Reetta Hurske improved Finland’s national record at 60m hurdles

European results in the women’s 60m hurdles this season are getting tighter at the top of the continental rankings. Reetta Hurske improved Finland’s national record in the event after winning the run of the World Athletics Tour with a “gold label” in Madrid yesterday.

The 27-year-old Finish athlete until now held the record of her country with 7.81 sec from 2023, but yesterday she went below 7.8 sec for the first time in the discipline – 7.79 sec.

“This winter is going better than I expected at the beginning of the year. The big difference from the previous two years is that I have been healthy all winter”, said Reetta Hurske after her victory.

World indoor champion Cyrena Samba-Mayela (France) finished second with 7.84 see, and two-time European indoor champion Nadine Visser (Netherlands) came third with 7.86 sec.

Reetta Hurske is a Finnish athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles, who previously competed in the heptathlon. She placed fourth in the 60m hurdles at the 2019 European Indoor Championships and second in the 100m hurdles at the 2019 Universiade. Reetta Hurske represented her country at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as well as the 2019 and 2022 World Athletics Championships. Her personal bests are 12.78 seconds in the 100m hurdles and 7.79 seconds in the 60m hurdles.