OR National pole treats the Spain In the semifinals of the World Athletics Championship in Singapore and wants to celebrate the qualification in the big final, as the National Pole of Women did yesterday (21.07.2025)!
Men’s national pole claims to World Athletics Championship What she lacks: a gold medal in a big event (only the Women’s National Sports Has done).
For the first time in the history of the Greek pole, both national teams – men and women – are at the same time in the final four of the world. The female group already secured the medal and will go for gold, against Hungary.
In case his national pole of men Theodore Vlachou He does it, the Greek pole will have to boast of a rare achievement, that is, to have men and women in the final of the same event, something that has previously been achieved only by three countries (Italy in 2003, Hungary in 2005 and Spain in 2019).
Greece and Spain have previously confronted eight times in the World Championships, with National counting three wins and five defeats, but all their meetings were strangely, either in the group stage or in a ranking match, never in a significant knockout like today. As mentioned above, The last game between the two teams was in April, in the final of the World Cup, where “Rocha” prevailed 16-14.
Greece is called upon to “break” the … curse of the lost semifinals. In six appearances in the world of a world championship, the blue whites has managed to celebrate only one qualification in 2023 in Fukukokawhen Serbia easily prevailed 13-7, before it was dramatically defeated by Hungary in the final (14-13 in penalties).
The victory over the “Plavi”, along with the Magyar at the Tokyo Olympics, is the only one of the Men’s National Pole in the semifinals of big events (1/2 in the Olympics, 1/6 in World Championships and 0/2 in European).
Ethniki finds a team that, based on material and performance, looks like the favorite of the tournament. From 2018 onwards, Spain has been dominating the international spotlight in Polo, with a unique “black” spot, that it failed to get a Olympic medal, neither in Tokyo (4th), nor in Paris (6th).
Spain counts in the last four world championships a gold (in 2022 in Budapest), one silver and two bronze, in the last four European one gold (last year in Zagreb), two silver and one bronze, and has won the last two World Cup title. Overall, in the history of the world championships, the Iberians have participated 20 times (absent from the 2015 event) and have ten medals (3-4-3) in their collection, less only than Hungary.
The other pair of semifinals brings face to face The “golden” Olympic, Serbia and the champion of the world of 2023 Hungaryin a conflict of “giants” of the world pole.