Fresh from the silver medal he won a few days ago at the European Championships in Rome, the Emmanuel Karalis made an excellent appearance in the Fly Athens which was held in front of Kallimarmaro, taking first place with 5.82 m!
In fact, he arrived and tried to shoot it down again Panhellenic record of Kostas Filippidis (5.91m from 2015), trying to jump over the 5.92 mbut narrowly dropping the bar on his first attempt.
The Greek pole vault champion started his efforts from 5.52m and easily passed the bar, performing excellent jumps up to 5.82m, a height that also gave him the first place, leaving behind the Belgian, Broders (5.72m). , and the Chinese, Bokai Huang (5.62m).
Then, Karalis raised the bar to 5.92m, in his attempt to set a new Panhellenic record, even coming a breath away from succeeding, since in his first excellent jump he barely dropped the bar.
“I am very tired, I spent a week with incredible emotions, a lot of stress, a lot of pain, a lot of joy. I came first here too, trying to set a Panhellenic record. I am very happy that so many people came. I hope there will be more next year. First time I set the bar so high. I am an athlete to do 6 meters. We have to take it step by step, first I do the Panhellenic, then I get a medal in the Olympiad and then or even before, I jump the 6 meters”Karalis said in front of the ERT camera after his first.
The ranking in Fly Athens:
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