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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 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 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...

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, 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...

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...

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...

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...

Greece's athletes set new records at the Women’s Pole Vault final at the European Athletics Championship which took place in Berlin on Thursday. This was the first time that two Greek athletes got first and second place in the same...

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...

Champion Nafissatou Thiam deprived Katerina Stefanidi of the female Athlete of the Year title at the annual IAAF awards held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Friday. Although forecasts were in favor of champion Stefanidi winning the International Association...

Greek Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi was named female European Athlete of the Year at the 2017 Golden Tracks award ceremony on Saturday. "Only the nomination and the fact that I reached the top 3 of Europe for the...

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...

Greece’s Katerina Stefanidi on Sunday won yet another pole vault competition, her 12th consecutive one, at the Birmingham Grand Prix Diamond League meeting. The Olympic, European and world champion cleared 4.75m to take the top spot. Stefanidi also upped the...

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...