Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou
Nikoleta Kyriakopolou | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 21st March 1986 (age 34) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Athens , Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 167 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 4.83 m (July 4, 2015 in Paris ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | EAR Rethimniakos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: March 3, 2019 |
Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou ( Greek Νικολέτα Κυριακοπούλου ; born March 21, 1986 in Athens ) is a Greek pole vaulter .
Athletic career
In 2008, she retired from the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Valencia and the Olympic Games in Beijing in qualification.
In 2009 she won the Mediterranean Games , but again did not get past the first round at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin . The following year she remained in the finals of the 2010 Indoor World Championships in Doha without a valid attempt and just missed the finals at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona . In 2011 she was ninth at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris and eighth at the World Championships in Daegu .
In 2012 she won bronze at the European Championships in Helsinki and was eliminated from the preliminary round at the Olympic Games in London .
The following year she did not get beyond the qualification at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg and the World Cup in Moscow . In 2014 she was twelfth at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot and seventh at the European Championships in Zurich .
In 2015 she finished fifth at the European Indoor Championships in Prague and took bronze at the World Championships in Beijing with 4.80 m behind Yarisley Silva (4.90 m) and Fabiana Murer (4.85 m).
At the European Athletics Championships 2018 in Berlin, she finished second behind her compatriot Ekaterini Stefanidi in August .
Personal best
- Pole vault stadium: 4.83 m, 4th July 2015, Saint-Denis
- Pole vault hall: 4.81 m, February 17, 2016, Stockholm
Web links
- Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ^ IAAF: Report: women's pole vault final - IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 . August 26, 2015
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kyriakopoulou, Nikoleta |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Κυριακοπούλου, Νικολέτα |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek pole vaulter |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1986 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |