{"id":4661,"date":"2025-03-10T00:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/gold-for-pole-vault-champion-karalis-at-the-european-indoors\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T00:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:27:49","slug":"gold-for-pole-vault-champion-karalis-at-the-european-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/gold-for-pole-vault-champion-karalis-at-the-european-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold for pole vault champion Karalis at the European Indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1263699\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4606970-320x200.jpg?v=1741552226\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4606970.jpg?v=1741552226\" alt=\"Gold for pole vault champion Karalis at the European Indoors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4606970.jpg?v=1741552226\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>[Intime]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Emmanouil Karalis became on Sunday the first Greek to win a gold medal in pole vault at the European Indoor Track &amp; Field Championships, finishing joint first at Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands, in a rare case of two gold medals given for the same event.<\/p>\n<p>Karalis, who recently broke another national record clearing 6.02 meters, could do no better than 5.90m. in the final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>However this sufficed for the Greek pole-vaulter (who had already broken the national record six times within 2025) to win gold, as he had exactly the same attempts as home favorite Menno Vloon.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers agreed to grant one gold medal each to Karalis and Vloon, who were both proclaimed winners.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking afterwards, Karalis said he was happy that after performing badly he still earned gold. He even claimed his \u201cpoor showing\u201d was due to the evil eye\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/sports\/1263699\/gold-for-pole-vault-champion-karalis-at-the-european-indoors\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intime] Emmanouil Karalis became on Sunday the first Greek to win a gold medal in pole vault at the European Indoor Track &amp; Field Championships, finishing joint first at Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands, in a rare case of two gold medals given for the same event. Karalis, who recently broke another national record clearing 6.02 &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Gold for pole vault champion Karalis at the European Indoors\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/gold-for-pole-vault-champion-karalis-at-the-european-indoors\/#more-4661\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gold for pole vault champion Karalis at the European Indoors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4606970.jpg?v=1741552226","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}