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December
23. Katerina Thanou and Costas Kenteris named Athletes of the Year for
Greece
Two
stars of athletics named athletes of 2000 for Greece, after the poll organized
by Greek sports journalists. The results of the poll are:
Men.
1. Costas Kenteris (Olympic Champion, athletics, 1574 points), 2. Pyrros
Dimas (Olympic Champion, weightlifting, 1211), 3. Kachi Kakiashvili (Olympic
Champion, weightlifting, 818), 4. Michalis Mouroutsos (Olympic Champion,
tae-kwo-do, 615), 5. Demosthenis Tambakos, Olympic silver medallist, gymnastics,
510), 6. Costas Thanos (4th place, wrestling, 108).
Women.
1.
Katerina Thanou (Olympic silver medallist, athletics, 1690 points), 2.
Anastassia Kelesidou (Olympic silver medallist, athletics, 1180), 3. Mirella
Tzelili (Olympic silver medallist, athletics, 995), 4. Ioanna Chatzioannou
(Olympic bronze medallist, weightlifting, 634), 5. Heidi Antikatsidi (6th
place, equastrian), 6. Morfoula Dona (7th place, gymnastics)
December
02. Kenteris and Thanou in Golden Leaque series 2001
Two
of the Greek Sydney's medallists, Konstantinos Kenteris and Katerina Thanou
are to strart their preparation for the next year in a few days. Althought
their participation in indoor meetings is doubtful, both aim to the Golden
League series and of course to the World Champs of Edmondon. Kenteris will
run 100 m. races in the GL meetings, where his personal best is 10"16.
set in the previous season, while he will do again 200 m. in Canada.
No
News is Good News...
However,
we received a letter, signed by mr. Dimitrios Filis, Legal Counsellor of
the "Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games - Athens 2004". It is news,
so it is bad news:
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Dear
Mr. Christopoulos,
we
are the "Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games - Athens 2004" (Athens
2004 for the rest of the letter) and you refer to us at your website at
"www.athletix.gr".
As
you may be already aware of, the Organizing Committees of the Olympic Games
have the exclusive right to use the names that are linked to the Olympiade
they organize. As far as Athens 2004 is concerned, after the Laws 2598/1998
p.3 and 2819/2000 p.2, the Olympic Emblem, as well as terms like, indicatively,
"Olympic", "Olympiade", "Athens 2004", "Olympic Games - Athens 2004", "Olympic
Games - Greece" and any other relevant term in greek or any foreign laguage
is protected by the law over emblems. Any use of the Emblem and the above
terms, in the Internet, or anywhere else, without the written permission
of Athens 2004 is, after the above, a legal crime, threatened by harsh
penalties.
Therefore,
the use of the emblem, the alteration or copying of it, as well as any
link to our website is allowed only after a written applocation to our
Company's Marketing Section and is you are granted the permission, you
may use them.
[...]
With
reference to our goals (they are described at the part of the letter we
omited) we ask you to withdraw the emblem of "Athens 2004" and all links
to our website though the emblem or any relevant term or any alteration
of it, which are acts that cause confusion to the users and harm us both
morally and financially.
We
hope that you will fulfill our wish immediately and will stop using the
above, without furthetmore annoyance from us or legal activities and will
help in this way the common greek goal.
Anticipating
to your positive answer, we thank you a priori.
Regards,
for
the "Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games - Athens 2004", Dimitrios
Fiklis, Legal Counsellor.
6.11.2000
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After
the above, "Athletix.Gr" aware of its responsibilty before "the common
greek goal" removed from its webpages the Emblem as well as all links to
the official website of "Athens 2004", in order not to "cause confusion
to the users and harm both morally and financially" the company "Athens
2004".
In
addition, we ask a public apology for the use of the emblem in order to
link to the official site of "Athens 2004".
Also,
we would like to congratulate the company "Athens 2004" for its -at the
proper time- facing of the major problem of unauthorized links to its webpage.
something like that proves that allegations like the ones the media often
calls against it as far as the organization of the Olympic Games of 2004
is concerned, are completely groundless. We hope it will continue to confront
with the same passion all the problems it still has to face,less than 4
years before the organization.
However,
we declare that we shall continue to use terms as, "indicatively", "Olympic",
"Olympiade", "Olympic Games" because we are not aware of any other term
that describes the athletic event towhich we refer, without harming the
commercial trading upon it by the company "Athens 2004".
