Paavo Numrmi Games 2026 Final Entry Lists Published

Posted by: Watch Athletics

Tuesday, 02 June 2026

The start lists for the 2026 Paavo Nurmi Games, scheduled for Wednesday, June 3, have been released, revealing a world-class lineup for this year's World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Turku, Finland. The fields feature an impressive collection of Olympic and World Championships medalists, national record holders, and international stars across the track and field disciplines. With valuable ranking points, prize money, and early-season momentum on the line, fans can expect high-quality competition throughout the evening as some of the sport's biggest names take to the historic Paavo Nurmi Stadium. See the full stat lists below.

Men 100m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Eugene Amo-Dadzie	Great Britain	1992	9.87 -25	10.24
	Brandon Hicklin	United States	1999	9.93 -25	10.05
	Bayanda Walaza	South Africa	2006	9.94 -25	10.03
	Romell Glave	Great Britain	1999	10.00 -25
	Abdurahman Karriem	South Africa	2004	10.06 -25	10.18
	Taymir Burnet	Netherlands	1992	10.09 -24	10.30
	Jenns Fernández	Cuba	2001	10.11 -24	10.18
	Cheickna Traore	Ivory Coast	2000	10.15 -24	10.16
	Nsikak Ekpo	Netherlands	2003	10.16 -26	10.16
	Riku Illukka	Finland	1999	10.26 -21	10.39
	Eino Vuori	Finland	2002	10.32 -25	10.72
	William Thor	Sweden	2000	10.44 -24	10.60
	Zaid Lafine	Finland	2002	10.73 -25
	Rasmus Vuonoranta	Finland	2006	10.79 -25
Men 1500m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Håkon Moe Berg	Norway	2006	3:30.28 -25	3:33.41
	Ruben Verheyden	Belgium	2000	3:30.99 -25	3:32.38
	Pierrik Jocteur-Monrozier	France	1998	3:31.51 -25
	Romain Mornet	France	1997	3:31.62 -25	3:35.24
	Samuel Chapple	Netherlands	1998	3:31.65 -25	3:32.68
	Pieter Sisk	Belgium	1999	3:31.85 -25	3:33.32
	Jude Thomas	Australia	2002	3:31.87 -25	3:37.65
	Cathal Doyle	Ireland	1997	3:32.15 -25	3:39.72
	Foster Malleck	Canada	2001	3:32.38 -25	3:33.39
	Mohamed Attaoui	Spain	2001	3:32.63 -25	3:35.65
	Sam Prakel	United States	1994	3:33.08 -25	3:40.38
	Jack Anstey	Australia	1997	3:33.93 -25	3:35.26
	Wes Porter	United States	2001	3:35.02 -25	3:35.04
	Joonas Rinne	Finland	1995	3:35.20 -24	3:39.88
	Ben Claridge PACE	Great Britain	1997	3:41.78 -24
	Abedin Mujezinovic PACE	Bosnia-Herzegovina	1993	3:54.39 -18
Men 5000m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Getnet Wale	Ethiopia	2000	12:53.28 -21
	Egide Ntakarutimana	Burundi	1997	13:00.74 -24
	Brian Fay	Ireland	1998	13:01.40 -23	13:13.30
	Darragh McElhinney	Ireland	2000	13:02.06 -25
	Mike Foppen	Netherlands	1996	13:02.43 -25
	Mahadi Abdi Ali	Netherlands	1995	13:04.05 -25
	Scott Beattie	Great Britain	1998	13:04.99 -25	13:13.19
	Nick Griggs	Ireland	2004	13:05.75 -25	13:19.90
	James West	Great Britain	1996	13:09.07 -24
	Florian Bremm	Germany	2000	13:09.17 -25
	Filip Mangen Ingebrigtsen	Norway	1993	13:11.75 -19	13:30.09
	Kieran Lumb	Canada	1998	13:12.54 -25
	Joel Ibler Lillesø	Denmark	2003	13:14.98 -25
	Thomas Vanoppen	Belgium	1999	13:17.53 -25
	Rory Leonard	Great Britain	2001	13:22.46 -25	13:26.22
	Mustafe Muuse	Finland	2001	13:29.51 -26	13:29.51
	Eemil Helander	Finland	2001	13:40.15 -23	13:52.44
