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.