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Paavo Nurmi, who was one of the most successful athletes at the Summer Olympics, brought Finland a total of nine gold medals in the 1920s.


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Ville Ritola won four gold and two silver medals from the Paris Olympics.


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The three are also referred to by the nickname “The Flying Finn”.


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[13] The most recent Finn to win an Olympic title is Lasse Virén, who is the only one to win both the 5000 and 10000 m running distances in successive Olympic Games.


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Virén is particularly well remembered for the Summer Olympics in Munich, where he crashed in the 10000 m but nevertheless managed to run for gold with a new world record time.


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[14] Finland's success sports also include javelin throw, where Olympic gold has been won by Julius Saaristo, Jonni Myyrä, Matti Järvinen, Tapio Rautavaara, Pauli Nevala, Arto Härkönen, Tapio Korjus and Heli Rantanen.


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The World Javelin Throw Championship has been won by Tiina Lillak, Seppo Räty, Kimmo Kinnunen, Aki Parviainen and Tero Pitkämäki.


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[15] Winter sports alongside athletics, traditional success sports for Finland have been cross-country skiing and ski jumping.


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As athletics success wanes in these sports, success has come until these days.


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In the 1990s and 2000s, success has also come in alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, snowboarding and curling.


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[16] Finnish skiers who have achieved at least three personal race victories in cross-country skiing are Veli Saarinen from the 1930s, Veikko Hakulinen and Eero Mäntyranta from the 1950s and 1960s, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi and Marjo Matikainen from the 1980s and Mika Myllylä from the 1990s .


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Women's skiing was in the Olympic programme for the first time in 1952 and at that time Finnish women skied a triple victory [17].


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In Mäkihypy Finland has achieved success since the 1950s.


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Tauno Luiro jumped the ski jumping length record 139 metres in March 1951, which remained the world record for ten years, [18] Matti Pietikäinen was the first Finn to win the world championship 1954, [19] Hemmo Silvennoinen's Central European Hill Week 1955 [20] and Antti Hyvärinen Olympic gold in 1956.


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[21] Finland's most successful ski jumper of all time is Matti Nykänen, who secured four Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver, six world titles including one from the flyhill, and four World Cup overall competition victories and 46 sectional victories.


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[22] Janne Ahonen has won the Central European Hill Week overall race a record five times and has two personal world titles and three team world titles.


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Team competition in ski jumping entered the Values Program in 1982, and by 1997 Finland won eight championships out of 12 possible.


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[23] In the combined Heikki Hasu won Olympic gold in 1948 and world championship in 1950.


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[24] Samppa Lajunen won both personal sport and third gold medal from team competition at the Salt Lake City Olympics 2002.


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[25] In addition to Hasu, the personal world title in the combined has won Paavo Korhonen 1958 [26] and Hannu Manninen 2007.


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[27] The World Team Competition Championship Finland has won in 1999 and 2007.


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[28] In Alpine skiing, Kalle Palander has won the world title in slalom in 1999 and Tanja Poutiainen achieved Olympic silver and four World Championship medals in the 2000s.


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Both have been successful at the World Cup as well.


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[29] [30] In biathlon Finland's first successors were the 1960 Olympic silver medalist Antti Tyrväinen and the 1961 world champion Kalevi Huuskonen.


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In total, the Finns have achieved six Olympic medals.


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Heikki Ikola is a four-time world champion from 1975—1981, and Juhani Suutarinen holds three world titles from 1974—1975.


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[31] In the 2000s, the world title has been won by Paavo Puurunen in 2001 [32] and Kaisa Mäkäräinen in 2011.


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[33] Mäkäräinen has won the overall World Cup competition in the 2010—11 and 2013—14 seasons.


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[34] Freestyle skier Janne Lahtela won the world championship in rubber in 1999 and Olympic gold in 2002.


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Mikko Ronkaisen has Olympic silver and two world titles from the same sport.


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In snowboarding, Roope Tonteri has won three world titles and Antti Autti two, and Olympic medals have been promoted to Markku Koski 2006, Peetu Piiroinen 2010 and Enni Rukajärvi 2014.


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In curling, the top moment for the Finns was the 2006 Olympic silver for the men's team [35].


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Speed skating was one of the Finns' first successes: Gustaf Estlander skated as European Champion in 1898, Fredrik Wathé World Champion 1901 and Johan Wikander European Champion 1905.


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[36] The most successful Finnish speed skater is Clas Thunberg, whose achievements include five Olympic gold medals, five world titles and four European titles from the 1920s and early 1930s.


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[37] Other Olympic champions include Julius Skutnabb from 1924 and Kaija Mustonen from 1968.


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[38] After Thunberg, Birger Wasenius 1939, Verné Lesche 1939 and 1947, Lassi Parkkinen 1947, Eevi Huttunen 1951, Juhani Järvinen 1959 and Leo Linkovesi, who won the world sprinters championship in 1972.


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[39] In figure skating, married couple Ludovika Jakobsson — Walter Jakobsson won Olympic gold in pair skating in 1920 and Olympic silver four years later, as well as three world titles.


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[40] The only Finnish prestige medalist in men's single skating is Marcus Nikkanen from the 1930s.


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[41] The most successful Finnish pair in ice dancing is Susanna Rahkamo — Petri Kokko, who has two World Championship medals and a European Championship from the 1990s.


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In women's single skating, the best Finnish moments have been in the 2000s, with Laura Lepistö's European Championship 2009 and the World Championship bronze in 2010 [42] [43].


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In formation skating, three different Finnish teams have won a total of eight world titles since 2002.


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In total, Finland has received 20 World Championship medals.


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[44] The Finnish championship in Bandy began to be played in 1908.


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The first artificial ice field was completed in Oulunkylä, Helsinki in 1977.


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[45] In the World Championships started in 1957, Finland has won gold once, in 2004.


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[46] Before World War II, all championships went to Vyborg and Helsinki [47], but since then successful clubs have also been found in Varkaus and Oulu and in the 2000s Tornio.


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[48] Ice Hockey Finland played its first ice hockey ground game in 1928, and in the same year the first Finnish championship was decided.


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The Finnish Ice Hockey Federation was founded in 1929.


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[49] Finland first participated in World Cup competitions in 1939 [50] and Olympic ice hockey in 1952.


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[51] The first artificial ice field was completed in Tampere in 1956 [52] and the first ice rink in the same city in 1965, when Finland first hosted the World Cup. <ref>GreatIce Hockey Work, p. 83—84. </ref> Withits first Olympic medal, a silver, Finland achieved in Calgary in 1988.


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The men's national team for the second Olympic silver achieved in 2006, with bronze as a result in 1994, 1998, 2010 and 2014.


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[51] At the World Championships, the men's national team achieved its first medal in Prague 1992 by finishing in silver, and the world championship team won in 1995 in Stockholm and in 2011 in Bratislava.


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[50] [53] At the World Cup, Finland finished second in 2004 and in its predecessor, the Canada Cup, third in 1991.


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In the medal table at the World Championships, Finland is sixth with two championships, seven silvers and three bronzes.


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[50] Women's ice hockey was introduced into the Olympic program for the 1998 Games, where the Finnish women's team achieved bronze.


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The bronze achievement was renewed in 2010.


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In the Women's World Cup competitions, Finland has finished 11 times for bronze during the years 1990—2015.


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This qualifies for third place in the marathon table of World Championship competitions.


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At the now-defunct European Championships, the women's team won gold in 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1995.


