The length of men and women and the triple of men and women were the competitions that “stole” the impressions at the 12th International Jumping Rally held on Wednesday at “Grigoris Lambrakis” in Kallithea, organized by the Kallithea Sports Association under the auspices of SE.
First of all in the women’s length, Vasiliki Haitidou improved her individual record. The young athlete of Nikos Stylianidis had a better effort at 6.49, a performance that gave her second place, having surpassed 6.45 earlier.
The 22-year-old, thus, left in history the 6.36 from the rally of Alexandria.
The winner of the race was the Cypriot Filippa Fotopoulou with 6.79, a performance that is her individual record and limit for participation for the European Athletics Championships in Munich next August.
Antonis Merlos made a good appearance at the height, who exceeded 2.21 and improved his record this year, then failing at 2.24.
In the respective men’s event, the winner in the race was the Indian Murali Srisankar with 8.31, the athlete who shares with Miltos Tentoglou the top performance in the world this year.
This year his record was improved by the Swede Tobias Modler, who had a better jump of 8.27. The surprise was made by the Frenchman Jules Pomery with 8.17 and a new individual record.
Antonis Stylianidis had the best Greek presence with 7.63.
In the men’s triple jump, the Chinese athletes achieved world performance. The “silver” Tokyo Olympian, Yamming Soo, had a jump of 17.20, improved his record this year and became the third top in the world for 2022.
Su had another big jump, 17.18, ahead of Eugene’s World Championship in two months. Yaging was second with 16.93.
Andreas Pantazis had a very good race, having a better jump of 16.49 and improving his record this year.
In the women, Tori Franklin was the winner with 14.34, jumping to 14.20. Oksana Koreneva was the pleasant surprise, as she was second with 13.94.
The third place in the triple jump was occupied by Tourkala Danizmas with 13.89, while the fourth was Spyridoula Karydi with 13.79.
Emmanuel Karalis was not in a good day and exceeded only 5.35 at close range, failing at 5.60.
The rally was honored by the presence of the President of the European Athletics Federation, Dobrimir Karamarinov, and the holder of the European record in length, Robert Emiyan. Also present was the “golden” Olympian in nearby Rio, Katerina Stefanidi.
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