Santtu Heikkinen, representing Lempäälä Kisa, improved his own record in the hall.
Athletics The hall season has just started, and the Finns are already in high spirits. Lempäälä Kisan Santtu Heikkinen broke the Finnish 3,000 meter record in Luxembourg on Sunday. The new SE is recorded with a handsome reading of 7:52,12.
With his stroke, Heikkinen was fourth in a tough competition. The competition was won by the Netherlands Mahadi Abdi Ali at 7:47.32.
The previous SE was from March 1973 and Pekka Päivärinnan on behalf of. Päivärinta clocked a time of 7:52.92 in Rotterdam, where she won the European indoor bronze medal.
Heikkinen improved his own record from last year by four seconds.
Sunday's competition was Heikkinen's first this year.
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