According to Markku Suonenvirta, who is 70 years old, many things are better in the world than before, but not all old wisdom should be forgotten. The power legend hopes that his new job is still carrying his last card to society.
- Markku Suonenvirta, the founder of the Finnish Strong Most Competition, turned 70 years old and reflected on the importance of aging in his life.
- He sold the competition to continue in the future and is still involved in sharing his experiences with new organizers.
- Suonenvirta expresses its concern about the unrest in the world and hopes that not all traditional values in Finland will be forgotten.
– Is there any more tougher? Is it?
Markku Suonenvirta In the first Finnish Strongest Man of Finland, in 1987 screamed in the Crusifian species in the face red.
Wasn’t harder.
And especially two years later, when Suonenvirta did not only take the race but won the whole competition he had set up together with his pair Ilkka Nummiston with.
Values to be renewed
A lot of iron has been rumbled after the first strongest man of Finland.
Suonenvirta turned 70 on April 12. No longer does the power legend wondering if something is tougher.
– As I grow older, I find that different things get different meanings than another twenty years ago. At that time, something did not appreciate in any way. Today, they are quite appreciated in unpredictable, Suonenvirta says.
– That’s how aging only shapes people and the world of values. Today, for example, I appreciate the fact that my own relatives are about to do things well. For my part, I can say that heroic work has been done.
Suonenvirta created the base of the species in Finland not only as an organizer but also as a competitor. He and Ilkka Nummisto even became a tough celebrity in Finland. Markku Suonenvirta’s home album
An important moment
When the Suonenvirta filled the round, about the same time of his son’s 30th birthday.
According to Suonenvirta, “centenary birthdays” would have been the subject of the celebration, but due to the various hurry, the larger crackers were not kept.
– For me, a big celebration was that I got the kids and grandchildren at the same dining table. We sat for one day, ate and drank well and remembered the past. It was a big party for me, Suonenvirta says.
The sound of the father and grandfather’s title of pride in the vein stream begins to vibrate.
– Maybe it wasn’t a big party for them, but it was for me.
“Damn pleased”
Although power may no longer be in a small village, Suonenvirta says that health is in order.
– Obviously, when there are so many miles behind and what tricks you have done here in life, they leave their mark.
The vein flow is even a little amazed at how well the body and mind play.
I hope when the sky ends, it goes so that you go to bed in the evening and in the morning you will no longer wake up. That would be an ideal situation, but we can’t know the number of our days, so it’s useless to think about it.
Suonenvirta trained extremely hard in his career and sometimes competed with medication due to injuries. In the early 1980s, his consciousness set off in the middle of a bench press and 210 pounds crashed alongside. The situation was life -threatening.
– I have told everyone, my spouse and the kids that I don’t live long. My dad went into the pit as a sixyry and I thought it was when those “screams” then when we end up.
– But cat wool! Now the seventies are broken and the end is not visible. I am happy, absolutely damn happy.
Pig and satellite
Suonenvirta thinks that working and hustling with younger people has kept him refreshed. Riku Cork
In early 2024, it was reported that Suonenvirta had sold its life’s work, the strongest of Finland, To Jarkko Mehtälä and Jukka Tiito.
In recent years, finding funding and all other issues related to the race arrangements took the Suonenvirta completely.
The Grand Master wanted the competition to have a future behind him. Suonenvirta realized, among other things, that it would be good for the competition to appear on social media.
– And I understand those things as much as the pig satellite. I realized that if I don’t understand now to give up this, I will kill the whole thing for my own stupidity.
However, Suonenvirta is still sharing its tacit knowledge with existing organizers, which has accumulated over 40 years.
– That they don’t need all the same bumps that I myself have rolled.
Suonenvirta is pleased with the hands of competition today.
– I wouldn’t want us to go to the pit that it will dry and forget.
Tough goal
When Suonenvirta sold the strongest competition in Finland, he thought he would make his life easier by reducing work.
– I thought I had allowed me to give and start spending old age days. For two weeks from the window to the woods, I was living in the lands and stated that no goddamn, this for the rest of my life could not be like this.
– Well, I just postponed my head in the loop.
As its latest project, Suonenvirta is organizing international soldiers’ competition, which combines physical measurement with military skills. In August, a competition in Mikkeli will become competitors from several Western countries, such as Finland, the US, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Sweden and Latvia.
-The intention is not to make a power racing in a field suit, but the competition requires all aspects of physics, ie speed, endurance and power, but also military skills, says Suonenvirta.
– There we shoot, evacuate, load and do things familiar to soldiers. The degree of pregnancy is only for power.
The world’s strongest soldiers are supported by at least the Defense Forces and the Reserve Sports Association. The goal is to increase the event so that it would be the TV series in the coming years.
Suonenvirta and Ilkka Nummisto were photographed on a familiar story cruise with wives Mirva and Ritva in 1997. Nummisto died at the age of 75 in 2019. IL Archive
Hopes for peace
Suonenvirta believes that there is a latent demand for soldiers in soldiers, reservists and spectators.
The power legend also hopes to “secretly” that competition will inspire reservists and young conscripts.
– It may be naive to say this, but if a little on my own, maybe in a special way I could support this national defense.
Suonenvirta has been saddened by the world of wars in the world. The man’s sympathies are strongly on the Ukrainian side.
– Do not maintain anger giving no value to living in peace? Suonenvirta asks.
– In the eastern neighbor, one million hubby has fallen out of the line and the pace is just accelerating. It’s something so crazy that I can’t understand. What does anyone think they win? It’s somehow so sick of going.
Hand
According to Suonenvirta, many things in the world have gone to the “damn much” better, but not in all respects.
Suonenvirta hopes that “hay -making” will not disappear from Finland.
– People knew the right and wrong and it was worth somewhere. When something was agreed and the hand was thrown on, there was no need for it, Suonenvirta recalls.
Suonenvirta made his actual career as a police officer. He estimates that he would no longer be able to work even if he is younger.
– Everyone needs to understand everything and everyone. Everything should be accepted. I do not think that this world of thought and experience would have the work of the police. I would not be able to adapt to my work to be sustainable.
– It’s hard to put things into words, but somehow the world is a bit sore at the moment.
On the other hand, the Suonenvirta no longer needs to be hidden everywhere and everywhere.
– Now that I would still be together to get my current job in such a way that it would have some continuum and future view.
– In life, the damn one is strongly closed.