Stockholm Stadium, 20–21 August 1927
In typical 1920s fashion, the Swedish Championships saw world-class results in long-distance events. Nils Eklöf, whom Paavo Nurmi famously refused to race against, won the Swedish 5000-metre championship after a solo run. His winning time of 14:52.8 was just about seven seconds off the world-leading mark, which Eklöf had run a couple of weeks earlier. The Swede had set himself a pace aiming for 14:35, but his speed started to drop after three kilometres.
In the 10,000, the entire blue-and-yellow leading trio ranked among the season's top 10. Bror Öhrn won with a time of 31:58.6, placing him sixth in the world rankings, right behind Ville Ritola. Eric Stenfeldt, who had been beaten by Finland's Paavo Nurmi and Eero Berg in the first Finnkampen in 1925, jogged to second place, and Bror Eriksson finished third. The level of competition in Sweden was high, as a main pack of seven fellows only began to break up in the final 2000 metres.
Olle Hallberg, who was battling for the title of best European long jumper, won the long jump with a Swedish record and the season's second-best European result of 7.47 (24-6). He faced strong competition a couple of weeks later from Finland's Martti Tolamo in the Sweden–Finland international match.
In the hammer throw, the world-class duo of Ossian Skiöld and Carl Johan Lind battled for victory. Skiöld hurled the season's fifth-longest throw of 51.43 (168-9), securing his third consecutive championship. Lind, who had dominated the Swedish hammer scene before Skiöld's reign, took silver.
Winners (Wikipedia)