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[54] A new organisation, SM-liiga, was established as the organiser of the domestic main series in 1975.


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[55] The most successful clubs in the main league history are from Tampere: TBK/Tappara 17 and Ilves have won 16 titles.


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Tapparalla has the highest number of championships in the league and the Turkulais team with TPS, ten.


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Helsinki-based Jokerit has played since 2014 in the multinational KHL league.


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[56] Veli-Pekka Ketola and Heikki Riihiranta were the first Finnish players to move from Finnish series to America to become professionals.


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They were washed out by the Winnipeg Jets of the WHA League in 1974.


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[57] The first NHL player to learn discus in Finland was Matti Hagman, who transferred to the Boston Bruins in 1976.


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[58] By the end of the 2014—15 season, 182 Finnish players have played in the NHL.


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[59] Jari Kurri and Teemu Selänne are in the top 20 on the all-time points and scorers exchange in the league's regular season, and in the points and goals statistics for the playoffs, Kurri is third.


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[60] Kurri was the NHL regular season top scorer in the 1985—1986 season, as well as the top scorer of the playoffs in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1988.


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[61] Kurri and Esa Tikkanen have won the Stanley Cup five times.


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Alpo Suhonen was the first European NHL coach.


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[62] [63] Motorsports See also: Formula One and Finnish Motorsports gained popularity in Finland with the birth of rally racing in the 1950s.


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In the 1960s, Finnish rally drivers began to dominate international competitions.


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Drivers have maintained their high standard to this day, making Finland the most successful country ever by the World Rally Championship Series.


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Finland has 13 Rally World Championships, the most successful of which Juha Kankkunen and Tommi Mäkinen both have 4 titles.


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[64] Neste Rally Rally, the event held in Finland, attracts 270000 spectators annually.


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[65] The most popular forms of motorsport in Finland are Formula One racing.


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F1 racing gained popularity in the 1980s when Keke Rosberg was the first Finn to win the F1 World Championship in 1982.


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The popularity of the series peaked in the late 1990s when Mika Häkkinen won the world title consecutively in 1998 and 1999.


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[64] The four Finnish world titles bring the country to a shared fifth place in the farm statistics — according to the BBC, this makes Finland the best F1 country in the world in terms of population.


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[66] Motorcycling has also gained popularity in Finland.


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The pinnacle of track motorcycling was set in the early 1970s, when Jarno Saarinen won the track motorcycling world championship.


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MotoGP made headlines again in the 2000s, when Mika Kallio has driven the World Cup series and finished twice for World Championship medals.


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[67] Most success has come from enduro, where Finns mainly in the 1990s and 2000s have been the top countries of the sport.


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Of the Finns, Kari Tiainen and Juha Salminen are the sport's most successful athletes ever.


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Juha Salmisen has a total of 13 personal world titles.


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[68] Football Finland was one of the weakest football countries in Europe from the late 1920s to the 1980s.


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Since the 1990s, Finland has risen to the lower middle caste of the continent, on the one hand, because the number of Finnish professionals playing in high league teams abroad has increased, inter alia, due to looser EU regulations, on the other hand, due to numerous new small countries entering European football.


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Finland has never made it on the men's side to a World Cup or European Championship tournament.


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[69] In the FIFA rankings, the Finnish women's national team is ranked 16th at best (between 2004 and 2010) and the men's team 36th (in 2007) [69] Football overtook ice hockey and in 2014 was the most prestigious sport in Finland for the first time.


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[70] Still, the popularity of the main series, or Veikkausliiga, is modest in comparison with the main series in other Nordic countries, for example.


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The viewership average of the Veikkausliiga is around 3000, while for example the viewership average of the Norwegian main league is over 9000.


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Still, Finland has seen some top footballers, including Jari Litmanen and Sami Hyypia.


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The Finnish women's national team has survived to the 2005, 2009 and 2013 European Championships, and in 2005 the team advanced all the way to the semi-finals.


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At its best, the men's national team has finished fourth in the Olympics at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.


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[71] [72] [73] Other ball sports Basket, flight and handball were introduced to Finland in the 1920s, [74] when the competition activities of pesäpallo developed by Lauri Pihkala were also started.


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[75] The men's basketball team has played in the Olympic Games in addition to their home games in 1952 in 1964.


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In the World Cup competitions, the national team first played in 2014.


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At the European Championships, Finland is best placed sixth in 1967.


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The men's volleyball team has finished ninth at the World Championship competitions in 2014 and fourth at the European Championships in 2007.


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The SM-sarja of men's basketball (now Korisliiga) began to be played in 1939.


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[76] The most successful club is the Helsinki-based Panthers with 14 championships, 13 of which date back to the 1940s and 1950s.


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Also, the next most successful clubs are from the metropolitan area.


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[77] The northernmost clubs that won the men's Finnish championship are Tampereen Pyrintö and Joensuun Kataja, who won the title only in the 2010s.


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The northernmost club that won the Finnish Women's Championship is Huima of Äänekoski.


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The men's basketball team first advanced to World Cup competitions in 2014.


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In the European Championships, it has played 15 times, being the best of sixth.


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The women's national team has progressed with a best of 11 at the European Championships.


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Both men's and women's SM-series were started in volleyball in 1957, and the sport's own federation was founded in 1959.


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[78] Since the early years, the longest men's SM-series has been dominated by Eastern Finnish clubs, seven consecutive championships between 1975 and 1981 won by Pieksämäki's NMKY and six consecutive championships from 1991 to 1996 and a total of eight titles won by Kups Volley.


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In the 2000s, the championship has gone four times to Rovaniemi.


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The Women's Finnish Championship has been won nine times by Vartiokylä's Wartti/Käpylän Volleyball Players and Vasama from Vaasa.


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In the early part of the 2000s, Vanajan Racing Club (formerly Hämeenlinnan Tarmo-Volley) won eight championships and between 2009 and 2015 LP Viesi Salo seven consecutive championships.


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The Finnish Handball Championship has been played since 1944.


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The sport has been strongly restricted to southern Finland; the northernmost SM-sarja locality is Tampere, where the main series was last played in the 1950s.


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[79] The most successful club in men's SM-sarja is Karjaan BK-46 and Helsinki IFK of the Finnish Women's SM-sarja.


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[80] The Helsinki Bowling Federation was founded in 1924 to promote bowling, and in the same year Finland's first bowling alley was completed in Helsinki.


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[81] The Finns won their first world title in 1926.


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The first Finns to win the personal world title was Kalle Aluku in 1958 and Mika Koivuniemi in 1991.


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[82] The floorball club, which developed from Sähly, was founded in 1985, and the first SM-sarja season was 1986—1987.


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The men's main series is the floorball league, whose most successful club is the Vikings from Helsinki with 11 championships.


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The Finnish men's national team has won the world title in 2008 and 2010, and the women's national team has played to become champion in 1999 and 2001.


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Both national teams are the second most successful national team in World Cup competitions after Sweden.


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[83] [84] Strength sports Wrestling was a success sport for Finns in the early part of the 20th century.


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The first club of the sport was the Helsinki Athletic Club, founded in 1891, and the Finnish Championships were first held in 1898.


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[85] Verner Weckman won his series at the Athens Intermediate Olympics in 1906 and achieved Finland's first official Olympic victory two years later in London.


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[86] In total, the Finns won twenty Olympic gold medals in wrestling between 1908 and 1936, including thirteen in Greco-Roman wrestling and seven in free wrestling.


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From the post-World War II period, Finland has six wrestling golds, including five from the Greco-Roman wrestling form.


