The three medals and the account of the Greek mission at the European Championship in Rome

The European Open Athletics Championships which was held at the “Olympico” in Rome was completed ideally for the Greek mission, since the Emmanuel Karalis managed to win the silver medal in the pole vault final, reaching 5.87m and finishing behind only the unstoppable Dublandis!

This was the third “blue and white” medal in the event, with the beginning taking place last Saturday night (8/6), when Miltos Tedoglou “took off” at 8.56m. in the final of the long jump, setting a competition record and climbing to the highest step of the podium for the third time at Europeans!

Two days later, Katerina Stefanidis also had a tremendous race in the pole vault final, successfully jumping 4.73m. and winning the silver medal, climbing to the podium for the 5th consecutive European championship!

Elina Dzego finished 6th in the javelin final, Antigoni Drisbioti was 16th, Penny Tsinopoulou 19th and Kyriaki Filtisakou 22nd in the 20km final. First of all, Polyniki Emmanuilidou was 8th in the 200m final, Dafni Lavasa finished 24th in the 10,000m final, Kostas Stamoulis, Nikos Stamoulis and Marios Anagnostou finished 14th, 15th and 17th respectively in their 10,000m final, while the 4X100 team he was in the final taking 7th place.

Thus, Greece completed its presence in Rome 13th place in the overall medal tablewith host Italy on top with 24 medals, including 12 gold, 9 silver and 4 bronze.

In detail, the Greek participations in the European open track and field in Rome

Women:

Katerina Stefanidis: Pole vault – silver medal

Elina Jengo: Javelin – 6th place in the final

Polyniki Emmanouilidou: 100 meters – Out of the final (11th with a personal record)

Polyniki Emmanouilidou: 200 meters – 8th place in the final

Elisavet Pesiridou: 100m. hurdles – Out of semi-final (26th in qualifying)

Artemis Anastasiou: 200m. – Out of the final (28th in the qualifiers)

Antigoni Drisbiotis: 20km walk – 16th place in the final

Penny Tsinopoulou: 20km walk – 19th place in the final

Kyriaki Filtisakou: 20km walk – 22nd place in the final

Christina Papadopoulou: Canceled in the final

Iota Vlahakis: Women’s half marathon – 66th place in the final

Stamatia Skarveli: Hammer throw – Out of the final (19th in the qualifiers)

Anastasia Dragomirova: Shot put – Out of the final (25th in the qualifiers)

Maria Maggoulia: Shot put – Out of the final (23rd in the qualifiers)

Oksana Koreneva: Triple jump – Out of the final (13th in the qualifiers)

Maria Pourtsa: Triple jump – Out of the final (17th in the qualifiers)

Ariadni Adamopoulou: Pole vault – Out of the final

Eleni Pollak: Pole vault – Out of the final

Panagiota Dosi: High jump – Out of the final (28th in the preliminaries)

Tatiana Gusin: High jump – Out of final (13th in preliminaries)

Dimitra Gnafaki: 400m. hurdles – Out of semi-final (13th in qualifying)

Dafni Lavasa: 10,000 meters – 24th place in the final

Anastasia Marinakou: 10,000 meters – 16th place in the final

Dimitra Tsoukala: 100m. – Out of the final (23rd in the qualifiers)

4X100 meters team: (Rafaela Spanoudaki, Stella Michaelidou, Elisavet Pesiridou, Artemis Anastasiou) – Out of the final

Men:



Miltos Tendoglou: Long jump – gold medal

Emmanuel Karalis: Pole vault – silver medal

Yannis Nyfantopoulos: 100m – Out of the semi-finals (17th in the qualifiers)

Sotiris Garaganis: 200m. – Out of the final (21st in the semi-final)

Yannis Kariophyllis: 200m. – Out of the semi-final (16th in the qualifiers)

Kostas Douvalidis: 110m. hurdles – Out of semi-final (32nd in qualifying)

Dimitris Levantinos: 400 m hurdles – Out of the semi-finals (18th in the qualifiers)

Kostas Stamoulis: 10,000 meters – 14th in the final

Nikos Stamoulis: 10,000 meters – 15th in the final

Marios Anagnostou: 10,000 meters – 17th in the final

Antonis Merlos: High jump – Out of the final (14th in the preliminaries)

Yannis Rizos: Pole Vault – Out of the final (Cancelled with three invalid jumps in the qualifier)

Dimitris Tsiamis: Triple jump – Out of the final (15th in the qualifiers)

Andreas Pantazis: Triple jump – Out of the final (27th in the preliminaries)

Odysseas Mouzenidis: Shot put – Out of the final (23rd in the qualifiers)

Tasos Latiflari: Shot put – Out of the final (28th in the qualifiers)

Christos Franceskakis: Hammer throw – Out of the final (18th in the preliminaries)

Michalis Anastasakis: Hammer throw – Out of the final (14th in the preliminaries)

Kostas Zaltos: Hammer throw – 12th place in the final

Yannis Kyriazis: Javelin – Out of the final (18th in the preliminaries)

Angelos Andreoglou: Decathlon – 18th place

Alexandros Papamichail: 20 km. wadin – He did not complete the final

Panagiotis Karaiskos: Half marathon – 56th in the final

4X100 meters team: (Vassilis Myrianthopoulos, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, Vassilis Papamargaritis, Yiannis Voskopoulos) – 7th place in the final