Nurmi
Proper noun
Meaning
Nurmi (plural Nurmis)
A surname from Finnish.
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After excelling in mathematics,sfn Nurmi graduated as an engineer in 1923 and returned home to prepare for the upcoming Olympic Games.
As a contractor, Nurmi built forty apartment buildings in Helsinki with about a hundred flats in each. citation Within five years, he was rated a millionaire.
Born into a working-class family, Nurmi left school at 12 to provide for his family.
At his peak, Nurmi was undefeated at distances from 800 m upwards for 121 races.
As the unit commander Hugo Österman was a known sports aficionado, Nurmi and few other athletes were given free time to practice.
Boken om Nurmi (The Book about Nurmi), released in Sweden in 1925, was the first biographical book on a Finnish sportsman.