
Yesterday the Greek flag was hoisted twice on the highest mast of the European Championship in Munich.
Antigoni Drisbiotis and Miltos Tedoglu won gold medals in the 35 km walk and the long distance run, respectively. The “golden” Olympic champion with a height of 8.52 m achieved the highest result in the world this year. Throughout the history of the institution, Greece has won 13 gold medals (31 in total).
Antigoni Drisbioti, at the age of 38, became the European champion in the 35 km walk with a time of 2 hours 46 minutes. A champion from Karditsa, who works as a waitress in her parents’ tavern to survive, has shown that age can be put on ice if desired.
A 38-year-old athlete who, after the Olympics and 8th place, some tried to push to hang up her sports shoes, because she was not originally included in the Hellenic Olympic financial support list. Committee.

Cardiciotissa, however, won the gold medal, leaving Raquel González (Spain) in 2nd place with 2.49.10 and Victoria Madaraz (Hungary) in 3rd with 2.49.58.
Efi Kurkutsaki finished 16th while Kyriaki Filtisaku did not finish. At the 35-kilometer mark of the men’s walk, the “pull” in the biceps forced Alexandros Papamichael to stop.
Yesterday’s competitive day in Munich opened with a gold medal for the Greek colors, and ended with gold.
Katerina Stefanidis will try to increase the collection of Greek medals in the pole vault today.
Miltos Tedoğlu defended the title he won four years ago in Belgrade and became the European champion, achieving even the best three results of the competition (8.23 m, 8.35 m and 8.52 m). Only four athletes managed to keep their scepter in this sport.

The second place was taken by the Swede Tobias Modler, and the third place was taken by the Frenchman Julie Pomery. Both jumped 8.06m. Katerina Stefanidis will try to increase her collection of Greek medals today. At 21.00 “Ekaterina ether” will enter the Munich stadium, according to her, as a European champion, and will try to defend her “crown”. Eleni Pollak did not qualify.
However, there are also Greek numbers in the morning program. At 10.35 am, the qualifying round of the hammer throw begins. Christos Franceskakis and Michalis Anastasakis will try to put the hammer on measures that will get them through to the final. At 12.40 pm Dimitra Gnafaki will take part in the 400m breaststroke qualification. Athlete Giorgos Pomaski devoted most of her time to studying this year, but managed to prepare for the European Championship.
The trio in the triple jump did not qualify for the final. Dimitris Tsiamis placed 15th, Andreas Pantazis placed 18th and Nikos Andrikopoulos placed 19th.
Rafaela Spanoudaki, with a score of 11.62, failed to qualify for the 100m semi-finals. Antonis Merlos failed to qualify for the final at altitude, as he did not clear 2.21m, which was within his limits. Took 14th place.
Stamatia Scarveli was eliminated from the hammer throw final. With a throw of 65.42 m, he failed to enter the top 12 in Europe. Vasiliki Haitidu, with a jump of 6.32 m, did not qualify for the long final.
Chrysula Anagnostopoulou placed 12th in the discus throw (56.10 m).
Source: Kathimerini

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