Born in Bulgaria on July 4, 1993, Kristian Gkolomeev, with a height of 2.01m and a weight of 90 kg, made history, equaling the fifth place occupied by Spyros Gianniotis in the 1,500m freestyle in 2004, while he is the only Greek swimmer who has competed in an Olympic final outside Athens. Kristian Gkolomeev: Secured the 5th place in Men’s 50m freestyleĪfter securing the 5th place in men’s freestyle, the Greek swimmer completed his great journey at the Tokyo Olympics. Miltos became the second Greek athlete in the history of the Olympic Games to win a gold medal in the long jump.Īt a meeting in Kallithea on May 26, 2021, he set an individual record in open track and field, achieving the second best performance of all time in Greece with a jump of 8.60m! This jump is the best performance in the world for the year 2021. With a jump of 8.41m in his last attempt, he achieved the best performance in Tokyo and raised the Greek flag high as an Olympic gold medalist. After a jump of 8.38m in the indoor track and field championship of 2019 in Glasgow and a jump of 8.25m in the championship of 2018 in Berlin, the great Greek athlete managed to secure first place with a jump of 8.35m in the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championship in Torun, Poland, to be followed by an even bigger feat in Tokyo this summer. Miltos Tentoglou: Olympic Gold medalist in the Long Jumpīorn on March 18, 1998, Miltos Tentoglou, originally from Grevena, became a few months ago the second Greek track and field athlete to win two consecutive European gold medals after Katerina Thanou. The Olympic gold medalist and certainly the most successful athlete of the rings, being 3 times world champion and 5 times European champion, has been a member of the Stoiximan family since 2014, when the company through the program "Adopt an athlete" supported the three Greek gold medalists of Rio Olympics, and he’s now a member of Stoiximan Tokyo Team. This was his second Olympic medal, after the Gold he had won in Rio, making our country once again proud. In a very demanding final and having already surpassed himself to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, Lefteris won the bronze medal. Although the recovery was difficult and long lasting, the Olympic gold medalist stubbornly and persistently managed to return strong by winning first place at the World Cup in Doha, qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.
The top athlete of the Rings explains to Leader Talk how a serious shoulder injury stood in the way of Tokyo, as in January 2019 he had to undergo surgery in Switzerland. Lefteris Petrounias: Bronze medalist in Tokyoīorn in Athens in 1990, Lefteris Petrounias, father of two, is one of the most significant Olympic athletes our country has ever produced. Let’s discover together the people behind top performances as we travel in this arduous and wonderful journey together with the athletes - members of Stoiximan Tokyo Team who qualified and succeeded. In a year dominated by the scourge of the pandemic, the Olympics managed to strike a chord with the world, and our athletes, always making the greatest possible effort, stunned us with their performances against great opponents and countries.
The Olympic Games mean something more to Greece than to any other country.
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