The historic appearance of Lefteris Petrounias in the final of the hoops, where he added the third Olympic medal (bronze) to his huge career, and the comfortable qualification of Miltos Tedoglou in the final of the long jump, gathered the attention among the efforts of the Greek delegation during today’s Day 9 (4/8) of the Paris Olympics.
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TARGETING
Emmanuela Katzouraki placed 5th in the women’s skeet final in her first Olympic Games with 23/30 successful throws in Satorou.
The Greek champion had the absolute best with 25/25 shots in the 4th and 5th rounds of the women’s skeet qualifiers.
TRACK
Polyniki Emmanouilidou will compete in the 200 meter relay (Monday 5/8) at the “Paris 2024” Olympic Games. The Greek sprinter participated in the 5th qualifying round and finished in 4th place with a performance of 23 seconds and six centimeters and given that the first three athletes from each round qualified directly, she will claim a “ticket” for the semi-final through the replay. In the same series, the Cypriot champion, Olivia Fotopoulou, also participated, who finished 5th with a time of 23.07 and will also run in the repeat.
Miltos Tedoglou is ready to leave his name with indelible letters in the Olympic annals. The Greek Olympian of Tokyo (2021) qualified with typical comfort in the long jump final of the Olympic Games, as the qualifier needed only one jump of eight meters and 32 centimeters, to exceed the qualification limit, which was 8.15m.
Stamatia Skarveli was eliminated from the hammer throw final at the Paris Olympics. The Greek champion, competed in the second qualifying group and had a better throw of 69 meters and 38 centimeters, while in the second attempt she sent her hammer to 66.86m. and the third was invalid. It is recalled that the qualification limit was 73 meters.
With a valid jump of 1.86m, Tatiana Gushin was out of the top eight in the Height final. The Greek champion passed first at 1.86 but then failed three times at 1.91 and was eliminated from the rest. Thus, he took 9th place in the final ranking.
Christos Franzeskakis was left out of the octagon in the Hammer Throw final at the Olympic Games. The Greek champion had one shot at 73.34m. and two invalids, leaving him in 12th place in the final ranking.
SAILING
With 12th place in the fourth race, Cameron Alexandros Maramenidis completed today’s efforts in men’s kite sailing. After this result, the 22-year-old surfer dropped to 12th overall with 25 penalty points as he threw his fourth race as his worst.
With the 11th place in the sixth race, the siblings Ariadni and Odysseas Spanakis completed their efforts today in the mixed category 470 of sailing. After this result, the Greek crew remains in 15th place in the general classification with 53 penalty points, as it “threw away” the fourth race as its worst.
INSTRUMENTAL GYMNASTICS
Lefteris Petrounias added the third Olympic medal to his huge career. With an excellent performance in the rings final of the Paris Olympic tournament, the Greek champion won the bronze medal by accumulating 15,100 points. Petrounias became the first Greek gymnast with three Olympic medals and the all-time world leader in the medal table in this event, after the gold he had in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and the bronze in Tokyo in 2021.
HYDRATION OF WOMEN
Even at the last hour, the women’s national water polo team achieved the victory they needed to advance to the quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics. The representative group prevailed 11-4 against France, in the match that ended the A’ phase of the competition, and occupied the fourth place of the B’ group, in a tie with Italy and the “tricolors”. This means that the “blue and white” will face Australia in the quarter-finals on Tuesday (6/8), while the hosts are the team eliminated from the next round (they would go through if they lost by eight goals, but it seemed that the Greek players did not they chased this).
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