European champion Reetta Hurske of Finland opened the season with a world-leading time to win the women’s 60-meter hurdles at the Tampere Indoor Meeting, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver event in Finland on Wednesday (21).
Hurske, who captured the 60m hurdles European indoor title in 2023, clocked 7.92 seconds to better the previous world-leading mark of 7.94 set by Jamaica’s Danielle Williams at the Clemson Invitational earlier this month. The 30-year-old posted 8.02 seconds in her heat to qualify with the fastest time entering the final.
Lotta Harala of Finland finished second in 8.04 seconds, and Slovenia’s Nika Glojnarič matched her personal best of 8.04 to finish third.
Jamaica’s Travis Williams won the men’s race in 6.67 seconds, edging out Anej Čurin Prapotnik of Slovenia, who clocked a season’s best 6.68, and David Morgan-Harrison of Britain, who ran 6.69 for third.
Also on the track, Belgium’s Laure Bilo posted 2:03.86 to win the women’s 800m, beating Finnish runners Veera Mattila, second in 2:04.68, and Heini Ikonen in 2:07.73.
In the field events, 2023 European Under-23 Championships bronze medalist Emilia Kangas of Finland won the women’s shot put with a national record of 18.13 meters, defeating Portugal’s Eliana Bandeira, who threw 17.53m, and Finland’s Senja Mäkitörmä with 17.28m.
Melwin Lycke Holm of Sweden and Adónios Mérlos of Greece both cleared 2.22m in the men’s high jump, with Lycke Holm, the 2023 European junior champion, credited with the win.
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