Päivi Tikkanen

Päivi Tikkanen ( born January 19, 1960 in Savitaipale ) is a former Finnish long-distance runner.

At the World Athletics Championships 1991 in Tokyo, she was in the 3000 -meter run fourth in 8:41,30 min until today Finnish record over this distance. National records were also both their personal bests over 5000m ( 15:15,76 min, August 27, 1989, Lohja ), 10,000 m ( 31:45,02 min, June 30, 1992 Helsinki) and Half Marathon ( 1:10:35 h, September 3, 1994, Stockholm ) as well as her winning time at the Berlin Marathon 1989 ( 2:28:45 h). In 1993 she won the Berlin Half Marathon.