High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paavo Ilmari Yrjölä (June 18, 1902 in Hämeenkyrö February 11, 1980 ibid.), also known as the Bear of Hämeenkyrö (Hämeenkyrön karhu), was a Finnish track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the decathlon at the the Olympics in 1928.In the 1928 Olympics, he had to rerun the 100 m hurdles as the fourth hurdle was placed incorrectly in the first run. Finland took the top two spots in the decathlon that year with Yrjölä taking the gold (with a world record) and Akilles Järvinen the silver.