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Verner Järvinen

1870 - 1941

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Venne "Verner" Järvinen (3 April 1870 – 31 January 1941) was a Finnish track and field athlete, who competed mostly in throwing events. He won the gold medal in the Greek-style discus in the 1906 Intercalated Games, and the bronze in the 1908 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Finnish Olympic medalist in athletics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Verner Järvinen has received more than 16,210 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Verner Järvinen is the 628th most popular athlete (up from 784th in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from Finland (up from 309th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Finnish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Verner Järvinen ranks 628 out of 6,025. Before him are Yordanka Blagoeva, Alexandre Tuffère, Georgios Roubanis, Lindy Remigino, Naftali Temu, and Leo Sexton. After him are George Baird, Kurt Behrens, Jaan Kikkas, Axel Norling, Alan Helffrich, and Arthur Barnard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Verner Järvinen ranks 124. Before him are Grigory Gershuni, Emil Młynarski, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Antonius van den Broek, Yi Jun-yong, and Johan Ludwig Mowinckel. After him are John Isaac Briquet, Julián Besteiro, R. B. Bennett, Ivan Perestiani, Bautista Saavedra, and Nino Martoglio. Among people deceased in 1941, Verner Järvinen ranks 162. Before him are Leo Deutsch, Dmitry Lavrinenko, Źmitrok Biadula, Afife Jale, Vladimir Ćorović, and Princess Sophie of Luxembourg. After him are Yekaterina Zelenko, Franz von Werra, Masha Bruskina, Eduardo Schaerer, Luigi Capello, and Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Verner Järvinen ranks 272 out of 751. Before him are Eino Leino (1891), Kalle Anttila (1887), Heidi Hautala (1955), Ruben Lagus (1896), Paavo Johansson (1895), and Henrik Gabriel Porthan (1739). After him are Jukka Nevalainen (1978), Reino Kuuskoski (1907), Heikki Liimatainen (1894), Martti Marttelin (1897), Lauri Lehtinen (1908), and Aulis Kallakorpi (1929).

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Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Verner Järvinen ranks 28. Before him are Edvin Wide (1896), Veikko Kankkonen (1940), Armas Taipale (1890), Eino Penttilä (1906), Toivo Loukola (1902), and Paavo Johansson (1895). After him are Heikki Liimatainen (1894), Martti Marttelin (1897), Lauri Lehtinen (1908), Akilles Järvinen (1905), Siiri Rantanen (1924), and Viljo Heino (1914).

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