In 1909, the personnel at the
life insurance company Kaleva donated a trophy called the
Kalevan malja or the Kaleva Cup to be awarded to and kept for until the next Championships by the team accumulating the most points during the competition. In 1909, the Finnish Championships started to be informally referred to as the
Kaleva Games because of the name of the cup. At the Championships held in
Pori in 1915, the magazine
Suomen Urheilulehti started to call the competition the
Kaleva Games in its headlines. In 1937, at the Championships held in
Vyborg, the Finnish athletics
federation called
Finnish Athletics (
Suomen Urheiluliitto in Finnish) formally declared the name of the Finnish Championships to be the Kaleva Games. ==History==