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[87] The most recent Finnish world champion is Marko Yli-Hannuksela from 1997, but the Finns have won European titles in the 2000s.


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Finnish boxing competitions were started in 1923.


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[88] Finnish Olympic champions are Sten Suvio from 1936 and Pentti Hämäläinen from 1952.


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[89] However, the most famous Finnish boxer of the 1930s was Gunnar Bärlund, who on the professional boxing heavyweight list qualified as the second challenger to world champion Joe Louis.


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[90] The first Finnish to win the professional world title was Olli Mäki, who lost in a World Cup match to Davey Moore at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in August 1962.


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[91] Mäki is the only Finn to have won both the European Amateur and Professional Championship.


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[92] The World Amateur Medal has been achieved by Tarmo Uusivirta 1978 and 1982, Jyri Kjäll 1993 [93] and Joni Turunen in 1995 and 2001.


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The biggest star in women's boxing is Eva Wahlström, who in 2015 was the first Finnish to win the professional boxing world title.


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[94] The first Finnish weightlifting competitions took place in 1904.


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[95] The first Finnish European champion was Eino Mäkinen in 1955 [96] and the first world record holder Jaakko Kailajärvi in 1962.


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[97] Kaarlo Kangasniemi is the only Finnish Olympic champion in weightlifting from 1968, [98] and the following year he became the sport's first Finnish world champion.


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In Judo, Finland's only World Cup medal has been achieved by Juha Salonen, who finished in 1981 for bronze in heavyweight.


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[99] In Karate the first Finnish world title was won by Jukka-Pekka Väyrynen in 1982.


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[100] The most successful Finnish karateka is Sari Laine, who won seven European titles in personal standings in addition to her one world title between 1987 and 1996.


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[101] Other summer sports Gymnastics arrived in Finland in the early 19th century.


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The first gymnastics club was Helsingfors Turnförening, founded in 1875, and SM-competitions have been held since 1916.


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[102] Ale Saarvala won Olympic gold on a sleigh as the first Finnish gymnast in Berlin 1936.


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In 1948, Finland was the best gymnastics country at the London Olympics, and uniquely Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen and Heikki Savolainen shared a horse race victory between them.


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The most recent Finnish gymnastics Olympic champion is Eugen Ekman, who won the horse in Rome in 1960.


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[103] The most recent Finnish world champion is Jani Tanskanen, who won the sleigh race in 1997.


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[104] In team gymnastics, the most recent women's world championship was 2017 with Tampere Gymnasts Minetit team.


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Before that, the world championship in Finland came last in 2015, when Tampere Gymnasts Minetit brought gold with them.


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[105] The sport of shooting originated through hunting.


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The Finnish Hunting Association was founded as the first shooting club in Finland in 1865, and the first SM-competitions were held in 1907.


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[106] Finns achieved several world titles starting in 1929, especially in rifle sports.


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[107] The first Finnish Olympic champions were pistol shooters Pentti Linnosvuo and Väinö Markkanen in 1956 and 1964, [108] and after them Olympic gold has only been achieved by shotgun shotgun shooter Satu Mäkelä-Nummela in 2008.


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[109] Swimming began to be practiced as a sport in Finland in the 1870s, and the first swimming club was established in Turku in 1880.


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The Finnish Swimming Federation was founded in 1906, and in the same year the Finnish Championships were started.


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The first swimming pool was completed in Helsinki in 1928.


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[110] Arvo Aaltonen achieved two Olympic bronzes in breaststroke in 1920, and in the 1990s Antti Kustoo achieved bronze in freestyle [111] and Jani Sievinen silver in medley.


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[112] Kustoo and Sievinen won gold at the World Long Track Championships in 1994, [113] and the third world champion is Hanna-Maria Seppälä from 2003.


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[114] Toivo Reingoldt was the first Finnish European champion in 1931, and the following were expected until the 1990s.


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[115] The first Finnish world champion in Canoeing was Maggie Kalka in 1938.


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[116] The Finns achieved their first Olympic medals in 1948, and at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Finland was the best country in canoeing with four gold medals, one silver and one bronze.


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Since then, only Mikko Kolehmainen has been promoted to Olympic gold in Barcelona 1992.


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[117] In rowing, Finland achieved its first Olympic medals in 1952—1960 with two- and four-man boats.


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Pertti Karppinen won three Olympic gold medals in the units between 1976 and 1984 [118] and is also the only Finnish world champion in the sport from 1979 and 1985.


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[119] Support for athletes Financial support In the early stages of a sports career, the athlete or his family pays for practically everything necessary to play sports themselves.


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As the career progresses, the club might pay some of the training costs.


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The sport federation supports camp expenses for national team teams.


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The Finnish Olympic Committee supports dozens of top athletes.


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The Ministry of Education and Culture distributes athlete grants from betting funds to athletes who are thought to have potential for international success.


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[120] Such a training and training grant may be eligible for up to EUR 20000.


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[121] In order to enable young athletes to combine high school studies and top sports coaching, 12 sports high schools have been established in Finland.


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[122] Conscript service can be performed at the Finnish Defence Forces Sports School, which is responsible for enabling motivated and talented athletes to undertake systematic coaching alongside military training.


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[123] In sponsorship cooperation, the company finances the expenses of an athlete, team or sporting event as part of its marketing communications.


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[124] Sports sponsorship in Finland decreased between 2010 and 2013.


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[125] Since 2013, it has increased again.


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The most sponsored sport is ice hockey, which was subsidised in 2014 for €45 million, a third of the €128 million in support the sport receives from sponsors.


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[126] After a sports career, an athlete may be awarded an additional state athlete pension in recognition of the gold medal he received at the Olympic Games.


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[127] Coaching The role of the coach is to help the athlete achieve their personal best.


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The coaching process involves planning, exercise execution, training management, and monitoring development and giving feedback.


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Basically, fake managers work more in the realm of competitive sports, but in many sports, instructors in children's recreational physical education are also called coaches.


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In Finland, coaching and guidance activities are mostly voluntary activities, although professionalism is increasing.


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There are approximately 1000—2000 professionals, while about 173,000 volunteers serve as coaches and instructors.


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[128] Sports coaching is, for some, a profession that can be studied along many different training paths.


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Physical education counseling can be studied at the University of Applied Sciences or on a primary school basis (then Physical Education Advisor).


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The University of Jyväskylä graduates Masters in Sport Sciences.


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The Coach Professional Qualification and Specialist Professional Qualification are professional display qualifications.


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The display degree may be based on work experience, [129] but it can also be based on courses organised by species' associations.


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[130] Excellence in Finnish coaching is represented by six top sports coaching centres working together with the Olympic Committee.


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[131] Sporting events organised in Finland are regularly held in Finland and Finnish sports organisations apply for several prestigious competitions each year.


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[132] Between 2000 and 2005, Finland hosted more than 100 international prestige competitions in Olympic sports.


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[133] The most notable sporting event held in Finland is the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.


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The World Championships in Athletics have been held in 1983 and 2005.


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The European Athletics Championships have been held three times in 1971, 1994 and 2012 in Helsinki.


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[134] The Men's World Ice Hockey Championships in Finland have been held in 1965, 1974, 1982, 1991, 1997, 2003 and in 2012 and 2013 shared with Sweden.


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[135] Women's World Cup competitions have been held in Finland in 1992, 1999 and 2009.


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[136] Women's European Football Championships have been held in Finland 2009.


