The 19th Filothei Women Gala got under way on Wednesday in the northern suburb of Athens. The women-only international track and field competition draws athletes from Greece and abroad. Events include high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, 100-meter dash and 100 m hurdles. [Panagiotis Moschandreou/ANA-MPA]
The winning streak of Katerina Stefanidi came to an end in Birmingham, as the Olympic pole vault champion finished third at the World Indoor Championships on Saturday, to earn Greece’s sole medal in the event. Teenage sensation Emmanouil Karalis finished fifth in the men’s pole vault.
Greek teenage sensation Emmanouil Karalis broke the world junior indoor record in pole vault on Sunday at the national championship that took place in Piraeus.
Greece manager Michael Skibbe voiced his anger at FIFA for the ban on Costas Manolas.
Pole-vault sensation Katerina Stefanidi received the award of the best female athlete in track and field in Europe for 2017, having swept its opponents in the World Championship, the European Indoor Championship and all IAAF Golden League meetings she took part in this year.
Lithuanian runner Aleksandr Sorokin won the 35th edition of Spartathlon, one of the most challenging and historical ultra-marathon races, in Sparta on Saturday.
Pole vault sensation Katerina Stefanidi extended its unbeaten run to 15 triumphs winning the Diamond League final in Brussels on Friday clearing 4.85 meters.
Panayiotis Retsos has become the most expensive player ever to leave the Greek league, as Bayer Leverkusen has forked out a reported 22 million euros to acquire the 19-year-old Olympiakos defender.
Greece’s Ekaterini Stefanidi won her 12th consecutive pole vault competition at the Birmingham Grand Prix Diamond League meeting on Sunday.
Katerina Stefanidi has added the World Championship title in London to her Olympic gold medal in Rio last year, after triumphing in the pole vault final on Sunday with a national record of 4.91 meters.
Greek athlete Paraskevi Papachristou makes an attempt in the women’s triple-jump qualification during the World Athletics Championships in London on Saturday. Papachristou, a European bronze medalist, was not in the best of form on the day and failed to make the triple-jump final, managing only 13.40 meters and 13.75 meters – way below the 14.20-meter threshold needed. London is hosting the IAAF and IPC 2017 World Championships. It is the British capital’s biggest athletics event since it hosted the 2012 Olympic Games. [AP/Matthias Schrader]
Pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi made it three in a row at the IAAF Diamond League meetings so far this year finishing first in London on Sunday,
The Greek women's team finished fourth in the 2017 Eurobasket in the Czech Republic as it lost to France 77-55 in Saturday’s semifinal and 78-45 to Belgium in the third-place game on Sunday.
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.
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.
It may have been just a few hours before she was due for surgery, but for Amalia Matthaiou, the morning of January 26 started like any other: She put on her running shoes and hit the streets of Thessaloniki.
