The women’s team beat Israel 14-4 to advance to the semi-finals of the European Championship in Split, Croatia. In tomorrow’s (21.30) semi-finals, girls Alexia Kammenu will face Italy, who beat Croatia 16-8.

The national team played without Margarita Pleritu as the national team coach decided to protect her after an elbow injury against Croatia.

The armband was worn by her sister Eleftheria, and throughout the match our teams clearly outperformed Israel, which has Dimitris Mavrotas on the bench.

In the first eight minutes there was only one team in the pool and that was the Greek team. Our teams took the lead 6:0, and Israel scored a goal in the last seconds from a penalty from Maria Bogachenko, who plays with Panionios.

A similar picture was after the match. Our pole women, despite the mistakes, were the main characters, which can be seen from the final result. Myriokefalitaki was the first goal scorer for Greece, scoring four goals, while Tricha and Xenaki scored three goals each.

Today men

The men’s team will meet today (20.00) world champion Spain with the goal of reaching the top four at the European Championship. Thodoris Vlachos asked his athletes to focus on the game and show a “quality performance” as if they passed, they would enter the “medal track”.

Spain has on its roster the most pole vaulters that have competed at the Tokyo Olympics. “We don’t need to be afraid of anything,” the successful coach emphasized.