Finnish Olympic Committee
Encyclopedia
The Finnish Olympic Committee is the national Olympic committee in Finland
for the Olympic Games
movement. It is a non-profit organisation that selects teams, and raises funds to send Finnish competitors to Olympic events organised by the International Olympic Committee
(IOC).
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
for the Olympic Games
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
movement. It is a non-profit organisation that selects teams, and raises funds to send Finnish competitors to Olympic events organised by the International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
(IOC).
Presidents
- Reinhold Felix von Willebrand 1907-1919
- Ernst Edvard Krogius 1919-1929
- Kustaa Emil Levälahti 1929-1937
- Urho Kaleva KekkonenUrho KekkonenUrho Kaleva Kekkonen , was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland and later as the eighth President of Finland . Kekkonen continued the “active neutrality” policy of his predecessor President Juho Kusti Paasikivi, a doctrine which came to be known as the “Paasikivi–Kekkonen...
1937-1946 - Uuno Wilhelm Lehtinen 1946-1951
- Väinö Adolf Mathias Karikoski 1951-1956
- Yrjö Armas Valkama 1956-1961
- Johan Wilhelm RangellJohan Wilhelm RangellJohan Wilhelm Rangell was the Prime Minister of Finland from 1941 to 1943 . Educated as a lawyer, he was a close acquintance of President Risto Ryti before the war, and made his initial career as a banker in the Bank of Finland...
1961-1963 - Akseli Kaskela 1963-1969
- Juhani Ahti Uunila 1969-1984
- Carl-Olaf Homén 1984-1988
- Tapani Ilkka 1988-2004
- Roger Talermo 2004-