31st JANUARY 2000

INDOOR TRIPLE JUMP RECORD FOR KILPELAINEN

Over the weekend in Russia at the "Governor's Cup meet"
Samara, Natalia KILPELAINEN set a new Finnish triple 
jump record of 14.09 metres, behind Russia's Jelena 
Lebedenko who leapt 14.66 for victory.

Kilpelainen's mark was a 33cm improvement on her 
own previous national record of 13.76m set in
Malmo in 1998.

Result -
1) Jelena Lebedenko 14.66m
2) Inna Lasovkaja 14.25m
3) Natalia Kilpelainen (FIN) 14.09m.

HELSINKI 30/01:

Riina TOLONEN set a new 17 years age national record
in the women's 1,500 metres. Tolonen one of a group of
very promising junior girls ran a time of 4:26.5 mins,
so beating Tytti Reho's 1994 mark of 4:28.65.