Katerina Stefanidi
Katerina Stefanidi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Katerina Stefanidi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 4th February 1990 (age 30) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Athens , Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 171 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Pole vault | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | Stadium: 4.91 m Hall: 4.90 m |
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society | AO Filotheis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: August 30, 2018 |
Katerina Stefanidi ( Greek Κατερίνα Στεφανίδη ; also Ekaterini Stefanidi / Αικατερίνη Στεφανίδη ; * February 4, 1990 in Athens ) is a Greek pole vaulter and Olympic champion as well as world and reigning European champion.
Athletic career
At the youth world championships she won gold in Marrakech in 2005 and silver in Ostrava in 2007 .
At the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz in 2008 she won bronze. In 2011 she won silver at the U23 European Championships in Ostrava and bronze at the Universiade in Shenzhen .
In 2012 she became an NCAA champion starting at Stanford University . At the European Championships in Helsinki she succeeded in the final no valid attempt, and at the Olympic Games in London she was eliminated in qualification.
At the 2013 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg , she did not get past the first round, and at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich , she won silver.
In 2015 she won silver at the European Indoor Championships in Prague and failed in the preliminary round at the World Championships in Beijing . At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 , she won the title with a jump of 4.81 m.
At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 , she won the competition with 4.85 m. She became the first Greek woman to become Olympic champion in the pole vault. In the 2017 indoor season, Stefanidi showed her consistency again and she won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade with a jump of 4.85 m. At the 2017 World Championships in London , she won the gold medal with a jumped height of 4.91 m, ahead of Sandi Morris , Robeilys Peinado and Yarisley Silva , making her world champion for the first time. Stefanidi won four major tournament titles in 13 months and is also European, Olympic, European indoor and world champion.
At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , she lost a final for the first time after 19 wins in a row, when she was defeated by Sandi Morris and Anselika Sidorowa with a jump of 4.80 m and won the bronze medal in Portland, as in 2016 .
At the European Championships in Berlin in 2018 , she won the gold medal with a jumped height of 4.85 m.
From 2016 to 2019 she won the Diamond League four times in a row .
In 2020 Stefanidi won the long-distance competition called Ultimate Garden Clash with Katie Nageotte and Alysha Newman on May 16 .
Personal best
Pole vault
- Open air: 4.91 m, 6 August 2017 in London ( Greek record )
- Hall: 4.90 m, February 20, 2016 in New York City ( Greek record )
Web links
- Katerina Stefanidi in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Katerina Stefanidi Profile Greek Athletics Federation (Greek)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics/status/894296842787323904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.contra.gr%2FSports%2FTrackandField%2Fsta-oywrania-h-athmia -stefanidh.4795198.html
- ^ IAAF: Report: women's pole vault final - IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stefanidi, Katerina |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stefanidi, Ekaterini; Στεφανίδη, Κατερίνα; Στεφανίδη, Αικατερίνη |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek pole vaulter |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th February 1990 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |