The "Flying" Emmanuel Karalis with an amazing jump won the silver at the World Championships in Tokyo, exceeding 6 meters! While Miltos Tentoglou secured - for the fourth time in a row - his participation in the final of the World Championship, which is being held in Tokyo with just one jump!
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The Greek Olympic champion, in the pole vault, Emmanuel Karalis exceeded 6m. and comfortably won the silver medal.
"Manolo" went to Tokyo being one of the favorites to be on the podium and confirmed it, he exceeded 6m. and won the silver medal at the World Athletics Championships.
The top Greek athlete in the history of pole vault fought a great battle with Duplantis and touched the Panhellenic record (6.08 m).
Emmanuel Karalis left 5.55m. and entered the final from 5.75m. which he passed with characteristic ease. Then he left 5.85m. to go to 5.90m. The bar turned out to be low for him and he passed it with the first one.
At 5.95m. "Manolo" looked nervous. His first two jumps were mediocre and as a result he dropped the bar. However, with the third he surpassed him and continued his struggle.
Seven athletes continued in the six meters. In addition to Karalis, Duplantis, Marshall, Kendricks, Collet, Gutormsen and Flune tried to exceed the bar at this height. There Manolo exceeded the bar with the first and only he and Duplantis continued.
Both left 6.05, the great Swede passed 6.10m with the first. and then the 6.15m. Manolo had two excellent jumps in these heights, but for details he failed to pass the bar and won the silver medal.
Karalis won the seventh medal of his career so far and the first in World Outdoor Athletics.
The 25-year-old jumper has won an Olympic bronze medal (Paris), a silver (Nanjing) and a bronze (Glasgow) medal at the World Indoor Championships, a gold (Apeldoorn) and a silver (Istanbul) at the European Indoor Championships and a silver (Rome) at the European Open Championships.
A little earlier, two-time Olympic champion in the long jump Miltos Tentoglou needed a single attempt at 8.17m. to reach the qualification limit (8.15m) and renew his appointment for Wednesday's final (17/9), where he will seek to defend the title he won two years ago in Budapest
