Finnish Championships in Athletics
- Finnish Championships in Athletics
The Finnish Championships in Athletics, which are known as "Kalevan kisat" in Finnish, were first held in Tampere in 1907. Since then, they have been held in a different location every year. In the beginning, women were not allowed to compete in the Finnish Championships.
The Kaleva Cup
In 1909, the personnel at the life insurance company "Kaleva" donated a trophy called the "Kalevan malja" or the Kaleva Cup to be awarded to and kept for until the next Championships by the team accumulating the most points during the competition.
In 1909, the Finnish Championships started to be informally referred to as the "Kaleva Games" because of the name of the cup. At the Championships held in Pori in 1915, the magazine Suomen urheilulehti started to call the competition the "Kaleva Games" in its headlines. In 1937, at the Championships held in Vyborg, the Finnish athletics federation called Finnish Athletics ("Suomen Urheiluliitto" in Finnish) formally declared the name of the Finnish Championships to be the Kaleva Games.
External links
* [http://www.sul.fi/ Finnish Athletics]
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