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Swimmer Christou wins silver in men’s 200 m backstroke at Paris Olympics

Greek swimmer Apostolos Christou won a silver medal in the men’s finals of 200 m backstroke at the Paris Olympic Games on Thursday, the first medal in swimming for Greece at any modern Olympic Games. The medal is the second one for Greece after Theodoros Tselidis won bronze medal in …

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Tentoglou wins Gold in men’s long jump in dramatic final leap

Miltiadis “Miltos” Tentoglou won the men’s long jump in the most dramatic fashion on Monday as he leapt 8.41 meters in his final attempt to snatch the gold medal from Cuba’s Juan Miguel Echevarria. Tentoglou was the world leader coming into Tokyo with an 8.60m leap at a domestic competition …

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Olympic champion Stefanidi: Gov’t demands athletes pay back medal bonuses

Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi is fighting the Greek Government’s demand that she and team mate Paraskevi Papachristou repay medal bonuses earned at the 2016 World Indoor Athletics Championships in Portland in Oregon. The 30-year-old United States-based athlete is concerned that the Greek Ministry of Sport is now excluding …

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Lefteris Petrounias wins Gold in European Championship 2018

Eleftherios “Lefteris” Petrounias won the Gold medal with an impressive score of 15.466 points in European Championship 2018 in Glasgow. The 27-year-old Olympic and Word champion defended his European champion title for fourth consecutive year. No wonder they call him the Lord of The Rings. “Greece’s Eleftherios Petrounias takes gold …

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Katerina Stefanidi wins Gold in Pole Vaulter IAAF World Championships

Greece’s Golden girl: Katerina Stefanidi wins Gold in IAAF World Championships London 2017 In another duel for gold, Ekaterini Stefanidi again held off Sandi Morris to claim pole vault gold. Morris and Stefanidi were involved in an epic battle when the Greek won on a countback at the Olympics in …

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