Finnkampen resumes in 1939
After a tense 1930s interruption, the Sweden-Finland athletics match resumed in 1939, giving the war-threshold year a sports and national-identity marker.
Finnkampen, the Sweden-Finland athletics match, resumed in 1939 after an interrupted and tense 1930s exchange.
The event matters because Swedish-Finnish sporting identity restarted at the very edge of war, just before the Winter War changed the countries’ relationship in political and emotional terms.