A first for Miltos Tedoglou in Cyprus. The “golden” Olympian in the long jump had a jump of 8.25 in his third attempt during the Limassol track and field meeting and showed that he is in good competitive shape, ahead of the European Championships in Rome. The world champion of the event in Budapest started with a jump of 8.01, continued with a void, while, after 8.25, he did 8.24 and finished with a void and 7.97.
Georgia Despollaris didn’t have the competition she would have liked, so she couldn’t chase another sub-2.02 performance in the 800 meters, finishing first, however, with 2.03.29.
Michalis Anastasakis took second place in the hammer throw with a throw of 73.17, his best performance since last February. Christos Franceskakis was fifth with 72.90, while Ivan Menglebei was ninth with 68.87.
Polyniki Emmanuilidou was fourth in the 200 meters with 23.38.
Stamatia Skarveli sent the hammer to 65.30 and took third place.
Antonis Merlos was third in height with 2.17.
In the 110 meter hurdles, Kostas Douvalidis took eighth place with 14.01.
In the women’s length, Maria Stephanopoulou was sixth with 6.28 and Vasiliki Haitidou seventh with 6.17.
Dimitris Levantinos at the Sankt Pelten meeting was fourth in the 400 meters hurdles with 50.95, a performance that is his personal record and improved the 51.04 in “Papaflessia”.
In the same event, Yannis Kamarinos was ninth in the 110 meters hurdles with 14.11 and Christos Roumtsios 12th with 14.16. The two athletes improved their records this year.
In a meeting in Bilbao, Haris Xenidakis was second in his series at 800 meters with 1.50.02.
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