	Mika Kotiranta	Finland	2000	13:40.67 -22	13:48.67
	Tuomas Heikkilä	Finland	1998	13:40.79 -25
	Frederik Ruppert	Germany	1997	13:47.31 -25
	Filip Sasínek PACE	Czech Republic	1996	13:55.47 -23
	Duncan Gituku PACE	Kenya	1999	13:58.6h -25	14:17.4h
	Boaz Kiprugut PACE	Kenya	1998
Men 3000m Steeplechase
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Abraham Sime	Ethiopia	2001	8:02.36 -24	8:52.26
	Ahmed Jaziri	Tunisia	1997	8:08.02 -24	8:27.72
	Mohammed Tindoufti	Morocco	1993	8:10.62 -24	8:10.77
	Leo Magnusson	Sweden	1998	8:13.08 -24
	Jean-Simon Desgagnés	Canada	1998	8:13.11 -24
	Luc Le Baron	France	2002	8:13.70 -25	8:28.75
	Niklas Buchholz	Germany	1998	8:14.05 -25
	Daniel Michalski	United States	1995	8:14.07 -25	8:27.99
	Tim Van De Velde	Belgium	2000	8:14.40 -25	8:48.04
	Vidar Johansson	Sweden	1996	8:15.00 -25
	Ben Buckingham	Australia	1991	8:15.14 -25	8:27.67
	Aaron Ahl	Canada	1999	8:17.17 -25	8:24.08
	Velten Schneider	Germany	1999	8:18.12 -25
	Eero Heinonen	Finland	1997	8:46.96 -26	8:46.96
	Wilberforce Kones PACE	Kenya	1993	8:21.42 -21	8:47.23
	Wesley Langat PACE	Kenya	1994	8:26.04 -24	8:48.11
Men 400m Hurdles
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Berke Akçam	Türkiye	2002	48.14 -24	50.27
	Matic Ian Guček	Slovenia	2003	48.25 -25	48.40
	Bassem Hemeida	Qatar	2000	48.29 -25	48.77
	Assinie Wilson	Jamaica	2002	48.29 -26	48.29
	Alastair Chalmers	Great Britain	2000	48.30 -25	48.64
	Kemorena Tisang	Botswana	1995	48.42 -25	48.66
	Jake Minshull	Great Britain	2004	48.74 -25	48.87
	Tuomas Lehtonen	Finland	1998	50.20 -23	50.76
Men Pole Vault
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Emmanouíl Karalís	Greece	1999	6.17 -26	6.17
	KC Lightfoot	United States	1999	6.07 -23	5.91
	Sam Kendricks	United States	1992	6.06 -19	5.90
	Piotr Lisek	Poland	1992	6.02 -19	5.75
	Valentin Lavillenie	France	1991	5.85 -22	5.75
	Ben Broeders	Belgium	1995	5.85 -22	5.72
	Valters Kreišs	Latvia	2003	5.82 -25	5.80
	Simen Guttormsen	Norway	2001	5.80 -26	5.80
	Juho Alasaari	Finland	2003	5.71 -23	5.51
	Urho Kujanpää	Finland	1997	5.70 -24	5.48
Men Discus Throw
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Matt Denny	Australia	1996	74.78 -25	74.04
	Steven Richter	Germany	2003	74.00 -26	74.00
	Kristjan Čeh	Slovenia	1999	72.61 -26	72.61
	Lawrence Okoye	Great Britain	1991	71.88 -26	71.88
	Daniel Ståhl	Sweden	1992	71.86 -19	69.01
	Roje Stona	Jamaica	1999	70.66 -26	70.66
	Henrik Janssen	Germany	1998	69.94 -25	68.54
	Juho Suominen	Finland	2004	56.15 -26	56.15
U14 Boys 800m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Otso Aalto	Finland	2013	2:17.41 -25	2:17.99
	Benjamin Kero	Finland	2013	2:20.40 -26	2:20.40
	Lenni Kero	Finland	2013	2:22.38 -26	2:22.38
	William Söderblom	Finland	2013	2:25.33 -26	2:25.33
	Akseli Heinonen	Finland	2013	2:26.07 -26	2:26.07
	Luka Lehtilä	Finland	2014	2:34.00 -26	2:34.00
	Urho Tanttu	Finland	2013	2:34.88 -26	2:34.88
	Veikko Grusander	Finland	2014	2:35.97 -26	2:35.97
U12 Boys 800m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Volter Valtonen	Finland	2015	2:35.45 -26	2:35.45
	Niilo Järvinen	Finland	2015	2:36.08 -26	2:36.08
	Elias Anttalainen	Finland	2015	2:38.03 -26	2:38.03
	Julius Kelo	Finland	2015	2:40.75 -25	2:43.26