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[137] Fitness Sports According to a study conducted in 2009-2010, 92 per cent of Finnish children and adolescents engage in some form of physical activity.


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The activities of sports clubs involve 424,000 children and young people, or 43 per cent of Finland's 3 to 18 years old.


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However, the most common way to exercise is outside of companionship activities in children's and adolescents' own groups of friends.


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Regardless of the place of hobby, the most popular sport is football.


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[138] Fifty-five per cent of adults said in a study conducted in 2009-10 that they do physical activity at least four times a week.


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The proportion of people who move has increased over the past ten years, with walking becoming the most common of the forms of exercise.


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Given the duration and strenuous nature of physical activity, two thirds of adults move adequately in relation to health recommendations.


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Major sports facilities included light traffic fairways, outdoor trails, and gymnasiums.


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[139] Species practiced by more than half a million people aged 19 to 65 include walking, cycling, gym training, skiing, running and gymnastics.


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[139] There are 9000 active sports clubs in Finland.


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In ice hockey, there are 438 member clubs, three thousand teams, more than 66,000 license players and about 194,000 active enthusiasts.


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The Finnish Ball Association has 1,000 member clubs with a total of 113,000 registered players.


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The floorball union has approximately 850 member clubs, 2200 teams and 45000 license players.


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Other popular sports in clubs include volleyball and golf.


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[140] Mass events The Finlandia skiing event, held since 1974, participated in over 5000 skiers in 2014.


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[141] In 1984, it was the largest mass skiing event in the world with around 13,000 competitors, as recorded in the Guinness Great Book of Records.


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[142] Large numbers of people participate in long-distance running events.


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A dozen marathons with more than 1,000 participants are held each year.


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The largest of them is the Helsinki City Run with over 12000 runners (2013).


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[143] Women's Ten has been running since 1982, with a maximum of 32000 women taking part in 1990.


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[144] Suurrowing in Sulkava has been organised since 1968.


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Today, more than 10,000 rowers participate in the four-day event each year and, according to the organisers, it is the largest rowing event in the world.


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The length of the route around Partalan Island is 60 or 70 kilometres.


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[145] Bench sports According to the national physical activity survey conducted in 2005—2006, 75% of Finland's adult population consider the international success of Finnish athletes important.


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[146] The most interesting sports in Finnish opinion are hockey, athletics and skiing, according to interview surveys conducted between 2006 and 2015.


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The following species have varied according to the success of the Finns, with the popularity of ski jumping decreasing and the popularity of biathlon.


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Formula One racing has also been on the cusp for many years.


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[147] In Finland, more sports are viewed on television than in other Nordic countries, as the biggest sports competitions are usually seen on free-to-air channels.


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Among the ten most-watched programmes in 2014, up to half were sports value race broadcasts.


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[148] In the 21st century, ratings on the ground have fallen.


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[149] [150] The largest sports grandstand in Finland is the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland with around 40000 spectators.


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There are also grandstands in Tampere, Turku, Pori and Sonera Stadium in Helsinki.


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[151] [152] [153] [154] The largest jumping hills in Finland are in Rukka and Lahti.


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[155] Sportswoman of the Year has been chosen by the Federation of Sports Journalists since 1947.


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[156] History The early years of sport in Finland In the 19th century, a lifestyle promoting body culture, health and physical activity spread to Finland from Central Europe.


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Gradually, the sport began to spontaneously organize itself.


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The first Finnish sports club, Segelföreningen i Björneborg, was founded in Pori in 1856.


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[157] However, competitive sports in Finland are considered to have started with the sport of racing when State Driving was founded in 1865.


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Coaching guidelines, record statistics, sports medicine, international competition contacts, and newspaper sports writings also originated in horse racing, from which they spread to other sports.


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[158] Competitive sports began to become more common towards the end of the 19th century.


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The first general ski races were held in Tyrnäva on 23 March 1879.


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[159] Abroad Finns first competed in 1892 in Stockholm, where Finnish skiers led by Juho Ritola took a triple victory in the 30 km journey.


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[160] At the end of the 19th century, there were 341 sports clubs or subdivisions in Finland where more than twenty sports forms were practiced.


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The most popular sports forms were shooting, sailing, skating, gymnastics and skiing.


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[161] In 1898 skated in Helsinki for the European Championship, and the European championship was later taken by the Finnish architect Gustaf Estlander.


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The first world champion in Finnish sport was also a speed skater when Fredrik Wathén won the world title in Stockholm 1901.


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[162] The breakthrough in Finnish top sports made at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, when endurance runner Hannes Kolehmainen won three golds and a silver.


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He was said to have “run on the world map of Finland”.


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[163] Organisations and central associations of the Finnish Reich Sports Association SVUL served as the largest umbrella organisation for Finnish sports and sports activities between 1906 and 1994.


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It developed into an organization of approximately 1.2 million person members and 4,300 member clubs.


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[164] In connection with the 1918 Finnish Civil War, the SVUL sacked all those clubs that had too close links to the Red Guards.


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The separated clubs founded the Finnish Workers' Sports Association.


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[165] The Confederation of Labour Sports Clubs (TUK) was founded in 1959 by clubs that separated from or separated from the Labour Sports Association.


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TUK merged back into TUL in 1979, its member clubs joining either SVULS or TUL.


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[166] [167] In the early 1990s, the SVUL was dissolved and the Finnish Exercise and Sports Association was established.


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TUL's confederation status ceased and TUL's competitive sports joined sport federations.


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The 2012 Nationwide Exercise and Sports Organisation Valo was established to continue the activities of SLU.


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The TUL continued to operate outside of it, with the major ball-playing and team sport federations opting out of the Light.


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The Light merged with the Olympic Committee in 2017.


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[168] [169] [170] [171] [172] See also Finnish Sports Hall of Fame Finnish Olympic Committee Finnish Sports Association Finnish Sports Association Finnish Ski Federation List of Finnish endurance racing medalists List of Finnish endurance racing medalists List of people caught doping Finnish athletes Finland at the Summer Olympics Finland at the Winter Olympics Finland national football team History of football Finnish basketball History of Finnish basketball Sources Literature Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Pihlaja, Juhani| title = Sports manual| publisher = Data port| year = 1994}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Rowan, Juhani| title = SM Ball competition| location = Vammala| publisher = Data port| year = 2005| id = ISBN 951-97170-1-3}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Arponen, Antti O. etc.| title = Winter Sports Stars| publisher = WSOY| year = 1986| id = ISBN 951-0-13095-8}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Eljanko, Harri & Variainen, Jussi| title = History of Finnish skiing | publisher = WSOY| year = 1969}} Citation, error replace with {{cite book| author = Vahtola, Jouse| title = History of Finnish ski jump| publisher = Society of Finnish literature| year = 2012| id = ISBN 978-952-222-313-5}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Lounasheimo, Announce| title = Heroes| publisher = WSOY| year = 1987| id = ISBN 1-0-13981-5} } Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Siukonen, Markku, etc.| title = Great hockey work 1| year =}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Siukonen, Markku, etc.| title = Great ice hockey work 2| year =}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Lahti Ti, Janne & Paavola, Juha| title = Finnish Ice Hockey Leions| year =}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Kostiainen, Pasi| title = Finns in the NHL| year =}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Rannisto, Kimmo (Mon.


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On the trail of sporting heroism.


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Helsinki: Book Workshop, 2009.


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It was fought from 29 February 1992 to 21 November 1995 between Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks, or Bosnian Muslims.


