Athletics EAA Under 20 European Championships 2023

[Makedonas 1,589]

Pretty disappointing for us to end with just 2 bronze. We had higher hopes for sure.

 

Kallimogianni bronze in the women's 3000 SC with a huge U20NR was a nice surprise, and in an event we don't typically do well in. Antonatos in the shot put winning bronze was also good, and he'll have another chance at this level in 2025 to win gold.

 

We also had good showings in the triple jump events. For the men, 2006-born Gkartsios was 5th and for the women, 2007-born Zaragka was 8th. In 2025, both should do very well considering most athletes here were born in 2004 and 2005.

 

The three events where I expected medals were the women's pole vault (Triantafyllou was 5th), men's high jump (Mita was a disappointing 11th), and men's hammer throw (Mantzouranis NM in final and Papanastasiou was 7th).