Although he stayed away from his good self and anxiously anxious Emmanuel Karalis won the gold medal in European Championship Closed track and field with the Dutch Felt, as both exceeded 5.90 meters.
After the match, the Greek jumper gave statements to ERT’s camera, and commented that despite the fact that he did the of the worst appearance In the season, in the end everything went well and emerged European champion in the Netherlands.
In detail the statements by Emmanuel Karalis
For the first gold of his career: “Although it was my worst race in the season, I did! I am a champion. My first gold medal. I am grateful and very happy. I share this medal with a very good athlete. Now I’ll be happy with my family and the national team. After the little burning in my hand, I couldn’t jump, because I didn’t feel my hand and in my mind all the scenarios started playing. “
For the love of the world: “I receive the love of the whole world both in Greece and where I fight in every country. It is incredible what happens, where I go people shows me his love and thank them all too! I would like all athletes to feel this love. “
For his next goals: “I continue to the next two matches in Oupsala and Nanjing and I go to jump as high as I can. My goal today was to make my record, maybe even higher, I hope to make it in Sweden. I want to jump standard six meters and in the world I will try to get another medal ».
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