Uku Renek Kronbergs sets 800-meters PB in Finland
Estonian middle-distance runner Uku Renek Kronbergs set a new 800 meters personal best, at the Motonet GP in Oulu, Finland on Sunday.
Though the 20-year-old Kronbergs, pictured, was not a part of the Estonian team which competed in the recent Paris Olympics, the result puts him in third place on Estonia's all-time roster of PBs over 800 meters.
Kronbergs completed the two laps of the Oulu stadium in 1:47.56, improving by 0.60 seconds on his previous PB of 1:48.16 set at last year's Estonian Championships.
The only runner to finish ahead of Kronbergs was local athlete Joonas Rinne, who clocked 1:47.32.
Niko Viljola rounding out the top three with a time of 1:49.17, followed by half-a-dozen more Finnish runners.
In other events, Estonian 100-meter record holder Karl Erik Nazarov won in Oulu with a time of 10.37 seconds, and Marielle Kleemeier finished ninth in the women's 800 meters (2:12.49).
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