We
also ask all those who are touched by the use of links that "Athletx.Gr"
has to their sites, to inform us, and we are sorry if we have harmed them
in the way we did it to the Company "Athens 2004".
PANAYOTIS
CHRISTOPOULOS
MICHALIS
NIKITARIDES
November
05. Nikos Pollias won again the
Athens' Marathon
Nikolaos
Pollias won for the 4th time the International
Marathon of Peace "Gregoris Lambrakis" held today at the original Marathon
course, from the ancient Marathon to the Panathinaikos Stadium of Athens.
Second was Japanese Higushi, while Georgia Ambatzidou won the women's race.
November
04. Kenteris, Thanou and Gatsioudis on the top of the European Lists
2000
Three
Greek champions dominated the
European
Lists 2000, while a total of 13 athletes and relay teams are among
the top 10 of their events, two less
than the previous year. Three more athletes get a position among
#11 and #15. Mirella Tzelili is the best Greek at the European
all time list, as she is second behind Hattestad, where this year we
had the new entry of Konstantinos Kenteris who is now the 5th all time
European 200 m. runner.
August
23. Iakovou broke the National Record and goes to Sydney
Chrysostomia
Iakovou broke the 5.000 m. national record for Greece, as she ran the distance
in 15' 25" 16. at Viareggio, Italy and made the Olympics standard. Thus,
Iakovou became the 42nd Greek athlete who has met the A standard and secured
a position in the national olympics team.
August
19. Vasdeki starts with 13, 82 m.
As
expected, Olga Vasdeki started the season today in
Kalamata, jumping 13, 82 m., but the most important in this case is
that she seems to have completely overcome the latest injury problems.
Christos Meletoglou jumped 16, 49 m., Niki Xanthou won the long jump with
6, 78 m. and Thaleia Iakovidou the pole vault with 4, 00 m. Ismail Ibrahim
of Qatar won the 400 m. race in 44" 75. Finally, Nikos Pollias won the
Helsinki Marathon in 2: 18' 47. but failed to meet the olympic standard.
August
07. Greek athletes tested positive for drugs
Two
members of the Greek Olympic team failed to pass the obligatory drug test
that the Greek Olympic Federation performed before Sydney for all the athletes
that have qualified for the Olympic Games. Bicyclist Georgios Cheimonetos,
a world champion with the Greek Pusruit team at Colombia two years ago,
and Alexandra Tziouti, who surprisingly broke the 10km Walk NR ten days
ago, tested positive for banned substances. Cheimonetos tested positive
for Stanozolol and Tziouti for Nandrolone. Both athletes claim that the
substances were found in certain drugs they use for health problems and
that they have proof -by doctors' recipes- that they need the drugs. For
the time being they are both excluded from the Olympic team, while their
federations are to decide their punishment.
August
05-06. Tassos Goussis breaks 400 m. NR and Zalaggitis flies at 17,
18 m.
The
Greek
U23 Championships were held in Kastoria and two young athletes who
will compete in Sydney were the stars of the games. Tassos Goussis broke
Kenteris' NR at the 400 m. with 45" 55. Kenteris now holds only the NR
at the 200 m. which will be the event in which he will compete in Sydney.
Kostas Zalaggitis jumped 17,18 m. at the triple Jump and had another great
jump at 17,21 m. with a wind of 2.2 m./sec.
July
29-30. Costas Kenteris runs a 10" 20 in Athens.
Although
most of Greek champions who have made the standards for the Olympics have
passed to a second period of training, many of them participated
in the final phase of Greek Clubs
Champs, trying to help their club. Costas Kenteris set the best mark
of Athens' group on the first day, winning the 100 m. race in 10" 20. Alexandra
Tziouti broke the 10.000 walk record for Greece. On the second day Kenteris
doubled his wins ranning the 200 m. race in 20" 52., while Thaleia Iakovidou
equalled the pole vault record at 4, 20 m. In the group of Trikala, Stella
Tsikouna threw 65, 13 m. to set the second all time mark for Greece.
July
9. Exceeding 80 metres
Alexandros Papadimitriou
broke the hammer throw national record with 80, 45 m. on the second day
of the Greek National Championships.
