Mauri Nyberg-Noroma

Mauri Kalervo Nyberg-Noroma (31 January 1908 in Viipuri – 23 December 1939 in Muolaa) was a Finnish gymnast.

Mauri Noroma
Noroma in 1932
Personal information
Full name	Mauri Kalervo Nyberg-Noroma
Born	(1908-01-31)31 January 1908 Viipuri, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died	23 December 1939(1939-12-23) (aged 31) Muolaa, Finland
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Finland
Medal record Men's artistic gymnastics Representing  Finland Olympic Games 1932 Los Angeles Team 1936 Berlin Team

He won three Olympic medals for Finland. He took part in his first Olympics in 1928 in Amsterdam but did not medal. He came joint sixth after a fifth place in the rings and seventh on the pommel horse and parallel bars. The Finnish team came in fifth place in the team competition.

In the next Olympics, in 1932, Finland took bronze in the team competition. Individually, Nyberg-Noroma failed to medal, but he came in fourth place in the parallel bars, 1.4 points behind his compatriot Heikki Savolainen, who took bronze. Overall, he came in ninth place.

At the Olympics in Berlin in 1936, the Finns repeated their result from the previous Olympics and won bronze in the team competition. This time, Nyberg-Noroma came in 16th place overall. He was killed in action during the Winter War.^[1]