In the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, 1-3 of the month, 651 athletes from 133 countries will participate, including nine Greeks.
Giannis Nyfantopoulos is the one who will enter the Emirates Arena first. The 33-year-old sprinter is looking to improve on his personal best in the 60m of 6.68 from the Ghent meeting. The race qualifier is scheduled for 15:10 and will be Nyfantopoulos’ seventh race of the winter season.
The Periklis Hadjianastasiadis sprinter will participate for the first time in the event and will start in the fourth qualifying round, where he has the fourth best time. The top three from each of the seven heats and the three best times will qualify for the semi-final.
On the first day of the games, the Greek delegation will have its “maiden” participation in the final and we refer to that of Tatiana Gusin in the women’s height at 21:41. The 30-year-old jumper throughout the indoor track season has shown great stability in the jumps at 1.90 and has a better 1.91 this year than the meetings of Miramas and Hustopetse.
Ioanna Siomou’s vaulter, in her first participation in the indoor world championships, will seek to improve this year’s record, having the tenth best performance among the participants in the final, where she will face the competition’s leaders in both indoor and outdoor competitions.
Like this year’s leader, the European open champion, Jaroslava Machucic, with 2.04, Nikola Olislagers with 2.03 and Cunningham with 2.02.
In detail, the 13 athletes of the final height:
Makhuchik (Ukraine) 2.06m/2.04m
Ollislagers (Australia) 2.03m/2.03m
Cunningham (USA) 2.02m/1.97m
Topic (Serbia) 1.97m/1.97m
Honsel (Germany) 1.98m/1.93m
Apostolovski (Slovakia) 1.95m/1.95m
Patterson (Australia) 2.02m/1.93m
Levchenko (Ukraine) 2.02m/1.92m
Lake (UK) 2.02m/1.92m
Gusin (Greece) 1.94m/1.91m
Chumachenko (Ukraine) 1.94m/1.91m
Dubovitskaya (Kazakhstan) 2.00m/1.90m
Stanciu (Romania) 1.96m/1.86m
In detail, the program of the first day:
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