	Felix Kero	Finland	2015	2:42.41 -26	2:42.41
	Kuisma Salo	Finland	2015	2:43.18 -26	2:43.18
	Elias Vaittinen	Finland	2016	2:43.48 -26	2:43.48
	Oskari Uusitalo	Finland	2016	2:43.57 -26	2:43.57
U10 Boys 40m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Joel Samuelsson	Finland	2017	6.69 -26	6.69
	Robin Kauti	Finland	2017	6.73 -26	6.73
	Veikko Kojo	Finland	2017	6.85 -26	6.85
	Frans Suominen	Finland	2017	6.93 -26	6.93
	Juho Alapiessa	Finland	2017	6.94 -26	6.94
	Alexander Uzbjakov	Finland	2017	6.94 -26	6.94
	Vincent Valtonen	Finland	2017	7.03 -26	7.03
	Elias Laine	Finland	2018	7.11 -26	7.11
Women 100m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Anthaya Charlton	Bahamas	2003	10.87 -25	11.29
	Ajla Del Ponte	Switzerland	1996	10.90 -21	11.11
	Gina Lückenkemper	Germany	1996	10.93 -24	11.23
	Sade McCreath	Canada	1996	10.95 -25	11.06
	Maia McCoy	United States	1996	10.96 -25	11.11
	Minke Bisschops	Netherlands	2002	11.05 -25
	Boglárka Takács	Hungary	2001	11.06 -25	11.16
	Torrie Lewis	Australia	2005	11.08 -25	11.20
	Nora Lindahl	Finland	2004	11.50 -25
	Emma Tainio	Finland	2003	11.57 -25	11.88
	Tessa Moisio	Finland	2003	11.58 -26	11.58
	Priscilla Boateng	Finland	2005	11.77 -25	11.83
	Elmiina Siikala	Finland	2006	11.77 -25
	Milla Lindroos	Finland	2002	11.80 -25	11.87
Women 1500m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Gabriela DeBues-Stafford	Canada	1995	3:56.12 -19	4:02.17
	Dani Jones	United States	1996	4:00.64 -24	4:03.54
	Erin Wallace	Great Britain	2000	4:01.10 -25	4:04.01
	Kristiina Sasínek Mäki	Czech Republic	1991	4:01.23 -21	4:11.25
	Joceline Wind	Switzerland	2000	4:01.41 -26	4:01.41
	Diane van Es	Netherlands	1999	4:02.97 -25	4:14.43
	Lore Hoffmann	Switzerland	1996	4:04.22 -25	4:10.27
	Nathalie Blomqvist	Finland	2001	4:04.76 -24
	Amina Maatoug	Netherlands	2002	4:05.67 -25	4:09.36
	Majtie Kolberg	Germany	1999	4:06.06 -26	4:06.06
	Eveliina Määttänen	Finland	1995	4:12.08 -23
	Kena Tufa	Ethiopia	2005
	Julia Jaguścik PACE	Poland	2003	4:12.82 -26	4:12.82
	Rachel Klopfenstein PACE	Mauritius	1995
Women 3000m Steeplechase
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Alemnet Wale	Ethiopia	2006	9:06.88 -25	9:10.05
	Rihab Dhahri	Tunisia	2003	9:20.17 -25	10:13.15
	Marta Serrano	Spain	2003	9:21.00 -25	9:40.01
	Ilona Mononen	Finland	2003	9:21.02 -25
	Cara Feain-Ryan	Australia	1999	9:21.35 -26	9:21.35
	Kinga Królik	Poland	1999	9:22.14 -25
	Gracie Hyde	United States	1999	9:22.19 -26	9:22.19
	Veerle Bakker	Netherlands	1997	9:25.53 -25	10:05.26
	Grace Fetherstonhaugh	Canada	2000	9:28.42 -25	9:55.99
	Adia Budde	Germany	2005	9:32.14 -25	9:41.76
	Laura Maasik	Estonia	1993	9:44.20 -24	10:03.06
	Clara Entresangle	France	2004	9:47.95 -25
	Alisa Virtanen	Finland	2002	9:57.29 -25	9:58.89
	Agnieszka Chorzępa PACE	Poland	2001	9:41.87 -26	9:41.87
Women 100m Hurdles
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Rayniah Jones	United States	2001	12.59 -24	12.64
	Lotta Harala	Finland	1992	12.65 -24
	Michelle Jenneke	Australia	1993	12.65 -24	12.74
	Maayke Tjin A-Lim	Netherlands	1998	12.66 -23	12.86
	Luca Kozák	Hungary	1996	12.66 -26	12.66
	Sacha Alessandrini	France	1999	12.70 -25	12.70
	Anna Tóth	Hungary	2003	12.77 -25	12.79
	Elena Carraro	Italy	2001	12.79 -25	12.94
