Pyynikki Sports Ground. Tampere, Finland, September 27, 1925
At the end of September, one of the season's toughest European invitational competitions was held in Tampere. The long-distance runners, in particular, provided a spectacle. A crowd of 2000 had gathered by the side of the field, which Aamulehti considered disappointingly small. Many stayed home, presumably due to rain. Paavo Nurmi won the 5000 with the season's fifth-fastest time globally. Nurmi himself only ran the 5000 meters faster twice during 1925.
Nurmi took the lead right from the gun but couldn't establish a huge gap to the main pack, from which local favorite Eero Berg began to pull away six laps before the finish. He finished less than ten seconds behind Nurmi, running a personal best of 15:01.0 for second place.
The pace was also respectable in the 10,000. Yrjö Jussila was only about ten seconds slower (32:01.3) than his personal best (31:50.6) clocked in Turku a couple of weeks earlier. Jussila's time in Tampere was the ninth-best globally for the season.
Vilho Tuulos's good form continued. The Antwerp Olympic champion produced the season's seventh-longest triple jump mark globally on his home field. The scoreboard showed 14.82 (48-7½).
Aamulehti, September 29, 1925 (in Finnish)
Idrottsbladet, September 29, 1925 (in Swedish)