Miltiadis Tentoglou, Katerina Stefanidis and Voula Papachristou: three Greek athletes with excellent performance at the European Athletics Team Championship in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Saturday.
Miltos Tentoglu has confirmed that he is one of the world’s leading jumpers at this time. The Greek champion jumped at 8.30 and moved form 12th position to first.
"I want to say sorry to my Greek team because I scared them a lot…and also my coach." 😅
Miltiadis Tentoglou moved from 12th to first with an excellent third round jump of 8.30m in the long jump. #ETCH2019 pic.twitter.com/4DItb5T8WG
— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) August 11, 2019
Katerina Stefanidis took the lead in the jump by 4.70, giving her the second “12” for Greece.
Maximum points for Greece in the pole vault courtesy of @KatStefanidi!#ETCH2019 pic.twitter.com/c4QajSNKZr
— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) August 10, 2019
Voula Papachristou took the lead in the triple jump with only one valid jump, at 14.48, which proved to be enough, giving the third “12 points” to Greece.
Greece's Paraskevi Papachristou won the women's triple jump with a 14.48m leap as GB's Naomi Ogbeta placed seventh with 13.90m. The javelin was won by France's Alexie Alaïs as she added almost two metres to her PB with 63.46m. Bekah Walton placed 12th with 46.29m. #ETCH2019
— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) August 10, 2019
On the second day of the Championship, the Greek team is in the 9th place with 112 points. France leads with 192.5 points.
