Ekaterini Stefanidi
Sports Digest: World-class jump by Tentoglou
TRACK & FIELD: Teenager Miltos Tentoglou produced a new national Under-20 record in the men's long jump and the fourth best jump in the world this year measuring 8.29 meters at the National Championship that took place over the weekend in Patra.
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Sports Digest: World-leading Stefanidi has a go at the world record
TRACK & FIELD: Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi cleared a world-leading 4.85 meters at the women's pole vault event of the Rome Diamond League meeting on Thursday. She went on to try her luck at 5.07 m. for a new world record, but she could not make it.
Tsipras hails Greek medalists, says athletes need support
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is seen at Maximos Mansion in Athens Tuesday with athletes who represented Greece at the 34th European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, including pole vaulters Katerina Stefanidi and Constantinos Filippidis and triple-jumper Voula Papachristou.
Stefanidi adds European Indoor gold to her collection
Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi won gold at the European Indoor Championship in Belgrade at the women's pole-vault final on Saturday, while triple-jump champion Voula Papachristou landed bronze. They have taken Greece's medal tally to three, one day before the completion of the event.
Athens Street Pole Vault event among Europe's top
European Athletics, track and field's supreme authority in Europe, has included the Athens Street Pole Vault meeting, that takes place the Greek capital every summer, in the list of the Special Premium events for next year.
The well-organized international event will be held for a fifth time in Athens on June 1, 2017. Just like in 2015 and 2016, it will be hosted at Syntagma Square.
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Mastoras and Stefanidi win silver in Prague
By George Georgakopoulos
Greece won two silver medals on the final day of the European Indoor Track & Field Championships in Prague on Sunday, as Antonis Mastoras and Katerina Stefanidi finished second in the men?s high jump and the women?s pole vault respectively.
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