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Nationalist Serbs started the war because Muslim-Croat-led Bosnia gained independence from Serb-led Yugoslavia, and Serbs wanted to keep all Serbs in the same state.


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The most famous war events are probably the Siege of Sarajevo by the Serbs and the massacre of Srebrenica, which targeted Bosniaks.


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The war was more severe than the Croatian war, as in Bosnia-Herzegovina the different nationalities were patchwork interspersed with each other.


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Thus many fronts emerged among three different national-political factions.


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In addition, local chiefs of the same nationality could wage war against each other.


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For example, thousands of Serbs fought on the Muslim side, which is why it is more correct to call Bosnian government forces Bosniaks than Muslims.


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In the Bosnian War, ethnic cleansing involving mass deportations, killing, pillaging, arson, house blows up, torture and rape were more widespread than in the Croatian war.


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Bosniaks were confined en masse to concentration camps, where thousands of them died.


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Concentration camps were not closed, although the Serbs promised to do so.


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The big-nationalist Serbs justified their Muslim-Bosniak purges by the fact that Islam threatened to spread to Yugoslavia and Europe, whereby the Serbs had to halt the Muslim advance [1] even with violence.


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Croats and Muslims also engaged in purges for their part.


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In the siege of Sarajevo, dozens of Bosniak civilians were killed in some isolated Serb grenade attacks.


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Although the war was outwardly a confusing tangle of fighting between different factions, Slobodan Milošević launched it with the idea of creating a Greater Serbia in the disintegrating Yugoslavia by driving Muslims, Croats and other nationalities out of large areas.


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At the beginning of the Bosnian War, Muslims and Croats collaborated to defeat the Serbs, but soon the ultra-nationalist Croats started a war against Muslims as well.


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Eventually Croats and Muslims reached an agreement and fought victoriously against the Serbs until peace was reached.


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In total, more than 100,000 people were killed in the war, mostly Bosniaks.


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Background History The Islamic, Turkic Ottoman Empire spread to Bosnia in the 15th century.


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In the following centuries, many Slavs in the region converted to Islam.


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When the Ottoman withdrew from Bosnia-Herzegovina, the region fell under Austro-Hungarian control.


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This also saw Croatia's western influence extend to Bosnia.


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In this case, Bosnia became a patchwork of nationalities, which was like Yugoslavia in miniature.


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Preceding events, Tito's Yugoslavia was mired in economic difficulties in the late 1980s.


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The cause of nationality rose to the surface in the various constituent republics, especially among Serbia and scattered Serbs living in Yugoslavia, acquired bigoted characteristics.


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Serbs wanted to keep all Serbs in the same state, and they felt their rights were being trampled by other nations.


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So they drove either Serb-led Yugoslavia or Greater Serbia.


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These were taken to independence by the national movements of Slovenia and Croatia in the summer of 1991.


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The war in Slovenia, and especially Croatia, also foreshadowed war in Bosnia.


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The political situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina held the first multi-party elections on 18 November 1990.


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Support for Ante Marković's multinational party, representing a united Yugoslavia, was low [2].


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The most votes were received by the nationalist parties that pushed for the interests of the various popular groups.


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None of the parties supported Bosnia's independence at this point, but Radovan Karadzic's SDS declared its opposition to Bosnian secession [3].


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There was much debate about sovereignty within Yugoslavia [3].


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The largest parties in the elections were Bosniak Socialist Action Party SDA (Stranka Demokratske Akcije) as leader of anti-communist and lawyer Alija Izetbegović, Serb Democrat Party SDS (Srpska Demokratska Stranka, psychiatrist and Serb nationalist Radovan Karadžić, party affiliations with the Socialist Party led by Slobodan Milošević of Serbia [2]) and Croatian Democratic Union of Croats (HDZ, Stjepan Kljuić, a party practically sister party to the Croatian party of the same name, but with line differences over the Croatian party [3]).


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Even before the elections, Muslims feared the rise of old enemies between Serbs and Croats [4].


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Muslims considered Croats closer to Serbs because of the killing of Muslims by Serb Cetniks in Foca during World War II [4].


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The HDZ and the SDA, or Bosniaks and Croats, generally cooperated at that time in Bosnia-Herzegovina [4].


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The Communists were also prepared for more than a federal state if necessary [5].


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The SDA gained 41, SDS 34 and HDZ 20 seats [5].


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The Communists won 10 and Ante Marković's Union of Reform Forces 11 seats.


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Thus, 95 out of 130 MPs were supported by national parties of different nations [5].


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The 7-member Council of Presidents came to the head of the Muslim Alija Izetbegovic, as the SDA won the most votes [5].


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From the Serb side, Biljana Plavsic and Nikola Koljevic [4] entered the Council of Presidents.


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Even before the start of the Bosnian War, the Serbs occupied a large area around Banja Luka, the so-called Bosanska Krajina [6].


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In June 1991, Muslims arrested Milan Martic, “Interior Minister” of Krajina, the Serb region of Croatia, who had been leading Serb forces exercises in Bosnia.


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Martic was soon released by the regime, lest war begin in Bosnia [6].


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When the Croatian War began, the situation in Bosnia was known to be close to explosion.


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On 16 December 1991, due to the warring situation in Croatia, the EC pledged to recognise those states on the territory of the former Yugoslavia which fulfilled the conditions of the Badinter Committee.


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This created pressure for Bosnia-Herzegovina's declaration of independence and war, as the Serbs opposed gaining independence.


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The Serbs wanted to avoid war in Bosnia for a while, as the war was still raging in Croatia.


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Thus, the Serbs did not have to use their powers on two battlegrounds at once.


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Prior to Croatia's declaration of independence, Serbs established Bosanska Krajina, a Serb autonomous community in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the surroundings of Banja Luka.


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This and other established Serb territories (SAO) comprised about half of the area of Bosnia-Herzegovina.


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Bosnia-Herzegovina's Serbs were mostly armed by the Yugoslav Federal Army in 1991, and the Serb party SDS declared Bosnian Serb regions as autonomous communities in May.


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Federal Army troops retreating from Croatia settled in Bosnia.


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Signs of war Bosnia-Herzegovina drifted to the brink of war as early as autumn 1991.


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In July, Serbian arms supplies to Bosnia-Herzegovina Serbs were revealed, and in early June militias from Krajina, Croatia's Serb region, held exercises on the Bosnian side.


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In reality, the Sarajevo government controls only a small part of the country.


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By the beginning of September, four Serb autonomous communities had already been established in Bosnia-Herzegovina requesting the protection of the Yugoslav Federal Army.


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Three Columns of the Federal Army arrived in the country.


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By the autumn the signs of war were clear, at the same time there was fierce fighting in Croatia.


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Bosniak leader Alija Izetbegović asked the UN to come to Bosnia, but the UN did not agree as Bosnia was officially not in a state of war.


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In the fall of 1991, Croats in West Herzegovina refused to give their weapons to the Yugoslav Federal Army.


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On September 19, the Federal Army moved additional troops around Mostar, something the city administration publicly opposed.


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On 30 September, the Federal Army destroyed a small Croat-inhabited village called Ravno in Herzegovina by the JNA.


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In Višegrad with barricades and machine-fire weapons, Muslims and Croats stopped a federal army detachment of about 60 tanks for a while, but the army drove them out with 1000 inhabitants the following day [7] However, these incidents were not immediately followed by violence expansion.


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On 18 November, Croats in Herzegovina established their own “Herzeg-Bosna Croat Community” (Hrvatska Zajednica Herceg-Bosna), which drove the Croat cause in the region.