Lambros Papakostas, being in shape again, cleared 2, 34 m. while Anastassios
Goussis doubled his wins running the 200 m. in 20" 69. 2000
Lists: [men][women]
all time lists: [men][women]
July
9. Four Olympics, four events, one athlete: Voula Patoulidou
Voula
Patoulidou, the 100 m. hurdles Olympic Champion of Barcelona made the standard
for Sydney, running 100 m. in 11" 32. Thus, she became the first Greek
athlete to participate in four Olympic Games. Patoulidou was a member of
4X100 m. team in Seoul, won the gold medal in Barcelona at 100 m. hurdles,
qualified for the long jump final in Atlanta and now is ready to run 100
m. and 4X100 relay in Sydney. Patoulidou, who marked the spring of Greek
athletics being the motive for the younger athletes during the last decade,
is 35 years old and is still here...
July
8. Greek NC 2000
The
Greek
National Championships have started today at the Olympic Stadium of
Athens and seem to be the best of the last years. The first day was marked
by impressing dash races where top marks were set by Katerina Thanou (10"
93.), Angelos Pavlakakis (10" 13.) and Kostas Kenteris (10" 16.). Kalliopi
Ouzouni broke the shot put record with 18, 59 m. while Anastassios Goussis
ran the 400 m. race in 45"63. Double hammer record by Amalia Laboura (62,
69 m.) and, few minutes later, by Evi Tsamoglou (63, 20 m.)
July
2. Korkizoglou breaks national record and makes Sydney's standard.
Prodromos
Korkizoglou dominated the First League of the European
Combined Events Cup, held in Switzerland, with a national record at
8.069 p. The Greek team placed second and promoted to the Super League.
The women team placed also second in the Second League, held in Denmark
and promoted to the first league. Links:[Second
League]
July
1-2 Tsikouna throws 64,22 m. in Kavala. Tsiliggiri breaks pole vault
record.
Stella
Tsikouna set the best mark of the first day of Balkan
Games, held in Kavala, Greece. Tereza Marinova jumped 14,44 m. and
Georgi Guset threw 19,97 m., while Marios Evaggelou cleared 5, 40 m. to
break national junior's record for Greece. On the second day Georgia Tsiliggiri
broke pole vault national record with 4, 20 m.
July
1. Tsiamita won't be in Sydney
The
injury problem the world champion suffers last months obliged her to undergo
a surgical treatment. Tsiamita announced today her decision to go on with
the operation immediately and start training again later this year in order
to be ready for her obligations in 2001.
June
25. Good marks at Knosseia 2000
Christos
Polychroniou improved his season best today in Herakleion throwing 79,
59 m. and approaching once more the line of 80 m. Stefanos Konstas set
a discus throw personal best at 61, 06 m. and became the first thrower
who crossed 60 m. after 8 years, while Stella Tsikouna won the women's
competition with 64, 16 m. 2000 greek lists:men
- women
June
22. Angelos Pavlakakis comes back
Angelos
Pavlakakis returned to high level performances running 100 m. in 10" 20.
yesterday, in a meeting organized by Panhellenios G.S. in Athens. Pavlakakis
is the fourth greek spinter
who
met the olympic standard. Meanwhile, it was announced today that Noah
Ngeni (1.000 m.) and Daniel Komen (3.000 m.) will compete in Athens
Grand Prix on next Wednesday.
June
17. Stamatis Lenis impresses in Kallithea
Stamatis
Lenis jumped 16, 93 m. to miss the triple jump olympic standard due to
the air (2,4 m.) but also had a legal jump at 16, 81 m. in Bizaneia
2000 meeting held in Kallithea. Thaleia Iakovidou won the pole vault
yesterday with 3, 90 m.
June
11. Georgia
Tsiliggiri breaks pole vault record
Georgia Tsiliggiri
improved pole vault record for Greece to 4, 16 m. The old record was 4,
15 held by Thaleia Iakovidou last year.
June
3. Tsiolakoudi won NCAA title
Angeliki
Tsiolakoudi threw 60,24 m. to win the NCAA javelin title. Link
to NCAA official site
May
28. Tsamoglou broke hammer record once more
It
was Tsamoglou's turn to break the hammer record for Greece today, which
changed hand once more in Greek
Srping Champs. Tsamoglou sent the hammer at 62, 20 m. while during
the qualification round she had improved her personal best to 60,90 m.
Gatsioudis set the best mark in Portugal at Cup for Champions Clubs, where
he won with 87,12 m. In the same competition Kalliopi Ouzouni set a 18,37
m. at Shot Put, a mark just 0,16 far from the national record.
May
20. Triple record for Amalia Lamboura
Amalia
Lamboura broke hammer record for Greece three times, during a meeting organized
by Panhellenios G.S. in Athens. She threw 61, 03 m. at her second attempt,
to improve it to 61, 32 m. and 61, 90 m. with her fourth and last attemp.
