Japan’s fifth largest city, the port city of Kobe, is set to host over 1000 athletes from 104 countries for the 11th World Para-Athletics Championships. At the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium, 168 new para-world champions will be crowned, in an event that is held for the first time in the same year, a few months before the Paralympic Games in Paris.
The Greek delegation that will take part in the event consists of 19 athletes (16 men and three women), who will give their own “battle” and leave on Tuesday for the city of Japan.
Tania Keramyda (F55/56) is the one who “opens” the entries in the discus qualifier on the first day of the games (Friday, 5/17, at 11:15 a.m. Japan time, 05:15 a.m. Greek time).
The efforts of the Greek sportsmen and women will be watched by the president of EOAM-AmeA and head of the mission, Ioanna Karyofyllis, who is traveling next Friday to Kobe.
In detail, the dates and categories in which the Greek athletes compete are:
May 17: Discus (C)-qual.: Tania Keramyda (F55/56)
May 18: Discus (C)-final: Tania Keramyda (F55/56)
400 m. rows (A): Loukas Protonotarios (T36)
Korina: Thanasis Konstantinidis-Dimitris Zisidis (F32)
May 19: 400m. final (A): Loukas Protonotarios (T36)
Ball (C): Zoe Mantoudi (F20)
Length (A) Giorgos Anifantis (T42/61/63)
May 20: Discus (A): Konstantinos Tzounis (F54/55/56)
Javelin (G)-qual.: Tania Keramyda (F55/56)
May 21: Javelin (G)-final: Tania Keramyda (F55/56)
Ball (A): Thanasis Konstantinidis-Dimitris Zisidis (F32)
Ball (A): Stratos Nikolaidis (F20)
May 22: 100m. (A) series: Nassos Gavelas (T11 with guide Thodoros Vrontinos)
Length (A): Stelios Malakopoulos = Anastasios Kourdis (T43/44/62/64)
May 23: Length (A): Konstantinos Kamaras (T37)
100m (A) final: Nasos Gavelas (T11 with guide Thodoros Vrontinos)
May 24: Javelin (A): Manolis Stefanoudakis (F52/53/54)
1500 m. (A): Gavriel Arambatzis (T20)
Length (C): Stella Smaragdi (T45/46/47)
Ball (A) qualifier: Konstantinos Stylianakis (F34)
100m (A) final: Anastasios Vougiouklidis (T35)
May 25: Ball (A) : Konstantinos Stylianakis (F34)
Length (A): Thanasis Prodromou (T20)
Sphere (A): Fotis Dimeris (F42/61/63)
400m (A): Stelios Malakopoulos (T43/62)
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