Mirela Manjani

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Μιρέλα Μανιάνι athletics
Full name Mirela Manjani
nation GreeceGreece Greece
birthday December 21, 1976
place of birth DurrësAlbania
size 165 cm
Weight 64 kg
Career
discipline Javelin throw
Best performance 67.51 m
society Logo Olympiacos Piraeus.svg Olympiacos Piraeus
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver Sydney 2000 Javelin throw
bronze Athens 2004 Javelin throw
IAAF logo World championships
gold Seville 1999 Javelin throw
silver Edmonton 2001 Javelin throw
gold Paris 2003 Javelin throw
European championships
gold Munich 2002 Javelin throw

Mirela Manjani ( Greek Μιρέλα Μανιάνι , also Mirela Tzelili ; born December 21, 1976 in Durrës ) is a former Greek javelin thrower who was twice world champion and won Olympic medals in 2000 and 2004. She was active for the Olympiacos club .

Manjani first took part in the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 , at that time for her native country Albania. At the opening ceremony she was the flag bearer. In 1997 she came to Greece, took on the Greek citizenship by marrying the weightlifter Giorgios Tzelili and started for Greece for the first time at the 1997 World Championships in Athens. Like a year earlier in Atlanta, Manjani failed in the preliminary fight.

Since she won the 1999 World Championships in Seville with the world record of 67.09 m, she has been one of the stars of athletics in Greece. Silver medals at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, as well as winning the title again at the 2003 World Championships in Paris made her the great hope of gold for the Greeks at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, but she only won the bronze medal.

In 2002 she was able to become European champion with a width of 67.47 m ahead of the German Steffi Nerius. In the same year the marriage with Tzelili was divorced.

Mirela Manjani was 1.65 m tall and had a competition weight of 64 kg.

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Individual evidence

  1. Mirela Manjani Today (Greek)