Volmari Iso-Hollo

Volmari Iso-Hollo
Iso-Hollo at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
Full name	Volmari Fritijof Iso-Hollo
nation	Finland
birthday	January 5, 1907
place of birth	Ylöjärvi
size	176 cm
Weight	64 kg
date of death	June 23, 1969
Place of death	Heinola
Career
discipline	Obstacle course , long distance running
Best performance	30: 12.6 min ( 10,000 m ) 9: 03.8 min (3000 m obstacle)
society	Keravan Veikot, Helsingin Toverit , Keravan Urheilijat
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Los Angeles 1932 3000 m obstacle silver Los Angeles 1932 10,000 m gold Berlin 1936 3000 m obstacle bronze Berlin 1936 10,000 m

Volmari Fritijof "Vomma" Iso-Hollo (born January 5, 1907 in Ylöjärvi , † June 23, 1969 in Heinola ) was a Finnish athlete and two-time Olympic champion in the 3000-meter obstacle course .

biography

Iso-Hollo was one of the last in a line of Finnish long-distance runners nicknamed the "Flying Finns" because of their superiority between the two world wars. He spent his youth in Kerava , where Iso-Hollo tried cross-country skiing , gymnastics and boxing . When he joined the army, he started training in athletics . He competed in races at all medium and long distances, from 400 meters to marathons .

At the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , Iso-Hollo won his first gold medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. A possible world record was prevented because the officials were wrong about the number of laps they had run. The official lap counter was looking in the wrong direction because it would rather follow the decathlon pole vault competition . When Iso-Hollo reached the last round, the functionary forgot to ring the bell. The entire field continued for one lap until the runners were finally stopped after 3460 meters. If everything had gone right, Iso-Hollo would have broken the world record. A few days later, he won the silver medal in the 10,000 meter run .

In 1933 Iso-Hollo broke the world record in the 3000 meter obstacle course and ran a time of 9: 09.4 minutes. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , he was the top favorite. Iso-Hollo won the 3000 meter obstacle race with a new world record (9: 03.8 min); the first three had all beaten the old world record time. Iso-Hollo also competed over 10,000 meters and won a bronze medal.

Iso-Hollo suffered from rheumatism before the Berlin Games , but continued his career until 1945. He died at the age of 62. In his honor, a statue is placed in the square in front of the Kerava train station, right next to a business center named after him, and annual athletics competitions are held in Kerava in his name.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Historia. In: www.kerava.fi. Keravan kaupunki (Kerava City), accessed November 26, 2019 . 

Web links

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• Volmari Iso-Hollo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )