Tatu Kolehmainen

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Tatu Kolehmainen athletics

Tatu Kolehmainen, William Scott 1912.jpg
Tatu Kolehmainen (left) at the 10,000-meter run at
the 1912 Olympic Games

Full name Taavetti Heikki Kolehmainen
nation Finland Grand Principality 1883Grand Duchy of Finland Grand Duchy of Finland until 1914 Finland (from 1914)
FinlandFinland 
birthday April 21, 1885
place of birth Kuopio ,  Finland
size 162 cm
Weight 55 kg
date of death June 15, 1967
Place of death Helsinki , Finland
Career
discipline Long distance running
Best performance 10,000 m: 32: 24.9 min; Marathon 2:29:08 h
society Helsingin Jyry; HKV Helsinki

Taavetti Heikki "Tatu" Kolehmainen (born April 21, 1885 in Kuopio , † June 15, 1967 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish long-distance runner. He was the older brother of the four-time Olympic champion Hannes Kolehmainen .

Kolehmainen took part in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm . In the 10,000 meter run, he qualified for the final with the third-fastest time. He ended the final itself prematurely, while his brother Hannes won the run. In addition, he started the marathon, which he did not finish either. In 1913 he ran a world record over 20,000 meters with 1: 07: 40.2 hours. After the war, he started at the Olympic Games in Antwerp at the age of 35 . He started again in the marathon, which Hannes Kolehmainen won. Tatu Kolehmainen was 11th and a half minutes behind.

At the Finnish championships, alongside Hannes Kolehmainen, Albin Stenroos was his strongest opponent. Tatu Kolehmainen won a total of five titles at Finnish athletics championships, nine times he was second and three times third.

Tatu Kolehmainen was 1.62 to 1.64 meters tall, depending on the source, and weighed between 54 and 57 kilograms. He was a member of the Kuopion Reipas (until 1907) and Kuopion Riento (1908) associations, later of Helsingin Kisa-Veikot . Then he was a member of Helsingin Jyry .

Finnish championships

  • 1908: 2nd place , 10,000 meters, behind Hannes Kolehmainen
  • 1909: 1st place , marathon, ahead of Viljami Kolehmainen and Albin Stenroos
  • 1910: 3rd place , 5,000 meters, behind Hannes Kolehmainen and Stenroos
  • 1910: 2nd place , 10,000 meters, behind Stenroos
  • 1910: 1st place , hourly run, together with Hannes Kolehmainen
  • 1911: 2nd place , 5,000 meters, behind Hannes Kolehmainen
  • 1911: 2nd place , 10,000 meters, behind Hannes Kolehmainen
  • 1912: 1st place , hour run, ahead of Karl Viisanen and Valfrid Hakala
  • 1913: 2nd place , 5,000 meters, behind Stenroos
  • 1913: 2nd place , 10,000 meters, behind Stenroos
  • 1914: 2nd place , 5,000 meters, behind Hjalmar Nyström
  • 1914: 1st place , 10,000 meters, ahead of Nyström and Heikki Liimatainen
  • 1915: 2nd place , 5,000 meters, behind Stenroos
  • 1915: 2nd place , 10,000 meters, behind Stenroos
  • 1916: 3rd place , 10,000 meters, behind Stenroos and Teodor Koskenniemi
  • 1919: 1st place , 25,000 meters, ahead of Aarne Kallberg
  • 1920: 3rd place , 10,000 meters, behind Liimatainen and Kalle Kytöniemi

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ saunalahti.fi: World Record progression in men's running events (accessed August 15, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Kolehmainen, Tatu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolehmainen, Taavetti Heikki (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuopio
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1967
Place of death Helsinki