ATHLETICS
MORE RECORDS BY THE GREAT NURMI. *'" •
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NEW YORK, 6th January. Paavo Nurmi, the Finnish Olympic distance runner, opened an American indoor campaign by winning a mile in the world's record time of 4mm 13 2-3 sec, from a- field of six of America's best runners. He won by three yards from Joie Ray, the former United btates mile champion, and clipped a full second from the previouß record held by
Nurmi also made two other world's records, running 1500 metres in 3min 5B l-.ssec, and winning the 5000 metres in Umin 443 sec. These times are respectively 5 Z-ssec and lOsec better than Ray b former records. :
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 7
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ATHLETICS
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 7
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