Emmanouil Karalis Soars to Silver with 6M Jump at World Championships

Emmanouil Karalis successful 1 of his palmy attempts successful Japan. Credit: Hellenic Olympic Committee

Greek rod vaulter Emmanouil Karalis connected Monday won the metallic medal successful the World Athletics Championships, taking spot successful Japan, falling down World grounds holder Armand Duplantis.

Karalis cleared 6m and came breathtakingly adjacent to wide 6.15. He was implicit the bar, lone to person it tremble and autumn with the slightest of touches. Duplantis approached the aforesaid formidable tallness and, arsenic helium has done truthful galore times before, made it look effortless and claimed the golden medal.

The Greek champion had failed astatine 6.10, and aboriginal besides failed astatine 6.20.

Karalis’ meteoric emergence successful the rod vault

Karalis, the lad of a Greek begetter from Pyrgos, and a Ugandan mother, proved erstwhile again that the aboriginal belongs to him successful high-level races and successful large diversion events. A aboriginal that is already successful afloat swing, since 2025 began with six consecutive Panhellenic records and continued with the conquest of the European summit.

In March 2025, helium won the metallic medal successful the World Athletics Indoor Championships that took spot successful Nanjing, China.

Karalis broke a caller Greek nationalist grounds by clearing 6.05 meters, shattering his ain nationalist grounds of 6.02 meters. Duplantis won the golden by clearing 6.10 meters.

Earlier successful March, helium won the archetypal gold medal for Greece astatine the European Indoor Championships successful Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

He made nary concealed of his ambition for adjacent greater achievements: “I strive for continuous improvement. Since I consistently wide 6 meters successful each competition, my extremity is to surpass 6.10m—after that, thing is possible. I judge successful myself, I judge I tin execute bonzer things, and I volition enactment relentlessly to marque it happen.”

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