Albin Stenroos

Albin Stenroos
Albin Stenroos (1910)
Full name	Oskar Albinus Stenroos
nation	Grand Duchy of Finland (until 1914) Finland (from 1914)
birthday	February 24, 1889
place of birth	Vehmaa ,  Finland
size	173 cm
Weight	64 kg
date of death	April 30, 1971
Place of death	Helsinki , Finland
Career
discipline	Long-distance running , cross-country running
Best performance	10,000 m: 32: 21.8 min; Marathon: 2:41:23 h
society	Helsingin Reipas; HKV Helsinki
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver Stockholm 1912 Cross-country team competition bronze Stockholm 1912 10,000 m gold Paris 1924 Marathon run

Albin Stenroos (* 24. February 1889 in Vehmaa , Finland ; † the thirtieth April 1971 in Helsinki , actually Oskar Albinus Stenroos ) was a Finnish long-distance runner and Olympic champion in the marathon .

Albin Stenroos was third in the national championships in his first marathon in 1909, but then switched to shorter distances.

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 , Stenroos won the bronze medal in the 10,000-meter run with a personal best , which his compatriot Hannes Kolehmainen won and was sixth in the cross-country competition and thus helped his team to second place in the cross- team classification.

In 1915 Stenroos set his first world record over 30 km (1: 48: 06.2 h), which he improved in 1924 (1: 46: 11.6 h). From 1923 it also held the record of 20 km (1: 07: 11.2 h).

Although he hadn't run a marathon for 15 years, Stenroos decided to compete in the 1924 Olympics in Paris and became Olympic champion in 2:41:22 hours by almost six minutes.

Finnish championships

• 5000 meters:
  • 1st place: 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916
  • 2nd place: 1910
  • 3rd place: 1917

• 10,000 meters:
  • 1st place: 1910, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916
  • 2nd place: 1917
  • 3rd place: 1918

• Marathon:
  • 3rd place: 1909

• Cross Country:
  • 1st place: 1915, 1916, 1917

Web links

• Article about the 1924 Olympic marathon on marathoninfo.free.fr (French)
• Albin Stenroos in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Albin Stenroo's best performances and results at Finnish championships