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In the autumn, the Serb army moved in Bosnia-Herzegovina [8] and, among other things, Dubrovnik was attacked partly from Eastern Herzegovina [9], and tension between the peoples grew.


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In October, the EC expressed support for a confederation once proposed by Slovenia and Croatia [10], supported by the Muslim Itzetbagovic, probably believing the EC would help.


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In October, Croats and Bosniaks (mainly Muslims) voted a joint Serb party game and declared Bosnia-Herzegovina sovereign, causing Serbs to walk out of parliament.


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Karadzic felt that Yugoslavia was the only internationally recognized state, and that Muslims and Croats were trying to capture power in Bosnia, and that Serbs remain in Yugoslavia [10].


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In the sovereignty decision, Bosnia-Herzegovina would be part of the lax confederation of Yugoslavia only if Croatia was also involved [10].


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Karadzic said Serbs would restore legal order in the spirit of the Yugoslav constitution [10].


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Serb leader Karadžić threatened Muslims with massacre should Bosnia-Herzegovina become independent [11].


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Soon the Serbs established their own parliament, which left Bosnia-Herzegovina firmly in the context of Yugoslavia.


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To the idea of Bosnian sovereignty, Karadžić was sharply negative.


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Here, too, the SDS wanted to keep the Serbs under the same sphere of state power.


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In December 1991, the Yugoslav Federal Army and Serb paramilitaries were ready for war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.


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The EC recognised Slovenia and Croatia in January 1992 under German pressure [8].


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In January 1992, Stjepan Kljuić, the moderate leader of the Bosnian Croat nationalist HDZ party, ducked aside, giving way to the towering Mate Boban, who represented the West Herzegovinian faction and Franjo Tuđman.


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Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina received some weapons from Croatia, although the country itself had a shortage of weapons.


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Croatia was shelled and attacked from Bosnia-Herzegovina.


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War Events The beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina had a few scattered clashes as early as September 1991.


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A wide variety of gun guards of a volunteer nature had sprung up in the country.


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The strength of the Bosniak police was increased, and the Serbs declared the autonomous community they had established would break away from the Bosniak state should the country become independent.


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In December 1991, Radovan Karadžić, a leading Serb politician in Bosnia-Herzegovina, even threatened Muslims with destruction when war breaks out.


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Karadzic also said the federal army would intervene if the country becomes independent from Yugoslavia.


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Nationalist Serb propaganda blamed Bosnian Muslims and Croats [12].


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Serbs showed propaganda by Serb nationalist officers on television in which Muslims and Croats were defamed [13].


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According to these television programs, Serbs came to avenge the wrongs committed to them by Muslims and Croats over hundreds of years [13] because the Serbs were proud.


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Muslims intended to kill all Serbs over 13 and rape Serb women so that these would give birth to Muslims [13].


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According to Belgrade television, all Serbs should live in the same state, and that only solidarity will save the Serbs, and that Serbs are the leading nation in the Balkans [13].


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In January 1992, Portuguese European Community peace mediator Jose Cutileiro attempted to mediate the conflict by proposing to divide Bosnia into three cantons.


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In early March, the Serbs tried in vain to amend the proposal with their own division of territories.


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The two sides signed the plan on 18 March 1992 in Lisbon.


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On 28 March, the US envoy to Yugoslavia visited, lending his country's support to a unified cantonal undivided Bosnia.


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Izetbegovic then rejected the Lisbon Treaty.


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In this case, Izetbegovic took a conscious risk of war breaking out.


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Izetbegovic considered the war to be the price for his country's independence.


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Although the Serb party SDS boycotted the referendum, it still allowed it to be held [8].


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At the beginning of March, 90% of those who voted supported Bosnia-Herzegovina becoming independent [14], but Serbs had opted out of the election.


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When the election result was published, Serbs set up roadblocks across Sarajevo and Bosnia supposedly in retaliation for the killing of a Serb man and an Orthodox priest wounded at a Sarajevan wedding [14].


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Serbs with Cethnics fired non-stop for 24 hours [8].


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From Pale, the administrative centre of the nationalists led by Karadzic, it was declared that a political solution would not succeed [14].


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So, too, Muslims bought weapons for their defensive guards [14].


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Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence on 5 April 1992.


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On 4 April, the Belgrade mafioso Arkan attacked Bileljina with his gangs, who killed a hundred Muslims [16] in summamutika [15].


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On 6 April, the United States and the EU recognised Bosnian independence [16].


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Subsequently, Serb forces, with heavy weapons, began shelling Sarajevo.


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During the same month, Serb paramilites and Serb army troops attacked many Bosniak-majority cities [17], such as Zvornik, Foča and Višegrad, from where almost all Muslims were driven out by the end of April [16].


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Most Bosniak residents were expelled from cities that had to experience the first ethnic cleansing of the war, which were the expulsions, killing, looting, burning of houses or blasts, and so on.


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The perpetrators of ethnic cleansing differentiated between men and women.


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Men may have been put in hunger camps to die, women to rape camps [18].


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On many occasions, persons of Muslim prominence came to death camps [16].


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The Serbs themselves justified their purges by the fact that Serbs were threatened by Islamic and other non-Serbs [1].


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In six weeks the Serbs managed to take over about two-thirds of Bosnia-Herzegovina. [19].


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This was due, among other things, to the fact that the Muslims (Bosniaks) did not have an organised regular army at their disposal, but defence was on the basis of local volunteer gun guards with minimal weapons [20].


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The motive for the activities of many militias was the economic gain from plundering, such as the “Arkan” tigers [21].


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Serbia and Montanegro formally established stub Yugoslavia at the end of April, which was imposed under a UN arms export and oil embargo and EC embargo.


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Officially, the Federal Army withdrew from Bosnia-Herzegovina at the end of April, but in practice its forces there were designated as the Bosnian Serb Army.


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Of course, about 14000 soldiers left Bosnia-Herzegovina away [18].


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This 80,000 man-strong [18] BSA block was led by the notorious General Ratko Mladić, who had reaped fame in the Croatian War, whose relatives had died in the Yugoslav Civil War of World War II.


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The UNPROFOR forces securing peace in Croatia would not have been sufficient for action in Bosnia [18].


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From March to August, a few Western powers, including the United States, dropped large quantities of food and medicine in Bosnia-Herzegovina cities blockaded by the Serbs.


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Estabilization of front lines The frontal lines were roughly stabilized in early June.


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The Croat region of West Herzegovina broke away from Bosnia-Herzegovina in the summer and practically joined Croatia, thus foreshadowing war between Bosniaks and Croats, and joined the division of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Croat politicians such as Franjo Tuđman and Gojko Susak between Croats and Serbs in the middle.


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Around the same time, however, Croatia and the Bosniak government entered into a military alliance.


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Large numbers of refugees were already circulating in early June [17], when the blockade of Sarejevo expired.


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before that, the city had already begun to be shelled, among other things, from Mount Trebevic [17].


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The influx of refugees increased enormously in the summer.


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Ethnic cleansing began to be spoken publicly only in July 1992, although they had already been committed in the Croatian war the previous year.


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Concentration camps erected by Serbs rose to public prominence on 4 August with their torture, starvation and arbitrary slayings of prisoners, although the Serbs promised to close the camps, they continued to operate nonetheless.


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More than 3 million people had been displaced in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and some 40,000 civilians were killed by Serbs by August 1992.


