Kreete Verlin
Estonian athlete (born 1997)
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Kreete Verlin (born 14 February 1997) is an Estonian hurdler. She is a multiple-time national champion and was a semi-finalist over 60 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]
Biography
From Tallinn, Verlin trains under Maris Mägi.[2] She won the Estonian Athletics Championships for the first time over 100 metres hurdles in August 2020.[3] She won the Estonian Indoor Athletics Championships for the first time over 60 metres hurdles in February 2022.[4] The following month, she competed for Estonia at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, without advancing to the semi-finals.[5]
She ran as part of the Estonian 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas in May 2024,[6][7] as well as the following month at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[8]
In January 2025, she lowered the Estonian national record for the 60 metres hurdles to 8.06 seconds whilst competing in Luxembourg.[9] In March 2025, she competed at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands and was a semi-finalist over 60 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China.[10]
Verlin set a new 100m hurdles personal best in Tartu on 17 June 2025 of 13.11 seconds.[11] Later that month, she competed for Estonia in the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor, Slovenia, in the 100 metres hurdles.[12] Running alongside Miia Ott, Anna Maria Millend and Ann Marii Kivikas to set an Estonian record of 43.98 in the 4 x 100 metres race at the championships.[13][14]
On January 24, 2026, she improved her Estonian record by a hundredth of a second, bringing it to 8.05. In February 2026, she set new personal bests for the 60 metres hurdles competing on the World Athletics Indoor Tour, recording 8.03 in Ostrava on the 3 February, before competing in Madrid, Spain, on 6 February, running 7.97 and then 7.96 seconds in consecutive races.[2] She won the 60 metres hurdles at the Estonian Indoor Championships in February 2026, running 7.99 seconds in Tallinn.[15] In March 2026, she ran in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, reaching the semi-finals.[16][17]