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Jonni Myyrä

1892 - 1955

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Joonas "Jonni" Myyrä (13 July 1892 – 22 January 1955) was a Finnish athlete who competed at the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Olympics. In 1912, he finished eighth in the javelin throw. At the 1920 Olympics, his left arm was fractured in a warm-up accident – the spear thrown by James Lincoln struck Myyrä while he was resting on the grass. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonni Myyrä has received more than 26,477 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Jonni Myyrä is the 299th most popular athlete (up from 403rd in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Finland (up from 224th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Finnish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jonni Myyrä ranks 299 out of 6,025. Before him are Yevgeny Grishin, Albert Tyler, Micheline Ostermeyer, Henri Deloge, Camille Mandrillon, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. After him are Luigi Beccali, Bobbie Rosenfeld, Juan Carlos Zabala, Sándor Rozsnyói, Henry Russell, and Nancy Mackay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Jonni Myyrä ranks 179. Before him are Vladimir Stoychev, Konstantin Fedin, József Nagy, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Lola Anglada, and Trafford Leigh-Mallory. After him are Fritz Kortner, Mahadev Desai, Kiyotake Kawaguchi, Luis Trenker, Elmer Rice, and Pierre Frieden. Among people deceased in 1955, Jonni Myyrä ranks 105. Before him are Helena Roerich, Louis Leon Thurstone, Karl Hofer, Guy Ropartz, Emmanuel de Martonne, and Jenő Fuchs. After him are Robert E. Sherwood, Theodor Plievier, Saadat Hasan Manto, Willi Baumeister, Manny Ayulo, and Honus Wagner.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Jonni Myyrä ranks 176 out of 751. Before him are Paavo Berglund (1929), Johan Ehrnrooth (1833), Lauri Virtanen (1904), Rafael Paasio (1903), Hertta Kuusinen (1904), and Vilho Niittymaa (1896). After him are Marita Lindahl (1938), Alexi Laiho (1979), Eero Berg (1898), Juho Sunila (1875), Elmer Niklander (1890), and Leevi Madetoja (1887).

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Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Jonni Myyrä ranks 14. Before him are Elias Katz (1901), Ilmari Salminen (1902), Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907), Juhani Suutarinen (1943), Lauri Virtanen (1904), and Vilho Niittymaa (1896). After him are Eero Berg (1898), Elmer Niklander (1890), Armas Toivonen (1899), Julius Skutnabb (1889), Harri Larva (1906), and Pertti Karppinen (1953).

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