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Peace Attempts and Bosniak-Croat Disputes In late June 1992, UN troops entered Bosnia-Herzegovina, but they did not prevent war or ethnic cleansing.


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Their task was mainly to help civilians caught at the feet of the war, where they also failed on many points.


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The Serbs drove Muslims from their homes and made these write a certificate of the donation of property.


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Peace was negotiated a few times in the spring of 1993, but peace talks tapered off one after the other.


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At least one party leading the nation was unhappy with the peace plan at each time.


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In May 1993, the Serbs rejected the Vancen-Owen peace plan.


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In the same year, Serbs and Croats gained the idea of partitioning Bosnia into Greater Croatia and Greater Serbia, after Bosniaks had become very crowded in the war.


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Formally, Bosnia-Herzegovina would be divided into three ethnic states.


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Under this Owenin-Stoltenberg peace plan, the Serbs would have gained 53% of the territory, the Croats 17% and the Bosniaks 30%.


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The Bosniaks did not accept the peace proposal presented in August.


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Serbs and others fought with each other during the war over the Brco, or Posavina Corridor, which connected the Serb region of Banja Lukan-Derventa with Serbia [22].


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At its narrowest point at Brcko, the corridor was only a few miles wide.


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Muslims and Croats tried many times fighting to cut off the corridor.


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Usually the corridor was open to Serbs.


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Bosniak-Croat War Bosnian Croats set up their own army in spring 1992 and sought to purge Muslim areas for themselves.


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The first Croat attacks took place in the spring of 1992.


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Although in the summer of 1992 the Muslim-Croat leadership agreed to cooperate, Croats started many local skirmishes and carried out ethnic cleansing.


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The Croats also eliminated from their midst the HOS, which collaborated with Muslims.


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Thus the Croats gained control of a large area.


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Foreign fighters arrived to defend Muslims in late 1992.


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Open war between two peoples at a loss to the Serbs only broke out when the Croats attacked the Bosniaks in May 1993.


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The bitter war was evident in Mostar, among other places, where Croats shelled a Muslim neighbourhood.


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The Croats purged Bosniaks in the spring of 1993, among others, in Ahmić in central Bosnia.


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Although official Muslim policy did not favor ethnic cleansing, some of them committed ethnic cleansing and massacres, and other nationalities fled Muslim areas.


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The Croat invasion failed to defeat the Bosniaks.


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[23] The Croat-Muslim war was probably related to the desire of Serbs and Croats to divide Bosnia-Herzegovina at the expense of Bosniak Muslims.


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It has often been thought Bosniaks had defended multicultural Sarajevo and Bosnia in the war, but as the war progressed, the Muslim position increasingly sharpened to pursue the interests of their own group.


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Of the Bosniak cities, the most genuinely multicultural was Tuzla, not Sarajevo.


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In the summer of 1993, the UN declared blockaded Bosniak and Croat cities as protected areas, and a ban on flights over Bosnia-Herzegovina.


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From the protected areas, the troops were ordered to withdraw, and humanitarian organizations and UNPROFOR were to be allowed to operate in peace.


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[24] The safe cities were Sarajevo, Bihać, Goražde, Tuzla, Srebrenica and Žepa.


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In June 1993, Muslims recaptured the town of Travnik from the Croats.


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Mostar's famous old arch bridge, Stari most, collapsed on November 9, 1993.


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It had endured a miraculously long period of fire from various parties.


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In August, UN troops were held captive for a short time in Mostar.


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In the autumn of 1993, the Bosniaks were in a very cramped state.


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At the same time, the economy of the Serb regions was just short of everything, and the Serb struggle had subsided, and many Serbs capable of clawing fled to or out of Serbia [25].


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In January 1994, the Serbs withdrew out of fear of NATO airstrikes for a while from the surroundings of Sarajevo.


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On 6 February, a grenade fired by Serbs killed 61 lives and the entire shelling session about 200.


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The NATO threat drove the Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons to within 20 miles of Sarajevo's surroundings, somewhat calming the fighting throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina.


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With its strikes, NATO managed to suspend an April 1994 Serb attack on the blockaded city of Goražde.


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In 1994, Croats and Bosniaks agreed, according to some, because of pressure from the West, their dispute, and in the future they conducted joint military operations against the Serbs.


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This peace was mediated or pressured by the West.


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The West had begun secretly supporting Croats and Muslims, whose armies had intensified as the war progressed.


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Although Croats and Muslims now cooperated against the Serbs, deep suspicions remained between them until the end of the war, and Muslims, among others, were still reserved in some areas for possible fighting against the Croats.


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Serb unity cracks and war ends As the war progressed, Serb unity of different regions began with crevices.


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By the summer of 1994, Milošević had turned against the Bosnian War.


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In August 1994, Milošević stopped supporting Bosnian Serbs in order to ease the economic blockade of Stubby Yugoslavia.


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In addition, he had disputes with nationalist Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić.


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Milošević also viewed the ultra-nationalists of Vojislav Šešelj as threats to his power [26] and allied himself with Vuk Draskovic, who opposed the war.


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Karadžić had rejected a peace plan that suited Milošević.


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In Politika magazine, Milošević's credit person, Zoran Lilić, accused Bosnian Serbs of lawlessness and immorality, shelling and ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo, and fuelling inflation [27].


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Karadzic ran a black market trade in Bosnia.


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There was also a shortage of everything in Serb territory, and many Serbs fled the country to avoid war.


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Since Serbia had not officially helped Bosnian Serbs, Milošević could blame local nationalist Serbs for Bosnia's lawlessness.


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Thus Milošević gave up the dream of a Greater Serbia.


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Supporting Bosnia was an economic drag on impoverished Serbia in the extreme.


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Karadžić was more interested in his own Serb state in Bosnia-Herzegovina, not a large Serb country like Milošević.


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So, in late 1994, the border between Bosnia and Serbia was closed.


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Bosnian Serbs attacked Sarajevo in the autumn of 1994 and cut off aid shipments taking them there, driving the city to the brink of famine.


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In Bosnia and Croatia, many Serbs were bitter after Milošević abandoned them.


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The Serb army began to fade.


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There were also disputes between the Serb governments of Croatian Krajina and Bosnia-Herzegovina.


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In May 1995, NATO bombed an arms depot in Bosnia-Herzegovina after Serbs had shelled blockaded Sarajevo with rockets.


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Serbs took more than 200 UN soldiers hostage and chained these as human shields to NATO bombing targets.


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Because of this, NATO was forced to stop its air strikes.


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Furthermore, at the same time, the Serbs were driving around the UN vehicles they had stolen in Bosnia, thus scouting opposing positions.


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Around this time, the Serbs tried to seize the Bihać region, which they had blockaded with Bosniaks, where hunger prevailed.


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Karadzic tried to dismiss General Mladic but failed to do so because he was too popular [28].


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Croats carried out a fairly extensive attack in southern Bosnia in the summer of 1995.


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In August 1995 Croats and Bosniaks jointly attacked Serbs over a vast area.


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The well-advanced Operation Storm in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina lasted only a few days.


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The defenses of the weakened Serb army were broken due to its lack of support from Serbia.


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Karadzic ordered the Serbs to flee for fear of ethnic cleansing and because he wanted to preserve Bosnian Serbs together.


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The attack drove large numbers of Serbs into exodus from a large area of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.


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NATO, through aerial bombardment in the autumn of 1995, forced the Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo.


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Most of the UN troops had been withdrawn from Bosnia-Herzegovina, so it was not so easy for the Serbs to take large numbers of hostages from UN soldiers as it was the previous time.


