2016 Finnish Athletics Championships
Following are the results of the 2016 Finnish Athletics Championships. The games, known as ''Kalevan kisat'' in Finnish language, Finnish, were first held in Tampere in 1907. The 2016 events were held July 21st through 24th in Oulu. Results References

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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 Fin ...
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