The Kuopio Finnish Championships in Athletics were completed on Sunday.
Topi Raitanen flashed its strong winter flow at 3,000 meters in the Kuopio Championship Hall on Sunday. Ilona Mononen in turn, he sealed the second championship in Kuopio Hall with sharp sharpness. On Saturday, Mononen won 1,500 meters.
Raitanen frosted the 3,000-meter championship with a good time of 7.57.46. His hall record has run 7.55.71 on short lines.
– A nice race where I finally got distressed. This race says that now I am in a more balanced state than at the same time last year. I was a little too tired then, Raitanen said.
Joonas Rinne got into a tight men’s 800-meter tightrope. Slope sealed the middle distance doubles with a time of 1.49.74, though Niko Viljola kept him tight and was second with a long track record of 1.49.98.
– I had thought that I would take the top spot and try to control the run. In retrospect, it would have been better to apply for a place in the group, but it was strict. I was pretty sure at the end that Niko would pass, Rinne repeated.
Moved from the fence to 800 meters Eveliina Määttänen won the women’s 800m championship with a hall record of 2.06.01. In the tension, the runners-up were defeated for the second time with a time of 2.07.17 Viola Westling.
Lalla defeated Junnila, Salminen Mäkelä
High jumper Blue in Lalla did not spare his voice in the Kuopio Finnish Championship Hall, when his own record first improved to 188, after which he exceeded the 190 who secured the championship.
– I had a stomach ache all week. It was kind of weird, but still light. And I knew this was a good jumping place for me because I went here to compete at the end of January, Lalla said.
In tough competition Heta Tuuri was another and Ella Junnila third. Both exceeded 188.
Senni Salminen won his third consecutive three-jump championship with a winter top spot of 14.16. The result is a new Finnish Championship record and ranks ninth in this winter’s world statistics.
Kristiina Mäkelä was second after an effort of 13.75. In both, the longest jumps in the race were overrun.
– There was a bit of getting used to, but you have to be happy when the first race went over 14 meters. The run went really well and the track was fast, so the step mark was allowed to move quite a bit already during the warm-up, Salminen said.
Salminen and Mäkelä have already secured a place in the World Championships in Belgrade in mid-March.
– By the way, it was awful, but the last jump was good. Its noticed that there are no long paced jumps below. Let’s jump in one 10 step pace workout, Mäkelä said.
Kuusiniemi rushed to the World Cup limit
Santeri Kuusiniemi surprised his training and club buddies Ilari Mannisen and won the 60-meter hurdles with a record of 7.74, just two-hundredths of the World Cup limit. Manninen was the second to lose a hundredth.
Kuusiniemi improved its record in the first round to 7.81. The final time is the tenth of Finland’s all-time statistics.
– It was a whole run. Ilari got off the racks better and I don’t remember anything from the beginning. The fence started to suck well and remained intact until the end, Kuusiniemi said.
– It might be possible to try the World Cup limit. Wait and see. It is annoying that it was two hundredths left.
The women’s 60m hurdles championship was won by the all-rounder Saga Vanninen with a record 8.38.
Women’s 200m Medal Triple Aino Pulkkinen, Anniina Kortetmaa and Milja Thureson all ran their hall record. The times of Kortetmaa and Pulkkinen at 23.70 and 23.74 are the seventh and eighth in Finland’s all-time government statistics, taking into account both short and long lines. Thureson was third with a time of 23.86.
Purola championship even though the approximator muscle “jumped”
Samuel Purola won the 200-meter championship, although sensations in the thigh approximator muscle forced him to slow down. Purola won the championship with a time of 21.01
– The approximator started flipping after the first round. In the middle of the final, it was just fine. After that, it was a struggle towards the goal and the last 30 meters had to hit the pace completely when it couldn’t run properly, Purola said.
Eljas Aalto and Oskari Lehtonen were second and third in time at 21.35 and 21.44.
Essi Niskala took on the Finnish records of women, 22-year-olds, 19-year-olds and 17-year-olds, winning the women’s 300-meter hurdles at 40.57.
Niskala healed Viivi Lehikoinen the winters of women in the winters for a total of 0.40 seconds.
Tuomas Lehtonen won the men’s 300m hurdles by a time of 36.37. His record for the second winter is 36.08.
Anniina Kortetmaa, Heidi Salminen, Heini Ikonen and Aino Pulkkinen ran the Finnish 4 × 337 meter Finnish Women’s Championship by far in the Jyväskylä Field Athletes. The winning time of 3.00.08 is the best ever on the 337-meter-long track of Kuopio Hall.
Jyväskylän Kenttäurheilijat was the best in men’s running and Helsinki IFK was second with a winning time of 2.40.09. Helsinki’s 29-year-old hall record is slightly better at 2.38.87. JKU’s men took the message Konsta AlatupaIlari Manninen, Santeri Kuusiniemi and Viljami Kaasalainen.