Greece’s Pole Vaulter Emmanouil Karalis Wins Silver at World Indoor Championships

Emmanouil Karalis added 1 much medal successful his achievements, winning the metallic successful the Indoor rod vault title successful Poland connected Saturday jumping 6.05 meters. Photo credit: AMNA

Greece’s aureate lad Emmanouil Karalis walked connected the podium again aft a 6.05 metre leap successful the World Indoor rod vault championships successful Kujawy Pomorze, Poland, connected Saturday.

This clip the satellite champion, who jumped a spectacular 6.17 earlier this year, came second, losing to different satellite champion, Mondo Duplantis who cleared 6.25 meters.

Despite his efforts to adjacent lucifer his erstwhile 6.17 achievement, Greece’s 2nd top rod vaulter of each clip did not negociate to scope it. Karalis settled for the metallic medal.

“I privation to constitute my ain past and execute the satellite record,” helium said connected camera aft the competition.

Twelve athletes competed successful the World Indoor rod vault Championship:

1. Armand DUPLANTIS (SWE), 6.25 CR
2. Emmanouil KARALIS (GRE), 6.05
3. Kurtis MARSCHALL (AUS), 6.00 =PB
4. Sondre GUTTORMSEN (NOR), 5.95
5. Zachery BRADFORD (USA), 5.95
6. Baptiste THIERY (FRA), 5.85
7. Menno VLOON (NED), 5.85 SB
8. Thibaut COLLET (FRA), 5.85 =SB
9. Ernest John OBIENA (PHI), 5.70
9. Christopher NILSEN (USA), 5.70
11. Simen GUTTORMSEN (NOR), 5.70
12. David HOLÝ (CZE), 5.50

Karalis jumped 6.17 connected March 1st

The Greek rod vault Olympian and European indoor champion became the 2nd highest rod vaulter successful past acknowledgment to his unthinkable leap astatine the Greek Indoor Championships successful Paiania, connected the outskirts of Athens, connected March 1st.

Karalis, Greece’s “Flying Manolo” arsenic galore fans telephone him, cleared an unthinkable 6.17-meter jump, having already cleared a satellite pb of 6.07-meters connected his archetypal attempt. This accomplishment erstwhile again broke the Greek indoor record for the large athlete.

The 6.17 meters that Karalis cleared that time was a tallness that had lone ever been conquered by Sweden’s Armand Duplantis, a long-time person and rival of Karalis.

In fact, that time Manolo tried to leap a spectacular 6.31 meters, to outstrip Duplantis of his 6.30 satellite grounds from the 2025 World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo, wherever Karalis won silver. The Greek rod vaulter didn’t negociate this time, but helium seems anxious to execute it immoderate clip later.

The emergence to the apical of a large athlete

Born connected October 20, 1999, Emmanouil Karalis is the lad of a Greek begetter from Pyrgos, and a Ugandan mother. He is simply a subordinate of the athletics section of Olympiacos FCP. Every clip helium competes, helium proves that the aboriginal belongs to him successful high-level races and large diversion events.

His aboriginal is already successful motion, having begun successful 2025 with six consecutive Panhellenic records and carried guardant to the conquest of the European summit. Yet, the bronze medal helium won successful the 2024 Summer Olympics is his astir glorious achievement. The 2028 Summer Olympics volition apt beryllium his caller pinnacle.