Tokyo 2025: The final of Emmanouil Karalis

In a twelvemonth that, arsenic helium himself has emphasized, helium could not person imagined adjacent successful his wildest dreams, Emmanouil Karalis is preparing to enactment the cherry connected top! And that is nary different than his archetypal medal astatine a World Athletics Championships!

At 13:49 Greek clip (live connected ERT2, with exclusive sum of the rod vault last connected ERT Sports), the 25-year-old rod vaulter volition participate the tract of Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium to combat for a spot connected the podium astatine the 20th World Championships. In the precise aforesaid stadium where, successful 2021, helium finished 4th astatine the Olympic Games, helium volition present pursuit his archetypal medal successful an outdoor World Championships. As helium had said earlier the team’s departure, helium volition effort to propulsion Mondo Duplantis arsenic overmuch arsenic possible.

Karalis is present the apical Greek rod vaulter and the fourth-best of each clip worldwide! The assurance helium has built—having cleared six meters eleven times this year—is undoubtedly giving him wings. Besides the podium, his extremity is besides a leap higher than 6.08m, a people that stands arsenic the nationalist record, which helium acceptable successful Volos during the Greek Championships.

In the final, the jock coached by Haris Karalis and Marcin Szczepański volition face, among others, the improvement Mondo Duplantis, who holds the satellite grounds astatine 6.29m. The Swede is surely the favourite for the golden medal, but successful bid to bent it astir his neck… helium indispensable archetypal triumph the large final!

Karalis is aiming for the seventh medal of his vocation truthful far. The 25-year-old has already won an Olympic bronze medal (Paris), a metallic (Nanjing) and a bronze (Glasgow) astatine World Indoor Championships, a golden (Apeldoorn) and a metallic (Istanbul) astatine European Indoors, and a metallic (Rome) astatine a European Outdoor Championship.