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The Serb military collapse and NATO action eventually led to the end of fighting in Bosnia and Croatia.


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Officially, martial law was terminated by the Dayton Peace Agreement, concluded under the direction of the United States,


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It was signed on 14 December 1995 in Paris.


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[29] Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War Muslims in particular were subjected to ethnic cleansing in the war: they were often killed en masse and confined to concentration camps.


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Even in milder cases, Muslims were often looted to be boutiques and their homes were either blown up or burned.


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For many Serbs involved in the war, the opportunity to plunder was sufficient incentive to wage war.


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Ethnic cleansing began to be widely spoken of only in July 1992, although they had already been carried out in Bosnia in March and in Croatia no later than July 1991.


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They were attended by about a third of Serbs in the region.


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The purpose of the purges was to eradicate Muslim culture and people from Bosnia-Herzegovina.


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Croats also engaged in ethnic cleansing.


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International crisis management failed in Bosnia International negotiations did not stop the Bosnian war until the fixture had turned to the disadvantage of Bosnian Serbs and the territorial division of Bosnia was secretly reminiscent of the one agreed in 1991 in Karadjordjevo [30].


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Great powers operate in the Balkans with hesitation and uncounseling.


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Western countries procrastinated or did nothing, and their threats didn't intensify.


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In the face of escape, hasty, half-hearted actions were carried out internationally [31].


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Many times the international community failed to help civilians, contain the war and address ongoing human rights crimes.


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In general, the UN was unable to prevent military action by Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks.


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UN troops were deployed, but these were too few and they feared the Serbs.


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Events in the former Yugoslavia were directed mostly by the former Yugoslav Federal Army disguised as the Bosnian Serb Army.


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The UN Security Council member countries were very divided throughout the war on what to do to contain the crisis.


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When the UN set up the Yugoslavia tribunal in March 1993, its activities rested on nothing, and hardly anyone believed at that time many war crimes suspects would face trial in The Hague.


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The European Community EC tried in vain to limit the war in Bosnia.


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The OSCE, the meeting on security and cooperation in Europe, was even weaker.


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The right to use force against the Bosnian Serbs who violated the most human rights was decided internationally early in 1992 [31], but it was not taken to a large extent than in 1995.


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However, many felt that the use of force would have helped the besieged Sarajevo, judging by a few incidents [32], but would have required a larger UN force [33].


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Political negotiations could have opened Tuzla Airport [34].


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NATO airstrikes allegedly prevented Goradze's takeover at the end of the war [35].


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The UN was unable to prevent rape and closure of concentration camps, although separate decisions had been taken to address these [36].


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UN troops sheltered aid transports, many of which still had to retreat out of the way of shelling or pay a toll to the besiegers.


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The Americans dropped relief supplies on besieged towns as soon as the war began.


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Serbs and others looted and taxed UN transports to the blockaded cities [31].


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On many occasions, the Serbs closed Sarajevo airport, thus blocking aid transports through the air bridge.


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The aid that got there was a lot of poor quality, for example rancid flour, old hospital equipment and heart medicine.


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Some UN soldiers themselves succumbed to various acts of indiscipline and lawlessness in the Bosnia-Herzegovina War [37].


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In the autumn of 1994 and the summer of 1995, Bosnian Serbs took UN soldiers hostage and used them as human shields against NATO air attacks [38].


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Western countries did not want to send their troops to Bosnia-Herzegovina, especially for a ground war.


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In the territory of the former Yugoslavia, local guerrilla detachments would have been effective, for example, against NATO forces.


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There was more sensitivity in favour of air raids.


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Different parties, initially Serbs and later Muslims, sabotaged peace proposals made by the international community.


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The peace brokers were former foreign ministers Cyrus Vance of the United States, David Owen of Britain and Thorbjörn Stoltenberg of Norway.


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In 1993, the United States feared the escalation of the Yugoslav crisis into Kosovo.


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In this case, the war might have progressed to Albania and Macedonia, home to a large number of Albanians.


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This might have driven the mutually disputing NATO countries into the Greek-Turkish war.


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That's why the US sent peacekeepers to Macedonia.


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Armed forces in the Bosnian War against Bosniaks led by Alija Izetbegović, Croats Mate Boban and Serbs Radovan Karadžić.


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From the Muslim army, the name Armija BiH was used, “Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina”, and the name HVO from the Croat arms corps.


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Armed troops operated in the Bosnian War: Croat Defence Assembly (Hrvatsko Vijeće Obrane, HVO) Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Armija Bosne i Hercegovine, Armija BiH), known as “Armija”.


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Army of Republika Srpska (Vojska Republike Srpske, VRS) and later Bosnian Serb Army BSA.


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Serb “White Eagles” (Beli Orlovi) Serb Arkan “Tigers” Serb “Red Barets” Bosniak “Patriotic Union” (Patriotska Liga) Bosniak “Green Berets” (Zelene Beretke) Croat “Croat Defense Forces” (Hrvatske Obrambene Snage HOS) Many others Militia Accounts of the Bosnian War According to the latest estimates, a total of 100000—110000 people were killed in the Bosnian war, 40% of whom were civilians.


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[39] [40] Immediately after the war, the death toll was estimated at around 200,000 people.


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[19] Approximately 1.8 million people fled or were deported.


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According to the Sarajevis Research Center, during the war there were at least 400 prison camps in Bosnia.


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[41] Another of Bosnia's most prominent war criminals, Radovan Karadžić was arrested near Belgrade in July 2008, Ratko Mladić was arrested in Vojvodina on 26 May 2011. [42].


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Karadzic was convicted in 2016.


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Bosnia remained divided into two entities after the war.


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Poverty, unemployment and also increasingly disputes between peoples overshadowed everyday life in Bosnia in the following decades.


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Dissatisfaction with the Dayton Peace Agreement, which was seen as a lean bond at the beginning, grew with the times.


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In 2010, Bosnian Serbs threatened to secede as their own state.


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See also Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina Beginning of the Bosnian War Timeline of the Bosnian War Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War concentration camps Sources General sources Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Rutanen, Reijo| title = Serbia - Europe's sickest man| publisher = Gaudeamus| year = 2002| id = ISBN 951-662-869-9}} Terttu Lensu, Marija's Quiet War, WSOY 2000, WS Bookwell Oy Juva 2000, ISBN 951-0-24361-2 Marita Vihervuori: Welcome to Hell: Glimpses of the Yugoslav War of Succession, Otava 1999, ISBN 951-11A 16-390-6 Roy Gutman: Genocide Witness - Report on Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia, Like 1993, ISBN 951-578-160-4 Yrjö Lautela and Jyrki Palo: Yugoslavia — a nation that was not, VAPK cost 1992, ISBN 9513709566 Mary Kaldor, New and Old Wars, Kustannus Oy Typhoon 2001, Tallinn 2001, ISBN 951-881 -078-7, Riikka Taipale, Sarajevo and its surroundings, Timo Virtala, Cigarette Oasis 2013, ISBN 9789522680662 Luca moconesi, Mostar Road Hitchhikers - Finnish mercenary in the Bosnian War, WSOY 1997, ISBN 951-021-906-1 Jani Anttola, Black Widows, Tammi 1998, ISBN 951-311-173-3 Check date values in: |accessdate= (help) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) Slavenka Drakulić: Would not harm a fly - war criminals with conviction, Finnish peace defenders 2005, Vertical Ear Book, Like Helsinki 2005, ISBN 952-471-612-7 (sid.


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