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GOLD for Elina, so awesome! We won 4 gold medals here now, the first 2 on the same day (women's 35km and men's long jump), and then the second 3 on the same day (women's 20km and women's javelin). 20 years ago, Mirela Manjani won gold in the women's javelin in Munich 2002. Now, 20 years later once again in Munich, Elina Tzengko wins gold in the women's javelin. Both girls are of Albanian origins as well. Really we've only had three notable female athletes with Albanian origins, and all are javelin throwers . Of course Elina is the only one who was born in Greece, the other two were migrants. Manjani won two Olympic medals so hopefully Tzengko can also do the same. Her progress reminds me of Tentoglou's, so hopefully she can become as dominant as him over the next few years.

Congrats Greece! Love that the young generation take gold and silver and the grandma the bronze. I’m pleased with the results in the women’s javelin

European Championships + Aquatics European Championships medal table after Day 10 1 34 36 35 2 28 25 19 3 25 18 17 4 14 22 27 5 13 11 6 6 13 7 17 7 11 3 4 8 10 11 6 9 6 5 2 10 6 3 6 11 5 0 2 12 4 12 14 13 4 11 8 14 4 9 5 15 3 4 6 16 3 4 1 17 3 3 4 18 3 1 2 19 3 0 5 20 2 2 4 21 2 2 3 22 2 2 0 23 1 3 4 24 1 3 2 25 1 2 1 26 1 2 0 27 1 1 3 28 1 0 1 29 1 0 0 29 1 0 0 31 0 1 3 32 0 0 1 32 0 0 1 32 0 0 1 Olympic events 1 21 19 16 2 20 20 21 3 15 11 12 4 12 7 12 5 10 16 18 6 8 1 3 7 7 9 3 8 6 4 4 9 4 10 8 10 4 9 4 11 4 2 4 12 3 4 1 13 3 1 1 14 3 0 2 15 2 2 5 16 2 2 0 17 1 2 4 18 1 2 3 19 1 2 2 20 1 2 1 20 1 2 1 22 1 2 0 22 1 2 0 24 1 1 4 25 1 1 3 26 1 0 4 27 1 0 1 28 1 0 0 28 1 0 0 30 0 3 2 31 0 1 1 32 0 0 1 32 0 0 1

In Greek "ai" together make the "e" sound. So in Greek we spell it Aikaterini but pronounce it Ekaterini. However, everyone with that name uses Katerina informally. It's one of the most common female names and you'll never hear someone being called "Ekaterini" except in a formal/legal setting. For example at the last Olympics we had "Ekaterini Stefanidi" in pole vault and "Aikaterini Divari" in sailing Stefanidi always went by "Ekaterini" and only recently I've seen her name listed as "Aikaterini." It seems each sport is different. We've had a bunch of rowers all always have their names listed as "Aikaterini" (Nikolaidou, Gkogkou, Zerva etc). Another name where we see this is Despina/Despoina. On our Fed Cup team one year we had Despina Papamichail and Despoina Vogasari. Same name but "oi" together makes the "i" sound. So Despina is the correct pronunciation but we spell it Despoina in Greek. And don't get me started with Ioannis vs Giannis or Georgios vs Giorgos

Elina Tzengko 65.81 PB in round two! Could be good enough for gold @Makedonas

Kambundji All the Swiss users on Totallympics must be overjoyed

If you want to feel a bit old, think that when Greece last won gold in women's javelin at a european championships, it was in 2002 in the same stadium and Jengo was one month unborn back then. And if you want to feel a bit older, think that when Spotakova made her olympic debut in 2004, Vilagos was seven months old. Tzengo was impressive, she started with a relatively good first throw which took all the pressure off and helped her throw a personal best in her next throw. This was a great day for us with two gold medals. I know our other two golds in these championships on the same day as well, as @Makedonas said, but I think those were way more expected than the one our athletes won today. Vilagos was impressive too. Remember she had two foul throws in qualifying before having a third one just good enough to put her in the final. Today she didn't start well, but gradually climbed up to third place and then despite Spotakova bumped her out of the podium spots and Vilagos had to throw immediately afterwards, she managed to improve and won silver. As for Spotakova, just appreciation and respect for her effort and medal at 41 years old, a true legend in this sport not just in javelin. To conclude all three medalists today have a from me.

Haha, me too. Maybe I should follow Femke too

here I am! an Instagram follower of Jutta, I mean...

For sports fans, definitely. For instagram followers I'm not sure.

I thought it was Asereje

no, she already started saying that she might make up her mind after Thursday night's triumph... at least, this is according to our usually well informed broadcasters...

and our commentator now with his typical dry humor: "and look, javelin throwers get világoš from Vilagos"...ehm..haha..

just a fun fact, in CZE/SVK languages Világoš means get spanked, get a debacle or get scolded

I've seen at least four different versions of Stefanidi's first name - Ekaterini, Katerina, Aikaterini and one I forgot already

p.s. the correct traslitteration in western letters of the name of the Greek race walker is "Drisbioti"...

The team event will be a joke if they won't allow them to do both. Everyone would choose 10k over the team event if they have to.

They sure have customized medals at these Champs (Sułek & Ennaoui are hotel roommates).

Gold for Mujinga and bronze for @Wumo @Agger

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow I think that the key lesson of the day is that everybody in the discus final was so ANGRY, cursing, pissed off, stressed. Gudžius was driving himself insane after every throw, Čeh was very unhappy, the Swedes were not too happy either, whilst Alekna and Okoye were the most chill throwers of the night and reached their biggest career achievements. I am very happy and very glad, this young man is hopefully going to have many good competitive years in front of him. I imagine discus throw finals are going to be nail biting every single time between him, Čeh and another youngster - Sosna. I'm feeling overwhelmed, it's nice that Čeh didn't win everything and that we were able to bring one home!!!

WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!!?!? FIRST IT WAS WILMA MURTO DOING HISTORICAL STUFF & NOW RAITANEN WINS GOLD IN 3000M STEEPLECHASE?!?!?!? LET'S GO!!!!!!

Gega She will for sure have a statue in Tirana one day

Gega!

Commentator: "People says Duplantis was born with a pole" ... almost choked myself

6.06 for Duplantis, championship record... let's see if he goes for 6.22 now...

Now or probably never. Go

Нема, или се родиш или не за овако нешто

Bol just too strong... but amazing relay...I didn't expect it to be so close... and Belgium...

GBR dominated the team final, but Italy pulled out a miracle and earned the most unexpected silver medal of them all (especially considering that we're missing so many of our top gymnasts here in Munich)...

Spotakova and Vilagos improve in the last throw! 60.68 for grandma, 62.01 for the teenager Szilagyi drops from silver to 4th bc of these two throws.

Adriana Vilagos 60.32 in round five and pushes Spotakova off the podium by 1 cm.

Yes, the two of them have already had a big rivalry for a few years now at the U18 and U20 categories

"Rocket" Viki in SF

Adriana Vilagos 59.64 and up to 4th place. Well, she and Tzengko could dominate the javelin in years to come...

Keely H. wins 800! Anna Wielgosz takes a shock bronze!

You can’t trust Commentators to be right, they don’t know the rules either. World Athletics are a lot better at issuing explanations now (except in walking)

Storica medaglia dei ragazzi della ginnastica, con questi risultati si può anche sognare il pass olimpico...

6th place for Hungary, I can't remember the last time our men's team had such a high placement at a "normal" ECh.

This 25k race is the biggest clusterfuck I have ever seen and so is the broadcast. No one has any idea what's going on.

19 yo Elina Tzengko was one of just two javelin throwers to make the qualifying standard for the final, and she has the leading throw in 2022 from all competitors here. Her results are not very consistent but I really hope she can get a medal here. Frantzeskakis finishing 6th in the men's hammer with a new PB was very good. He keeps improving year after year and he is still only 22 yo. I'm sure he will be in big finals for many years, he was also 9th in Eugene last month. Karalis not making the men's pole vault final was disappointing but not surprising. He really had a terrible year and my expectations were high again for him after he finished 4th in Tokyo. I'm glad Gusin made the high jump final after she just missed out in Eugene. Not expecting a medal of course. Karydi is really horrible this year, her SB is the lowest since 2018 yet somehow she finished 9th here. It shows how weak the women's triple jump is. This was also the first year she competed in the World Championships and European Championships at the senior level. Hopefully next year she can get back on track. Gnafaki finishing the 400 hurdles semifinals with another PB. Really good for her after her PB from 2016 stood until 2020 (she made it 58.17), then in 2021 she got to 57.00, now in 2022 down to 56.14. If she can continue this progress for just one of the next two years, she'll make it to Paris via ranking for sure. Papadopoulou 12th in 20km walk with a SB, can't complain. Anastasiou making semis in 200m close to her PB was good, it's too bad she ran slower in SF but the conditions were unfavourable. Men's 4x100 were close to the final, finishing 10th. We have a lot of good young male sprinters so hopefully next time we do better. Very disappointing 13th in the women's 4x100. Originally I thought we could make the final, then with Michailidou replacing Emmanouilidou it seemed unlikely but I still thought we would do better. 14th place for our women's 4x400. It was expected. If we had Vasiliou instead of Politi, I think we would've finished 12th or so. Our women's relay teams can never show their full potential, always at least one of them is injured and we don't have good replacements.

Ntrismpioti wins gold, Zdzieblo silver and Feige was running all the way to the finish for bronze...

Feigen...

Feige is in insult to the race walking discipline...please, stop her!!! p.s. it looks that Dr.Fuentes is back in charge...

By this hilarious standards I believe that 60% of athletes will qualify by ranking rather than by standard.

The entry standards are absurd especially in the sprint races. What is WA thinking? They want to get rid of all the minnows from World Championships? Only the rich & famous can compete?

Not really, before we arrived I named five teams as top-5 with Jumbo as winner, UAE is the only top-5 team I didn't mention It was cool to be standing right behind the finish and on the way to the hotseats, so many riders came close by. The party was real when Van Baarle and especially Gesink passed, I can hardly think of a rider who is both more popular, more down to earth and more of a fighter than Gesink has always been

on fire Mäkelä NR in Triple Jump 14.64

I'm somewhat disappointed with the level of gymnastics here. Petrounias on rings and Davtyan on vault are the only ones that could challenge China or Japan in their best moments. There are some good routines here and there, but I really expected much, much more. The women's championships were even worse. A gold medal in the all-around with a sub 55 score? Really? Sub 14 for vault gold? Yikes.

Gold for Romania in Women's Hammer Throw Damn, what happened with Romanian athletes this month? We won a lot of medals in athletics, swimming, rowing, artistic gymnastics, Halep won another tournament. A lot of medals and not any medals, but most of them are golds

Could be some similarities yes, for example your nickname perfectly translates to Macedonian in Lithuanian, wouldn't even need to change a single letter. Your question caused me to go on a google rampage and I found some info. Arijus Pavlidi was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania, he has now moved to train in Thailand. His grandpa was Greek and moved to live in Lithuania.