OR National pole He wants to imitate that of women and reach his final World Athletics Championship. The Greek pole at its best, in the effort to reach the… top of the world.
The men’s national pole will claim its entry into the Grand Final to come closer to its first gold medal in a big event. Thodoris Vlachos’ team faces in the first semifinal of the World Athletics Championships Spain (22.07.2025, 12:35, Newsit.gr, ERT1), which had won the silver medal last year at the Doha World Championship.
The last time the two teams met in a big event was this year, on April 13 in Podgorica, in the World Cup final, where Spain won 16-14. And of course our national team wants to take the rematch.
Recall that the blue -white is partially renewed at the Singapore World Championships, as there are four citizens from the 13th of the Paris Olympic Games: Yiannis Fountoulis, Angelos Vlachopoulos, Manos Zerdas
The Men’s National participated in the maiden world championship in 1973, missing from that of 1975 and has since recorded a series of appearances for 30 years. Her first podium in the event was to win the bronze medal in 2005 in Montreal, thanks to the “mythical” goal of KOE -Vice President George Afroudakis, in the finale of the “small” final with Croatia.
That was the first medal of Greece in Greece, but also the first world medal in any team sport (followed by his silver basketball, a year later in Saitama). After years, we had 3rd place in Kazan World in 2015.
For the Men’s National Pole this is its 7th presence in the semifinals, in the past six it has a silver and three bronze medals. Its highlight in the event came in 2023 in Fukukoka, where the men’s national pole was defeated by Hungary 13-14 in the penalty shoot-out (etc. 10-10) and remained in second place.
Men’s appearances in four
2003 Barcelona 4th
2005 Montreal 3rd
2015 Kazan 3rd
2017 Budapest 4th
2019 Guangzu 3rd place
2022 Budapest 3rd
2023 Fukukoka 2nd