May
16-17. Greek Universities Championships 2000.
The
Greek Universities Championships held in Athens and the better mark was
this by Amalia Lamboura. The discus thrower participated in hammer competition
and set a personal best at 59, 82 m.
May
11. Greek Schools Championships 2000
During
the Greek schools championships, held yesterday in Patra, Dimitra Emmanuel
broke the U18 pole vault record,
improving it to 3, 52 m. and later to 3, 60 m. Good marks also for Asimina
Bogea (3, 52 at pole vault), Margarita Margaroni (800 m.: 2'11"43), Maria
Sarri (triple jump, 12, 55 m.) and a 15-year old jumper, Dimitrios Stergioulis
who jumped 7,26 m. Meanwhile Dimitris Filindras jumped 7, 85 in Thessaloniki,
participating in the local University champs.
May
7. Angeliki Tsiolakoudi exceeds 60 m. in javelin
Angeliki
Tsiolakoudi threw 60, 26 m. in Twilight Invitational, held at Kidd Field
in El Paso, to break the NCAA record, on Saturday 06. She is the second
athlete who made the Sydney's olympic standard, after the world record
holder Mirella Tzelili, while a third one, Savva Lyka has met the low standard
May
3. Asimina Morfi gets hammer record back
Asimina
Morfi broke hammer throw national record for Greece with 60,64 m. during
Throws Festival, held in Tripolis, Greece today. Thus, Morfi impoved by
15 cm the record set Eudokia Tsamoglou on April 22. Nikolaos Gentekos won
the men's competition with 70, 95 m. and 16-year old Georgios Papadopoulos
the junior's event with a throw at 73, 58 m.
April
23. Gatsioudis throws 89, 48 m. in Pireaus
During
the second day of Greek Clubs Champs
Costas Gatsioudis - attempting only once - threw 89,48 m. to set the second
world mark of the year. Athina Papagianni broke women's 10.000 m. walk
national record for Greece.
April
22. Hammer Throw National Record for Eudokia Tsamoglou
Eudokia
Tsamoglou broke the women national record for Greece with a throw at 60,49
m.during the first day of Greek
Clubs Champs. Costas Kenteris participated in 100 m. and ran a wind
assisted 10" 29, while Mirela Tzelili won with 61,13 m. followed by Savva
Lyka who threw 57,61 m. Thanou won without any pressure with 11"68 and
Costas Koukodimos jumped 7,85 m.Excellent start for the young girls Georgia
Tsikouri and Stella Pilatou; both broke personal bests. Stavros Kouropakis
set a new national U18 mark of pole vault and Evaggelia Xynou broke national
junior's walk record.
April
21. Greek Clubs Championships to be held this weekend
Greek
Clubs Championships will take place this weekend in eight groups in Athens,
Thessaloniki, Larissa, Kavala, Patra and Chalkida. Among the athletes will
start the season in weekend are the Javelin world record holder Mirela
Manjani-Tzelili, Costas Gatsioudis, Georgios Theodoridis, Periklis Iakovakis,
Costas Koukodimos, Georgia Tsiliggiri and much more. Early
Results.
April
16. Good marks for Greek Throwers
Christos
Polychroniou starts the season with a throw at 79,56 m. in the Hammer Throw
Meeting held yesterday in Athens. Asimina Morfi won the women competition
with 59, 69 m. followed by 20-year old thrower Lia Derveni (58, 15 m.).
Meanwhile, two weeks after breaking her personal best, Angeliki Tsiolakodi
sent the javelin at 55, 30 to win Sierra
Providence / UTEP Invitational, held in Texas, where discus thrower
Stefanos Konstas improved his personal best to 59, 94 m.
March
31.Unlucky night for Alexandros Papadimitriou in Cape Town
Alexandros
Papadimitriou was for few minutes the new hammer throw national record
holder, as he won with 79, 95 m. in Engen
Grand Prix Final, held in Cape Town. But after the competition it was
announced that his performance is not recognized because the hammer was
longer than the legal. Despite the unlucky incident, Papadimitriou seems
ready for 80 m. and the competition with Christos Polychroniou will be
a motive for both athletes this year. Michael Johnson ran a hand-timed
43" 9 for 400 meters - the timing equipment failed - to complete his successful
tour of South Africa.
