Greece won three medals at the Indoor Track & Field Europeans in Istanbul over the weekend, with Miltos Tentoglou winning gold, while Andrikopoulos and Karalis finished second.
TRACK & FIELD
Miltiadis (Miltos) Tentoglou, of Greece, makes an attempt in the men’s long jump qualification at the European Athletics Indoor Championships at Atakoy Arena in Istanbul, Friday.
Greece’s Katerina Stefanidi reacts during the women’s Pole Vault at the European Championships in Munich on Thursday.
Antigoni Ntrismpioti (also spelled Drisbioti) has won the gold medal in the women’s 35km race walking at the European Athletics Championships 2022 in Munich.
Olympic gold medallist Miltos Tentoglou narrowly missed out on the sole gold medal that has eluded him, i.e. that of the World Track & Field Championships, as in the early hours of Sunday (Greek time) he finished second in the long jump final.
Long-jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou added another major title to his list, winning gold at the World Indoor Championships on his 24th birthday.
The Winter Olympics usually escape my attention. But I do want to see the Olympics in Beijing.
Greek runner Fotis Zisimopoulos won the 39th Spartathlon, the ultra-marathon race from Athens to Sparta in southern Greece, on Saturday, by an impressive margin of one hour and 20 minutes.
Greece’s Athanasios Ghavelas and guide Sotirios Gkaragkanis celebrate after setting a new world record and winning gold at Men’s 100m in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, on Thursday.
Katerina Stefanidi of Greece waves in the final of the women’s pole vault at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, in Tokyo.
Katerina Stefanidi of Greece in action during the women’s pole vault qualifying event at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, on Monday.
Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece won the men’s long jump in the most dramatic fashion on Monday as he leapt 8.41 metres in his final attempt to snatch the gold medal from Cuba’s Juan Miguel Echevarria.
Greek long-jumper Miltos Tentoglou measured a world leading effort in the final of the European Indoor Championships in Poland on Friday to make it two in a row in this competition.
Greek Olympic shooting champion Anna Korakaki will be the first-ever woman to be the first to carry the Olympic Flame, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) announced on Thursday.
Jonathan Busby speaks to Kathimerini about one of the most inspiring moments in sports that took place in Doha, Qatar, on the first night of the track and field world championships.
Katerina Stefanidi, of Greece, bronze, Anzhelika Sidorova, center, who participates as a neutral athlete, gold, and Sandi Morris, of the United States, silver after the women's pole vault final at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday. [Petr David Josek/AP]
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