“Bronze” Rafailidou in the European Cup

Her second medal at European Cup of Nicosia Greece conquered. OR Maria Rafailidou It was third in the K23 shooting with a performance of 15.74 meters. Although struggling against older athletes, the 18 -year -old improved this year’s 15.44m and was very close to her individual 15.89m, which she has since last year. In fact, she managed to achieve her biggest shot in her fifth attempt and while she was out of the podium at that time. Rafailidou still shots at 15.22 m, 15.09 m, while “marking” three times 14.99 m.

“I didn’t expect to get a medal in an older age category. I wanted to get steady shots and that was done. It was a better fight than Crete. I am very pleased“Rafailidou said and continued:”I can say that the fifth shot was the only one I didn’t think of anything. And I wanted to get in as quickly as possible. In the rest of the shots I was more anxious”

The winner in the race was Turkala Pinar Akiol with 16.15 m, in her only valid attempt, and second was Italian Anna Muski with 16.12 meters.

In the meantime, the Artemios Adamakis ranked Fifth in men’s discus K23 with 55.53 m.a performance he achieved in his fourth attempt. His athlete George Miliou He failed to reach this year’s 58.49m and claim a place on the podium of the winners. The 22 -year -old already has the qualifying threshold in the European K23, an event in which he will claim a place in the final and a good place.

“I had more experience compared to last year. I had no stress at all, I thought something was going to come out. I was hunting for medal and good performance. It didn’t come out in the morning, I’m never good, the truth is. I haven’t stabilized the technique yet. I believe we will slowly find itAdamakis stressed after his fight. The athlete still shots at 53.16 m, 53.56 m, 53.68 m, 54.61 m and 52.63 meters. The winner of the match was German Steven Richter with 60.72 meters.

Finally, her debut was positive Poulis in the European Cup. The young athlete took 9th place in the K23 pounding with 58.91 meters. Born in 2006 for Soulvolos has already reached the limit for the European Championships and in the Nicosia event, he competed in the biggest category and had the opportunity to gain valuable experiences for the future. Alexandros Papadimitriou’s athlete has an individual record of 59.42m, while in today’s race he had the following shots: 58.37 m, invalid, 58.91 m, 58.76 m, 56.96 m, 56.44 meters.

“I am happy for the fight I did. I was expecting to throw these measures. My body is well. In the last shots I couldn’t react as I wanted. It was a very nice event. I can only be happy to be here. Certainly this race helps me for the European K20 I have in the summer. Today at first I was anxious, I think this will help me manage it in the summer“Poulis said, in its first event with the National Team.