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27 Olympic and 25 World champions at the “25th Vardinoyannia”

16/07/2009

The “25th Vardinoyannia” meeting which takes place on the 20th July at the athletic center of Gallou “Pavlos I. Vardinoyannis” could be compared to the Olympic Games or even the World Championship. There have been confirmed so far 27 Olympic and 25 World Champions from the whole world for the top meeting of the European Federation. It is obvious that a lot of great stars from the World classical athletics will be present at the Gallou stadium.

Eleven athletes who were Olympic medalists at the Olympic Games in Beijing (2008) as well as 11 athletes who won a medal in Osaka (2007) will be present at the “25th Vardinoyannia”.

Particularly from the 27 Olympic Medalists who will compete six (6) are Gold Medalist one (1) is Silver Medalist and four (4) are Bronze Medalist at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Moreover four (4) are Gold Medalist, four (4) are Silver Medalist and three (3) are Bronze Medalist at the World Championship in Osaka.

Triple Jump is the event which will have the most participations of Olympic and World champions. The Gold Olympic medalist of Beijing Mbango Etone Francoise (Cameroon) and the Olympic winner Savigne Yargelis (Cuba) who came 5th and Sestak Marija (Slovenia) who came 6th. At the Triple Jump Women we will have the participation of the 6th World Champion in Osaka Martinez Magdelin (Italy).

The Javelin Women will be an Olympic class event since we will have the participations of the best four top athletes of the last decade. We will have the participation of the Gold Medalist in Beijing and the Gold Champion in Osaka Barbora Spotakovan (Czech) and the Bronze Olympic Medalist and Silver World Champion Christina Obergfoll (Germany).

Four Olympic winners in Beijing will be present at the 100m. Hurdles Women, the Bronze Medalist Lopes-Schlier Priscilla (Canada), Cherry Damu (USA) who came 4th, Ennis-London Delloreen (Jamica) who came 5th and Jones LoLo (USA) who came 7th.

THE OLYMPIC WINNERS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE «25TH VARDINOYANNIA»

 

 

ATHLETES

COUNTRY

P.

EVENT

1

Barbora Spotakova

Czech

1

Javelin W

2

Gerd Kanter

Estonia

1

Discus Throw M

3

Mbango Etone Françoise

Cameroon

1

Triple Jump W

4

Merritt LaShawn

USA

1

400m. M

5

Robles Dayron

Cuba

1

110m. Hurdles M

6

Veronica Campbell-Brown

Jamaica

1

200M. W

7

Thompson Richard

Trinidad

2

100m. M

8

Christina Obergfoll

Germany

3

Javelin W

9

Ibrahim Camejo

Cuba

3

Long Jump M

10

Lopes-Schliep Priscilla

Canada

3

100m. Hurdles Women

11

Virgilijus Alekna

Lithuania

3

Discus Throw Men

12

Cherry Damu

USA

4

100m. Hurdles W

13

Golubchikova Yuliya

Russia

4

Pole Vault W

14

Pars Krisztián

Hungary

4

Discus Throw M

15

Rabchenyuk Anastasiya

Ukraine

4

400m. Hurdles W

16

Ennis-London Delloreen

Jamaica

5

100m. Hurdles W

17

Savigne Yargelis

Cuba

5

Triple Jump W

18

Wilfredo Martínez

Cuba

5

Triple Jump W

19

Šestak Marija

Slovenia

6

Τriple Jump W

20

Jones LoLo

USA

7

100M Hurdles W

21

Phillips Richard

Jamaica

7

110m. Hurdles M

22

Ziólkowski Szymon

Poland

7

Discus Throw M

23

Charfreitag Libor

Slovakia

8

Discus Throw M

24

Cydonie Mothersill

Cayman Islands

8

200m. W

25

Torri Edwards

USA

8

100m.  W

26

Williams Tiffany

USA

8

400m. Hurdles W

27

Perklis Iakovakis

Greece

8

400m. Hurdles M

 

THE   WORLD CHAMPIONS   WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE «25TH VARDINOYANIA»

 

 

ATHLETES

COUNTRY

P.

EVENT

1

Barbora Spotakova

Czech

1

Javelin W

2

Gerd Kanter

Estonia

1

Discus Throw M

3

Veronica Campbell-Brown

Jamaica

1

100m. W

4

Savigne Yargelis

Cuba

1

Triple Jump W

5

Christina Obergfoll

Germany

2

Javelin W

6

Sanchez Felix

Dominican Republic 

2

400m. Hurdles W

7

Merritt LaShawn

USA

2

400m. M

8

Sanders Nicola

G. Britain

2

400m. W

9

Carmelita Jeter

USA

3

100m. W

10

Charfreitag Libor

Slovakia

3

Discus Throw M

11

Ennis-London Delloreen

Jamaica

3

100m Hurdles M

12

Torri Edwards

USA

4

100m. W

13

Martin Rodney

USA

4

200m. M

14

Robles Dayron

Cuba

4

110m Hurdles M

15

Wilson Nickiesha

Jamaica

4

400m Hurdles W

16

Voisava Lika

Greece

5

Javelin W

17

Pars Krisztián

Hungary

5

Discus Throw M

18

Šestak Marija

Slovenia

5

Triple Jump W

19

Anderson Marvin

Jamaica

6

200m. M

20

Jones LoLo

USA

6

100m Hurdles W

21

Golubchikova Yuliya

Russia

6

Pole Vault W

22

Martínez Magdelín

Italy

6

TRIPLE Jump W

23

Osovnikar Matic

Slovenia

7

100m. M

24

Ziólkowski Szymon

Poland

7

Discus Throw M

25

Williams Tiffany

USA

8

400m Hurdles W

 

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