The most numerous team in Greece's athletics
history
Michalis Nikitaridis
The Greek Federation announced the national athletics team for Sydney, the most numerous team of Greek athletics history. The team was verified just after the international meeting of Patra, the last test for the champions in the country and consists of 48 persons, 27 men and 21 women.
With the only exception of the world triple jump champion Paraskevi Tsiamita, who is suffereing from a stress fracture this year and couldn't recover in time, all the other Seville medallists are to compete in the Olympics.
Among the members of the national team there are enough experienced athletes as well as young girls and men who are expected to be the of the coming years and will also be aiming to medal in Athens 2004.
Paraskevi Patoulidou will participate in the 100 m. and 4X100 m. relay team to become the first Greek athlete to participate in four consecutive Olympics.
The Greek athletes are the following (personal best/season's best)
MEN
100 m. Angelos Pavlakakis (10.11/10.13), Georgios
Theodoridis (10.22/10.29)
200 m. Constantinos Kenteris (10.16 - 20.25), Anastasios Gousis (20.69 -
45.55), Alexios Alexopoulos (20.36/20.71)
400 m. Anastassios Goussis (45.55)
800 m. Panayotis Stroubakos (1.45.00/1.46.42)
400 m. hurdles. Periklis Iakovakis (49.35)
3.000 m. steeple. Georgios Yanelis (8.26.52/8.34.80)
Marathon. Panayotis Charamis (2.13.32)
4X100 m. relay. Angelos Pavlakakis, Georgios Theodoridis, Alexios
Alexopoulos (10.16/10.43), Constantinos Kenteris [Alexandros Terzian (10.20/10.42) -
Aristotelis Gavelas (10.33/10.40)
4X400 m. relay. Anastassios Goussis, Periklis Iakovakis, Stylianos
Dimotsios (46.20/46.28), Georgios Economidis (46.46) [Panayotis Sarris (46.54/46.97),
Stylianos Dimotsios (46.20/46.28)]
High Jump. Lambros Papakostas (2.36/2.34)
Long Jump. Constantinos Koukodimos (8.36/8,09), Dimitrios Serelis (8.00 -
8.08i)
Triple Jump. Stamatis Lenis (17.20), Constantinos Zalagitis (17.18),
Christos Meletoglou (17.12/16.68)
Shot Put. Vaios Tigas (19.47/19.31)
Javelin Throw. Constantinos Gatsioudis (91.69)
Hammer Throw. Alexandros Papadimitriou (80.45), Christos Polychroniou
(79.83/79.59)
50.000 m. Walk. Spyridon Kastanis (3.54.11/3.56.41), Theodoros
Stamatopoulos (3.57.44)
Decathlon. Prodromos Korkizoglou (8.069 p.)
WOMEN
100 m. Ekaterini Thanou (10.83/10.91), Paraskevi Patoulidou (11.27/11.32)
200 m. Ekaterini Koffa (22.67/23.19)
5.000 m. Chryssostomia Iakovou (15.25.16)
10.000 m. Chryssostomia Iakovou (32.34.87/32.41.66)
400 m. hurdles. Chryssoula Goudenoudi (56.90)
High Jump. Niki Bakogianni (2.03/1.88)
Pole Vault. Thaleia Iakovidou (4,21 m.)
Long Jump. Niki Xanthou (7.03/6.81), Despina Papavassilaki (6.75)
Triple Jump. Olga Vasdeki (14.67/13.82)
Shot Put. Kalliopi Ouzouni (18.59 - 19.03i)
Discus Throw. Anastassia Kelesidou (67.70/67.12), Ekaterini Voggoli
(64.82/64.35), Stella Tsikouna (65.13)
Javelin Throw. Mirela Tzelili (67.09/64.51), Angeliki Tsiolakoudi (60.26)
4X100 m. relay. Ekaterini Thanou, Paraskevi Patoulidou, Ekaterini Koffa,
Eufrosyni Patsou (11.49) [Panayota Koutrouli, Chryssoula Goudenoudi]
20.000 m. Walk. Christina Kokotou - Athina Papagianni
Heptathlon. Asimina Vanakara (5.927 p)
