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Greek Pole Vaulter Katerina Stefanidi a Candidate for IOC Athletes' Commission

Greece's recent Olympic gold medalist in the pole vault Katerina Stefanidi was confirmed on Thursday as an official candidate for membership in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission. The election will be held during the Tokyo Olympic Games...

Katerina Stefanidi Makes History After Winning Fourth Gold Medal at IAAF Diamond League

Greek world champion Katerina Stefanidi won the women’s pole vault competition on Friday night in Brussels at the IAAF Diamond League. The Greek champion added another gold medal to her rich collection of trophies, as this was the fourth consecutive...

Katerina Stefanidi Wins Another Gold Medal at IAAF Diamond League

World champion Katerina Stefanidi won the women's pole vault competition at the IAAF Diamond League in Zürich on Thursday, adding another gold medal to her rich collection of trophies. The Zurich medal was Stefanidi's third Diamond League trophy. Stefanidi won the...

Katerina Stefanidi Wins Bronze Medal in Birmingham Championship

Greek pole vault athlete Katerina Stefanidi won third place at the World Athletics Championship held in Birmingham, jumping 4.80m. This was the first competition that the Greek Olympic Champion did not win the gold medal after 19 consecutive wins. The...

Katerina Stefanidi’s Outburst: I am Greek and European!

Katerina Stefanidi reacted angrily to suggestions in social media that she cannot claim the title of Europe's top athlete for 2017, as long as she lives mostly in the US. The Olympic and World champion in pole vaulting responded to...

Greek Pole Vaulter Katerina Stefanidi Wins Gold At London World Championships (video)

Katerina Stefanidi won her third gold gold medal in a year, breaking Greece's paul vault record with a 4,91m jump during the World Championships in London on Sunday. She became the first woman in the history of Greek sport, who...

Warm Reception for Greek Gold Olympic Medalist Katerina Stefanidi

Gold Medalist in women's pole vault, Katerina Stefanidi, arrived in Athens on Wednesday afternoon following her Olympic victory. Representatives of the Greek track and field association, SEGAS, greeted her at the Athens International Airport with flowers and a large...

Katerina Stefanidi Wins Gold at Pole Vault in Rio Olympics

Katerina Stefanidi won the gold medal for Greece at the women's Olympic pole vault final in Rio on Friday. Stefanidi cleared 4.85m taking the sixth medal for Greece at the Rio Olympics. Sandi Morris of USA also cleared 4.85, but took...

Watch Katerina Stefanidi Fly Over Pole Vault at 4.80m [video]

Awesome Katerina Stefanidi showed that she was in great form in the lead-up to the Rio 2016 Olympics by flying over 4.86m in the pole vault at the Filothei Athletics Gala meet - making the best result for 2016....

Katerina Stefanidi Wins Silver at European Athletics Championships

Greece's athlete Katerina Stefanidi, 24, won the silver medal in pole vault at the 2014 European Athletics Championships taking place from August 12 to 17 in Zurich. The young woman from Filothei, Athens, vaulted over 4.60 metres to come in second....

Stefanidi Comes in Fourth in Pole Vault; Kyriakopoulou Eighth

Greece's longtime champion Katerina Stefanidi came in a heartbreaking fourth in the finals of women's pole vault at the Tokyo Olympics.

Greece’s Stefanidi Wins Bronze at World Athletics Championship

Katerina Stefanidi won bronze in the women’s pole vault at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha on Sunday, with a season-best clearance of 4.85 metres. The former world champion and Olympic gold medalist could do no better than landing...

Stefanidi, Tentoglou, Papachristou First in European Athletics Championship in Poland

Katerina Stefanidi, Miltos Tentoglou and Voula Papachristou on Saturday finished first in their respective sports giving Greece three 12-pointers on the second day of the European Team Championship in Bydgoszcz, Poland. In chronological order, Tentoglou jumped 8.30 in the long...

Stefanidi and Kyriakopoulou Get 1st and 2nd Place in Pole Vault in Shanghai (video)

Katerina Stefanidi and Nicole Kyriakopoulou were off to a great start in the Shanghai Diamond League on Saturday, jumping 4.72m both in pole vault jumping and getting first and second place respectively. Stefanidi was the winner of the race, reaching...

Stefanidi Takes Second Place at Boston Indoor Athletics

Olympic women's pole vault champion, Greece's Katerina Stefanidi, won second place at the Boston Indoor Grand Prix Athletics competition on Saturday. This meet is the first of six in the IAAF World Indoor Tour. US Champion Katie Nageotte cleared 4.86...