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- 1 2 "Finnish Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
- ↑ "Finnish Indoor Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
- ↑ "World men's all-time best 110m hurdles (last updated 2001)" . Retrieved 2 February 2009.
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