehti, July 31, 1921 (in Finnish)
Aamulehti, August 2, 1921 (in Finnish)
Suomen Urheilulehti, August 4, 1921 (in Finnish)
Suomen Urheilulehti, August 11, 1921 (in Finnish)
Oslo/Kristiania, Norway | 7th August 1921
Norwegian pole vaulter Charles Hoff is starting to make a name for himself. He jumped 3.82m (12-6 1/2) at the championships of Kristiania, now known as Oslo, setting a Norwegian record and achieving the ninth-best pole vault result in the world rankings for the 1921 season. The following year, he would break the four-metre barrier.
Idrottsbladet, August 22, 1921 (in Swedish)
Stadion, Stockholm | September 21, 1921
As autumn arrived, a fierce competition took place at Stockholm's stadium over 800 metres. Britain's Edgar Mountain and the local Sven Lundgren charged across the finish line together, both clocking in at 1:54.3, sharing the second-best time in the world rankings. Mountain was ultimately declared the winner, while Lundgren could congratulate himself on setting a new Swedish record.
Idrottsbladet, September 26, 1921 (in Swedish)
Stade olympique de Colombes, Paris | November 1,1921
Finnish athletes have seldom produced world leading results in November. Olympic champion and world record holder Jonni Myyrä travelled to Paris in late autumn and set a world-leading mark of 64.12 metres (210-4) at the Colombes stadium on the first day of November.
Suomen Urheilulehti, November 11, 1921 (in Finnish)