	Saara Keskitalo	Finland	2000	12.81 -25	12.86
	Ida Beiter Bomme	Denmark	2001	12.81 -26	12.81
	Vilma Mäki	Finland	2002	12.88 -25	13.48
	Kreete Verlin	Estonia	1997	13.11 -25
	Essi Vehmaa	Finland	2002	13.19 -25	13.71
	Sonja Stång	Finland	2002	13.31 -24	14.60
	Roosa Toivonen	Finland	2002	13.78 -25
Women High Jump
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Yuliya Levchenko	Ukraine	1997	2.02 -19	1.99
	Lamara Distin	Jamaica	2000	2.00 -24	1.96
	Ella Junnila	Finland	1998	1.97 -24	1.90
	Elena Kulichenko	Cyprus	2002	1.97 -24	1.91
	Louise Ekman	Sweden	1997	1.96 -26	1.96
	Solene Gicquel	France	1994	1.92 -23	1.92
	Heta Tuuri	Finland	1995	1.91 -24	1.80
	Ella Mikkola	Finland	2007	1.90 -25	1.88
Women Pole Vault
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Wilma Heltelä	Finland	1998	4.85 -22	4.60
	Imogen Ayris	New Zealand	2000	4.76 -26	4.76
	Gabriela Leon	United States	1999	4.75 -26	4.75
	Lene Onsrud Retzius	Norway	1996	4.73 -25	4.50
	Elina Lampela	Finland	1998	4.70 -25	4.21
	Kitty Augusta Friele Faye	Norway	2002	4.60 -26	4.60
	Hanga Klekner	Hungary	1999	4.60 -25	4.52
	Saga Andersson	Finland	2000	4.55 -25	4.50
Women Long Jump
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Ackelia Smith	Jamaica	2002	7.08 -23	6.81
	Jazmin Sawyers	Great Britain	1994	7.00 -23	6.58
	Monae' Nichols	United States	1998	6.97 -22	6.95
	Claire Bryant	United States	2001	6.96 -25	6.77
	Marthe Yasmine Koala	Burkina Faso	1994	6.94 -23	6.77
	Nia Robinson	Jamaica	2001	6.82 -26	6.82
	Taika Koilahti	Finland	1998	6.69 -19	6.40
	Molly Palmer	Great Britain	2003	6.68 -26	6.68
	Vilma Itälinna	Finland	2003	6.29 -23	6.02
Women Shot Put
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Jessica Schilder	Netherlands	1999	21.09 -26	21.09
	Chase Jackson	United States	1994	20.95 -25	20.46
	Sarah Mitton	Canada	1996	20.68 -24	20.42
	Danniel Thomas-Dodd	Jamaica	1992	19.77 -23	19.34
	Fanny Roos	Sweden	1995	19.66 -25	19.45
	Katharina Maisch	Germany	1997	19.25 -25	19.03
	Alina Kenzel	Germany	1997	18.91 -25	18.19
	Emilia Kangas	Finland	2001	18.42 -25	18.29
	Senja Mäkitörmä	Finland	1994	17.76 -25	17.28
Women Hammer Throw
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Camryn Rogers	Canada	1999	81.13 -26	81.13
	Janee' Kassanavoid	United States	1995	78.00 -22	68.96
	Krista Tervo	Finland	1997	77.35 -26	77.35
	Silja Kosonen	Finland	2002	77.07 -25	76.40
	Sara Fantini	Italy	1997	75.77 -22	73.40
	Katrine Koch Jacobsen	Denmark	1999	75.52 -26	75.52
	Rose Loga	France	2002	75.19 -26	75.19
	Guðrún Karítas Hallgrímsdóttir	Iceland	2002	73.88 -26	73.88
	Aileen Kuhn	Germany	2003	72.53 -25	72.11
	Suvi Niiranen	Finland	1997	71.10 -23	66.23
U14 Girls 800m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Kaisla Salo	Finland	2013	2:26.00 -26	2:26.00
	Jemina Jälkö	Finland	2013	2:27.57 -26	2:27.57
	Tytti Juselius	Finland	2013	2:32.07 -26	2:32.07
	Anni Korpi	Finland	2014	2:33.50 -26	2:33.50
	Ida Vorselman	Finland	2014	2:37.84 -26	2:37.84
	Liina Knuuti	Finland	2013	2:38.73 -26	2:38.73
	Liina Lehtonen	Finland	2014	2:42.30 -26	2:42.30
	Aino Halminen	Finland	2013	2:43.42 -26	2:43.42
U12 Girls 800m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Helmi Kork	Finland	2015	2:28.70 -26	2:28.70
