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The zone is placed at the [http://www.turku.fi/en/culture-and-sports/sports/sports-facilities/sports-centres/paavo-nurmi-stadium Paavo Nurmis stadion] that is located on the "Sampalinna" hill, one of the seven hills of [[Turku, Lounais-Suomi|Turku]].
==Paavo Nurmis stadionNurmi Stadium==
Paavo Nurmi Stadium (Finnish: Paavo Nurmen stadion, Swedish: Paavo Nurmis stadion) is a multi-use stadium in Turku, Finland. It is currently used mostly for football matches and athletics meets. It holds 13,000 people and is named after the Turku-born runner [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Nurmi Paavo Nurmi]. Twenty athletics world records have been set at the stadium. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Landy John Landy] broke the world records for the 1,500 m and the mile (1954), Nurmi for the 3,000 m (1922), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Z%C3%A1topek Emil Zátopek] (1950) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Clarke Ron Clarke] (1965) for the 10,000 m, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viljo_Heino Viljo Heino] for the one-hour run (1945) and the 20 km (1949), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_J%C3%A4rvinen Matti Järvinen] for the javelin throw (1932) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hoff Charles Hoff] for the pole vault (1925).
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