Nine more medals for Greece at the Adults and Youth World Championships

The present and the future of the Greek Zios Zitsos continues his amazing performances in the U21, U18 and U16 World Championships.

A total of nine medals were added to the Greek collection, with Vassilis Nikas being the one in whose honor the National Anthem was played, after winning the gold medal at -56k. fighting of the U16 category.

“I dedicate this to my coaches, my friends and family, but also to my teammates, because of whom I got this far. It was an incredible experience, I feel very proud, I wish to experience this again” said the world champion.

Our country also had three silver medals with the Duo U16 from Maria Galani and Panagiota Prassa, as well as from the excellent Ioanna Spaidiotis and Giorgos Atie, while today’s collection was completed by five bronze medals.

Pavlos-Konstantinos Markoulakis (+94k. No-Gi), Marios Themistoklis Kalantzopoulos (-94k. No-Gi), Stavros Georgiadis (-62k. No-Gi), Georgia Spaidioti (- 63kg No-Gi) and Antonis Giannouris (-40kg fighting).

The positions of the Greeks in detail

U21

-62 Mr. No-Gi: 7th Yiannis Louloudis

-69 Mr. No-Gi: 5th Philippos Ioannis Doukoglou, 7th Michael Synolakis,

-77 Mr. No-Gi: 7th Riga Sad

-85kg No-Gi: 4th Michael Lyronis-Boudos

-94 k. No-Gi: 3rd Marios Themistoklis Kalantzopoulos, 5th Angelos Kritikopoulos

+94k. No-Gi: 2nd Giorgos Atie, 3rd Pavlos Konstantinos Markakis

U16

-40k. fighting: 3rd Antonis Giannouris

-44k. fighting: 2nd Ioanna Spaidiotis, 5th Chryssa Hatzidakis

-44k. fighting: 9th Paraskevas Damanakis, 9th Panagiotis Kokotakis

-48k. fighting: 5th Essam Mostafa

-48k. fighting: 7th Margarita Papadopoulou, 9th Sofia Anagnostopoulou

-52k fighting: 7th Giorgos Peltekis

-56 Mr. fighting: 1st Vassilis Nikas, 5th Michael Delilai

-52 Mr. No-Gi: 7th Oliver Grotsch

-52nd No-Gi: 5th Panagiota Vikatos, 7th Theodora Apostolia Yatagana

-56 Mr. No-Gi: 9th Miltiadis Bonakis, 9th Vassilis Nikas

-57 Mr. No-Gi: 5th Katerina Kaniari

-62 Mr. No-Gi: 3rd Stavros Georgiadis, 9th Panagiotis Voutsinos

-63 Mr. No-Gi: 3rd Georgia Spaidiotis

-69 Mr. No-Gi: 7th Andreas Basdekis

Women’s Duo: 2nd Galani/Passa

Men’s duo: 9th Kakepis/Katsimbris, 10th Georgoutzos/Vakondios

*Organizers of the competitions are the Hellenic Jiu Jitsu Federation EFEOZZ and the World Federation JJIF.

Co-organizers of the games are the Ministry of Sports and the Region of Crete, while the World Championships are held under the auspices of the Municipality of Heraklion. The communication sponsor of the games is the Athenian Macedonian News Agency, TV Creta and Creta24.gr