I am often linking tio sites that I find interesting and Tilastopaja is one of those. Google translates the site's name as Statistical Workshop. This describes well what the site is about. It contains current results and lists going back to 1996.
Already the home page is quite interesting since it gives access to the exceptional performances of some of the best athletes of the moment. But, here, the positive things I can say about the site do stop.
As you may notice in the screenshot above the site has a free tier and a members one. Apart from the content one can see in the home page one has free access only to World top-20 lists and the all-time top-30 one.
Even the results of current competitions are reserved to the paying tier. Which brings me to the second negative point. There is written nowhere clearly what does one have to pay, before one initiates the process of registering. Which means that you have first to enter your data and then you are taken (I am guessing here) to a new page where it is explained how much you have to pay. In fact even the About US link does not give any information. I could deduce, in a roundabout way, that the author of the site is Mirko Jalava.
So, although Tilastopaja site can, in principle, be very interesting to athletics fans, I find that it is set up in a rather user unfriendly way and I cannot fully recommend it. Of course you can go over there and make your own idea about the matter.
And you should not worry about the current results being reserved only to paying customers. Carles Baronet's excellent blog is a great alternative.
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