	Martta Kankare	Finland	2015	2:35.82 -26	2:35.82
	Edith Manneroos	Finland	2015	2:39.45 -26	2:39.45
	Pihla Jänkälä	Finland	2015	2:44.28 -26	2:44.28
	Pihla Kumpuniemi	Finland	2015	2:46.86 -26	2:46.86
	Eeva Björk	Finland	2015	2:51.13 -26	2:51.13
	Sanni Laine	Finland	2015	2:52.45 -26	2:52.45
	Livia Mäkinurmio	Finland	2016	2:52.90 -26	2:52.90
U10 Girls 40m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Taika Tuominen	Finland	2017	6.67 -26	6.67
	Lilian Hellsten	Finland	2017	6.71 -26	6.71
	Tilda Vähämaa	Finland	2018	6.72 -26	6.72
	Meri Turkulainen	Finland	2019	6.96 -26	6.96
	Emma Hänti	Finland	2017	7.04 -26	7.04
	Aino Korhonen	Finland	2017	7.04 -26	7.04
	Alma Ruohomaa	Finland	2017	7.15 -26	7.15
	Isla Kotanen	Finland	2017	7.18 -26	7.18
Para events
Para 100m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
1	Antti Hovi T38	Finland		12.98
2	Dany Richnau T20	Finland		13.13	13.13
4	Aamu Hulmi T38	Finland		14.52
5	Vilma Berg T38	Finland		14.73
6	Neea Sahlström T38	Finland		17.51	18.91
7	Iida Lounela T12	Finland		13.36
8	Pyry-Hermanni Lahtinen T13	Finland		12.08
Wheelchair 100m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Esa-Pekka Mattila T54	Finland		14.08	14.10
	Tuomo Himanka T54	Finland		15.02
	Henry Manni T34	Finland		15.22	15.68
	Amanda Kotaja T54	Finland		15.36	15.36
	Niko Ristiranta T54	Finland		15.40
Wheelchair 400m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Esa-Pekka Mattila T54	Finland		49.52	49.80
	Henry Manni T34	Finland		50.09	50.27
	Niko Ristiranta T54	Finland		50.51
	Amanda Kotaja T54	Finland		53.14	53.28
	Tuomo Himanka T54	Finland		54.51
Extra events
Men 800m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Ville Lampinen	Finland	1994	1:46.78 -22
	Justus Korvenpää	Finland	2008	1:49.62 -26	1:49.62
	Aleksi Kivelä	Finland	2000	1:50.05 -23	1:55.63
	Lauri Mononen	Finland	2007	1:50.87 -25	1:53.23
	Joona Heiskanen	Finland	2005	1:51.14 -24	1:52.39
	Daniel Lundmark	Finland	1998	1:51.26 -25
	Antton Launto	Finland	1990	1:52.29 -17	1:56.97
	Lassi Kuva	Finland	2000	1:52.82 -25	1:56.70
	Sisu Saarinen	Finland	2009	1:53.10 -26	1:53.10
	Sisu Moilanen	Finland	2005	1:54.53 -24	1:57.51
	Jerry Vilenius	Finland	2007	1:55.68 -26	1:55.68
Men 400m Hurdles
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Jere Haapalainen	Finland	2004	50.02 -23	52.05
	Tuomas Lehtonen	Finland	1998	50.20 -23	50.76
	Jaakko Linnus	Finland	2003	51.00 -24	52.94
	Joni Vainio-Kaila	Finland	1994	51.09 -15
	Benjamin Stendahl	Finland	1999	52.37 -24	53.04
	Sakari Vallius	Finland	2003	52.90 -25
	Tomas Jatsko	Finland	2002	53.84 -25	53.86
	Riku Uusitalo	Finland	2005	53.86 -25	54.72
Women 800m
	Name	Country	Yeard	PB	SB
	Ronja Koskela	Finland	2003	2:05.46 -22
	Helmi Vuorimaa	Finland	2000	2:06.13 -23
	Veera Mensonen	Finland	1999	2:06.94 -24	2:09.25
	Hannah Anderson	Finland	2002	2:07.04 -26	2:07.04
	Inka Peltola	Finland	2007	2:09.59 -24	2:22.55
	Taimi Vallinoja	Finland	2007	2:10.06 -25	2:13.16
	Laura Laukka	Finland	1994	2:10.39 -25	2:14.92
	Winnie Markén	Finland	2008	2:11.22 -24	2:11.86
	Ilona Pulkkinen	Finland	1998	2:11.38 -24	2:14.83
	Minea Lindén	Finland	2005	2:12.00 -25	2:14.33
	Klaara Mertsalo	Finland	2008	2:12.34 -25
	Iida Verainen	Finland	2003	2:22.78 -24