March
18. Greek Walk Championships 2000
Spiridon
Kastanis won the national title of 50.000 m. walk during the National Champs,
held today in Marathon, with 3: 56' 47". Second was Theodoros Stamatopoulos
in 3: 57' 44"; both achieved Olympic Standard. Christina Deskou broke her
own national record walking 20.000 m. in 1:31" 38.
February
27. Katerina Thanou won 60 m. gold medal
Katerina Thanou won the
60 m. final in 7" 05. Maebashi's world champion had a very slow start but
accelarated after first meters to win the race in front of Bulgarian Petya
Pedareva and Ukrainian Iryna Pukha. Thanou was also European Indoor Champion
in 1998.
February
26. Niki Xanthou
in the final. Katerina Thanou, Angelos Pavlakakis, Georgios Theodordis,
Christoforos Choidis qualified for 60 m. Semifinals.
Niki Xanthou placed
6th in the qualification round of the long jump (6, 57 m.) and qualified
for the final. Erica Johansson with a jump at 6, 80 m. broke the Swedish
National Record. Katerina Thanou ran a 7" 13. to secure easily her participation
in semifinals. Good races for Georgios Theodoridis (1st in 3rd heat in
6" 59.), Angelos Pavlakakis (1st in 4th heat in 6"62.) and Christofors
Choidis (4th in 6th heat in 6"72.); all qualified for 60 m. Semifinals.
Timo Aaltonen of Finland set a personal best at 20,57 m. to dominate Shot
Put qualification round, where Mika Halvari had three fault throws and
failed to qualify.
February
25. Costas Kenteris in 200 m. final
Costas Kenteris was second
in the third semifinal of 200 m. with 20" 94. and qualified for the final.
Belgian Stevens (20" 66.), British Christian Malcolm (20" 77.) and Cypriot
Anninos Markoulidis (20" 77.) were impressed in the semifinals. Bulgarian
Tzevontov was the faster (47" 12.) of the 1st round of 400 m. where Anastassios
Goussis qualified for the seminals with 47" 35. Periklis Iakovakis placed
3rd in second heat and left out of the next round. Costas Koukodimos was
9th in Long Jump qualification round with 7, 83 m. one cm less than the
last qualifier, Dimitrios Serelis 16th and Dimitrios Filindras 21st.
February
19-20. Greek Indoor National Championships 2000
The
absence of many top Greek athletes was the main feature of the 15th
Greek Indoor Championships. The win of Angelos Pavlakakis with 6"58,
the rapid improvement of the young 400 m. runner Anastassios Goussis who
won the event in 46" 73., the jump of Stamatis Lenis at 16, 58 m. and the
come back of the Olympic Champion Voula Patoulidou to indoor dash races
after 8 years are among the highlights of the first day of the Champs.
On the second day 19-year old jumper Dimitrios Serelis won with 8,08 m.
leaving behind Dimitrios Filindras (7,96 m.) and Costas Koukodimos (7,90
m.) and Goussis doubled his wins with a personal best at 21" 08. in 200
m. Two National Relay Records for Greece and Cypriot Records by Agni Charalambous
(High Jump: 1, 82 m.) and Constantinos Hatzimarkou (800 m.: 1' 50" 13.).
After the end of the champs the Greek team for European Indoor Champs was
announced.
February
12. Prodromos Korkizoglou exceeds 6.000 p. in heptathlon
Prodromos
Korkizoglou broke the heptathlon national record for Greece, with 6.032
p. during the national combined events championships. Second placer Cypriot
Georgios Andreou set also a national record for Cyprus with 5, 895 p. and
Euthymios Andreoglou was third with 5.771 points.
January 22. National
Records in Pireaus Indoor Meeting
Three National Records
were broken today, during second Pireaus
Indoor Meeting. Kalliopi Ouzouni broke the Shot Put National Record
for Greece with a throw at 19,03, a mark better than the greek outdoor
record. Also Yuriy Rovan (Pole Vault) broke twice the Slovenian record
with jumps at 5, 45 m. and 5, 56 m., while Cypriot Agni Charalambous (High
Jump) equalled her own record at 1, 81 m. Impressing run for 17-year-old
Aglaia Papachristou, who smashed the U18 national record for Greece, running
in 4' 31" 97. Meanwhile the injury problem of Voula Tsiamita was not proved
something serious and the world champion will start the season next week.
Related pages: [Greek
National Indoor Records][Greek National
Records in 2000][Greek all time indoor lists: men,
women][Greek
best performances in 2000][Statistics]