Paavo Edvard Kotila was a Finnish long-distance runner, Olympian, and three-time national champion in the marathon.
Career
With this performance, he was ranked first in the marathon for 1956.
Achievements
Kotila won his second consecutive national title in 1956 with a time of 2:18:04.8. Kotila later finished 13th in the marathon on at the 1956 Summer Olympics and won the 1960 Boston Marathon.