Voula Papachristou

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...

Paraskevi (Voula) Papachristou on Sunday won the silver medal in the triple jump event at the European Indoor Championships that are held in Glasgow. Papachristou jumped 14.50 meters in her first attempt, which is a personal best. It is the second...

Voula Papachristou won the first place and won the gold medal for her 14.60 metre triple jump at the European Championships in Berlin late on Thursday. Papachristou celebrated her gold leap, and immediately dedicated it to the victims of last...

In one of the best times of her career Greek Olympian Voula Papachristou has qualified for the finals in jumping. Moving into the Rio 2016 Olympics women’s triple jump final was no small feat, Papachristou jumped 14.43m on Saturday to...

Greece has earned its second and final medal at the 2016 European Championships. On Sunday, triple-jumper Voula Papachristou took bronze in her event, as Portugal’s Patricia Mamona scored a 14.58 meter jump and Israel’s Hanna Minenko a 14.51 meter jump. Papachristou completed...

Voula Papachristou is celebrating her return to big sports events in the best way. The triple jump champion won third place in the IAAF World Indoor Championship in Portland, with a jump of 14.45 meters. Papachristou managed to win the bronze medal...

The incident of the disqualification of Greek champion Voula Papachristou form the Olympic Games of London due to a racist comment on twitter is part of a big conversation that has started in Greece after the recent national elections...

The extreme far-right Golden Dawn party has deplored the expulsion of a Greek Olympian for comments on Twitter mocking African immigrants and voicing support for the party. A Golden Dawn statement Thursday said triple jumper Voula Papachristou’s punishment was a...

After the Olympics 2012 shock broke out in the Greek and international press today featuring triple-jumper Voula Papachristou and her racist comment on her Twitter account, the Greek athlete has been receiving messages of support in several Facebook profiles...

On July 23, Greek Olympian Voula Papahristou, who has already traveled to London to participate in the upcoming Olympics, wrote a racist comment on her Twitter profile which caused many reactions. "With so many African people living in Greece, mosquitoes...