Finnish Athletics Championships

The Finnish Athletics Championships, 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.

History
Edition Venue Dates
1907 Tampere 3–4 August
1908 Kuopio 29–30 August
1909 Helsinki 3–5 July
1910 Viipuri 2–3 July
1911 Tampere 15–16 July
1912 Turku 31 August–1 September
1913 Helsinki 19–20 July
1914 Helsinki 19–20 September
1915 Pori 14–15 August
1916 Helsinki 19–20 August
1917 Tampere 18–19 August
1918 Helsinki 31 August–1 September
1919 Turku 16–17 August
1920 Helsinki 3–4 July
1921 Kotka 20–21 August
1922 Helsinki 19–20 August
1923 Kuopio 18–19 August
1924 Lahti 23–24 August
1925 Viipuri 15–16 August
1926 Tampere 14–15 August
1927 Turku 20–21 August
1928 Helsinki 25–26 August
1929 Viipuri 17–18 August
1930 Tampere 16–17 August
1931 Helsinki 15–16 August
1932 Helsinki 6–7 August
1933 Turku 5–6 August
1934 Tampere 28–29 July
1935 Kotka 10–11 August
1936 Turku 22–23 August
1937 Viipuri 6–8 August
1938 Helsinki 6–8 August
1939 Helsinki 26–28 August
1940 Tampere 24–26 August
1941 – –
1942 Helsinki 29–30 August
1943 Helsinki 14–15 August
1944 Helsinki 23–24 September
1945 Turku 11–12 August
1946 Helsinki 10–12 August
1947 Tampere 16–18 August
1948 Vaasa 21–22 August
1949 Kymi 20–21 August
1950 Jyväskylä 12–13 August
1951 Helsinki 19–20 August
1952 Seinäjoki 23–24 August
1953 Pori 15–16 August
1954 Turku 12–13 August
1955 Kuopio 13–14 August
1956 Lahti 25–26 August
1957 Tampere 17–18 August
1958 Kouvola 2–3 August
1959 Helsinki 16–17 August
1960 Hämeenlinna 13–14 August
1961 Mikkeli 12–13 August
1962 Lappeenranta 18–19 August
1963 Turku 17–18 August
1964 Oulu 15–16 August
1965 Jyväskylä 7–8 August
1966 Tampere 13–14 August
1967 Pori 11–13 August
1968 Varkaus 16–18 August
1969 Helsinki 16–18 August
1970 Kouvola 14–16 August
1971 Oulu 23–25 July
1972 Joensuu 11–13 August
1973 Hyvinkää 10–12 August
1974 Jyväskylä 9–11 August
1975 Seinäjoki 18–20 July
1976 Turku 2–4 July
1977 Tampere 29–31 July
1978 Kokkola 4–6 August
1979 Helsinki 11–13 August
1980 Lappeenranta 4–6 July
1981 Oulu 7–9 August
1982 Kouvola 13–15 August
1983 Pori 1–3 July
1984 Kajaani 6–8 July
1985 Lahti 16–18 August
1986 Vaasa 25–27 July
1987 Kuopio 14–16 August
1988 Hämeenlinna 5–7 August
1989 Turku 28–30 July
1990 Oulu 3–5 August
1991 Helsinki 27–29 July
1992 Jyväskylä 3–5 July
1993 Mikkeli 30 July–1 August
1994 Tuusula 8–10 July
1995 Lapua 20–23 July
1996 Tampere 4–7 July
1997 Lappeenranta 17–20 July
1998 Oulu 6–9 August
1999 Seinäjoki 5–8 August
2000 Lahti 17–20 August
2001 Turku 6–8 July
2002 Joensuu 18–21 July
2004 Vaasa 30 July–1 August
2005 Pori 15–17 July
2006 Jyväskylä 21–23 July
2003 Helsinki 9–11 August
2007 Lappeenranta 3–5 August
2008 Tampere 24–27 July
2009 Espoo 31 July–2 August
2010 Kajaani 5–8 August
2011 Turku 4–7 August
2013 Lahti 23–26 August
2013 Vaasa 25–27 August
2014 Kuopio 31 July–3 August
2015 Pori 30 July–2 August
2016 Oulu 21–24 July
2017 Seinäjoki 20–23 July
2018 Jyväskylä 19–22 July
2019 Lappeenranta 1–4 August
2020 Turku 13–16 August
2021 Tampere
2022 Joensuu
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See also
  • Finnish records in athletics
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