Iivari Rötkö
Personal information | |
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Born | 26 January 1893 Grand Duchy of Finland |
Died | 1957 (aged 64) Finland |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Long-distance running |
Club | Jyry Helsinki (–1930) Toverit Helsinki (1931–1932) |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 10,000 m – 31:57.4 (1926) 25,000 m – 1:25:14 (1928) Marathon – 2:34:25 (1926) |
Iivari (Ivar) Rötkö, born 26 January 1893, died 1957, was a Finnish long-distance runner. He was the holder of the 25,000 meter run world record and the 1926 best year performance in marathon.
Career
Rötkö won the 25,000-metre race at the 1925 Workers' Summer Olympiad in Frankfurt am Main. In September 1926 he ran the best marathon performance of the season, 2:34:25. Rötkö was also ranked fourth in the 10,000-metre run, preceded by the Finns Paavo Nurmi and Eino Rastas and the Chilean Manuel Plaza.[1] In 1928, Rötkö set the world record 1:25:14 in 25,000 metres. He was one of the favourites to win the marathon at the 1928 Summer Spartakiad in Moscow, but the Finnish authorities denied his passport application.[2]
Three years later Rötkö defected from the left-wing Finnish Workers' Sports Federation (TUL) to the bourgeois Finnish National Sports Federation (SVUL) in order to race the marathon at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. At the time, the sports in Finland was split in two, the TUL and SVUL athletes did not compete with each other and the Finnish Olympic Team was composed of SVUL athletes only. Rötkö failed to enter the Olympics as he completed fifth in the qualifications and soon decided to end his career at the age of 39.[2]
References
- ^ Iivari Rötkö Profile Track and Field Statistics. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
- ^ a b Syrjäläinen, Antti: Miksi siksi loikkariksi? Huippu-urheilijoiden loikkaukset TUL:sta SVUL:oon 1919–1939, p. 148. Joensuu University Press, Joensuu 2008. ISBN 978-952-219-137-3 (PDF version)
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- 1921: Florestano Benedetti (ITA)
- 1922: Gabriel Ruotsalainen (FIN)
- 1923: Aksel Jensen (DEN)
- 1924: Shizo Kanaguri (JPN)
- 1925: Sam Ferris (NIR)
- 1926: Iivari Rötkö (FIN)
- 1927: Verner Laaksonen (FIN)
- 1928: Boughera El Ouafi (FRA)
- 1929: Harry Payne (GBR)
- 1930: Fukutaro Shibui (JPN)
- 1931: Juan Carlos Zabala (ARG)
- 1932: Tanji Yahagi (JPN)
- 1933: Kozo Kusunoki (JPN)
- 1934: Tamao Shiaku (JPN)
- 1935–36: Sohn Kee-chung (JPN)
- 1937: Manuel Dias (POR)
- 1938: Pat Dengis (USA)
- 1939: Toyu Ko (KOR)
- 1940: Shoichiro Takenaka (JPN)
- 1941: Les Pawson (USA)
- 1942: Zaiten Kimoto (JPN)
- 1943: Gérard Côté (CAN)
- 1944: Charles Robbins (USA)
- 1945: Sven Håkansson (SWE)
- 1946–48: Mikko Hietanen (FIN)
- 1949: Salomon Könönen (FIN)
- 1950: Feodosy Vanin (URS)
- 1951: Veikko Karvonen (FIN)
- 1952–54: Jim Peters (ENG)
- 1955: Veikko Karvonen (FIN)
- 1956: Paavo Kotila (FIN)
- 1957–59: Sergei Popov (URS)
- 1960: Abebe Bikila (ETH)
- 1961: Takayuki Nakao (JPN)
- 1962: Yu Mang-Hyang (PRK)
- 1963: Buddy Edelen (USA)
- 1964: Abebe Bikila (ETH)
- 1965: Morio Shigematsu (JPN)
- 1966: Michael Ryan (NZL)
- 1967: Derek Clayton (AUS)
- 1968–69: Bill Adcocks (ENG)
- 1970: Ron Hill (ENG)
- 1971: Derek Clayton (AUS)
- 1972: Frank Shorter (USA)
- 1973: John Farrington (AUS)
- 1974: Ian Thompson (ENG)
- 1975: Bill Rodgers (USA)
- 1976: Waldemar Cierpinski (GDR)
- 1977: Bill Rodgers (USA)
- 1978: Shigeru So (JPN)
- 1979: Bill Rodgers (USA)
- 1980: Gerard Nijboer (NED)
- 1981: Robert de Castella (AUS)
- 1982: Alberto Salazar (USA)
- 1983: Robert de Castella (AUS)
- 1984: Steve Jones (WAL)
- 1985: Carlos Lopes (POR)
- 1986: Robert de Castella (AUS)
- 1987: Takeyuki Nakayama (JPN)
- 1988: Belayneh Dinsamo (ETH)
- 1989: Juma Ikangaa (TAN)
- 1990: Steve Moneghetti (AUS)
- 1991: Kōichi Morishita (JPN)
- 1992: David Tsebe (RSA)
- 1993: Dionicio Cerón (MEX)
- 1994: Cosmas Ndeti (KEN)
- 1995: Sammy Lelei (KEN)
- 1996: Martín Fiz (ESP)
- 1997: Khalid Khannouchi (MAR)
- 1998: Ronaldo da Costa (BRA)
- 1999: Khalid Khannouchi (MAR)
- 2000: António Pinto (POR)
- 2001: Josephat Kiprono (KEN)
- 2002: Khalid Khannouchi (USA)
- 2003: Paul Tergat (KEN)
- 2004: Felix Limo (KEN)
- 2005–08: Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)
- 2009: Duncan Kibet (KEN)
- 2010–11: Patrick Makau Musyoki (KEN)
- 2012: Geoffrey Mutai (KEN)
- 2013: Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich (KEN)
- 2014: Dennis Kipruto Kimetto (KEN)
- 2015: Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)
- 2016: Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)
- 2017–18: Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)
- 2019: Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)
- 2020: Evans Chebet (KEN)
- 2021: Bashir Abdi (BEL)
- 2022: Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)
- 2023: Kelvin Kiptum (KEN)