Sport of athletics

Katerina Stefanidi and Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou, the two pole vaulters who took gold and silver for Greece at the European Championships in Berlin on Thursday, have dedicated their win to all the people who suffered in last month's deadly fires in Attica.

Turkish world champion sprinter Ramil Guliyev on Aug. 9 captured the gold medal in the 200-meter men's race in the European Athletics Championships in Berlin.

Greece's Katerina Stefanidi celebrates after a successful attempt in the women's pole vault final at the European Athletics Championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, late Thursday. The 28-year-old added another gold medal to her big-event collection. She wrapped up her latest victory with a third-time clearance at 4.85 meters. Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou, 32, won silver with a 4.80 m jump.

Nicholas Bett, a Kenyan runner who won the 2015 world championship title in the 400-meter hurdles, was killed in an early-morning car crash Wednesday in the country's famed high-altitude training region, police and his coach said. He was 28.

Ramil Guliyev (C)

Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi won the 6th Athens Street Pole Vault on Friday, held at Syntagma Square in central Athens, clearing 4.80 meters.

This performance was her best for the season so far, as she had only managed 4.64 m. until Friday.

Stefanidi, also the world champion, tried to break her own national record of 4.91 m. but failed three times to clear 4.92 m.

Bulgarian Mirela Demireva finished second in the discipline of high jump of the race from the Diamond Athletics League in Stockholm (Sweden), reports Gong.bg.
 
Olympic vice-champion of the Rio 2016 Demireva finished at 200 centimeters, with her third attempt, and for the first time in her career she overcame the master border.
 

Ivet Lalova won 200 meters of the Diamond Athletics League tournament in Stockholm (Sweden).
 
The Bulgarian finished in 22.63 seconds, improving with one hundredth of хер strongest result for the season.
 
The 34-year-old Bulgarian Sprinter had 22.64 seconds to the Diamond League in Rome, where she finished second.
 

A marathon runner's dramatic collapse struck a sour note on the last day of the Commonwealth Games on April 15 as hosts Australia finished runaway winners on the medals table with 80 golds.

Sprint legend Usain Bolt on April 12 accused fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake of "panicking" in the Commonwealth Games 100 meters final -- and can't wait to tease him about it.