KARALIS Emmanouil

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2019	Doha, QAT	Qual. (5.60)
2017	London, GBR	Qual. (5.45)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Pole Vault
2019	1 x 4th, 1 x 13th
2017	1 x 10th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
4	2019	Pole Vault	Stockholm, SWE	5.36
10	2017	Pole Vault	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	5.37
13	2019	Pole Vault	Zurich, SUI	5.43

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
6	2019	Pole Vault	World Challenge	Ostrava, CZE	5.51

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2018	Birmingham, GBR	5th (5.80)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Manolo [first given to him by a coach, which is why he decided to keep it]. (Instagram profile, 17 Feb 2021; redbull.com, 01 Jan 2021)

Playing the guitar, playing video games. (redbull.com, 01 Jan 2021)

Athlete

Marketing - The American College of Greece, Athens, GRE

English, Greek

GS Apollon Pyrgou [Greece]

Panagiotis Symeonidis

In 2020 he signed for Greek football club Paniliakos, which competed in the 2019/20 Gamma Ethniki [fourth tier]. (Instagram profile, 23 Aug 2020; sputniknews.gr, 23 Aug 2020; Paniliakos FC Instagram profile, 23 Aug 2020)

He was forced to end his 2021 indoor season early due to a bruised ankle. (Instagram profile, 12 Feb 2021, 13 Feb 2021)

A leg injury meant he did not compete between March 2018 and early 2019. (hellenicnews.com, 05 Apr 2019; worldathletics.org, 12 Feb 2021)

"My dad used to be a decathlete and he also wanted me to become a decathlete as well. He started me with the pole vault because it's one of the most technical events in the decathlon. I just loved the feeling of flying. I was just doing the small jumps at first but I love the feeling of flying, getting off the ground and bending the pole. I just stuck with it; it was love at first sight. I was a prodigy. My coaches told me that I was good at pole vaulting for my age so I told my dad, 'I'm sticking with pole vault, I'm not becoming a decathlete', but I still really want to try a decathlon. It's one of my plans." (european-athletics.com, 23 Apr 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 12 Feb 2021)

Setting an U18 pole vault world record of 5.54m in 2016, winning gold at the 2016 European Youth Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia, and winning bronze at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Cali, Colombia. (european-athletics.com, 23 Apr 2020; digitaljournal.com, 24 Sep 2017; LinkedIn profile, 01 Dec 2020)

Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Dec 2020)

"I am confident but I am always so humble. Whenever I pole vault, I just see the fun part - I don't think of numbers and breaking records. My happiness brings me the records. I don't like setting goals or numbers. I'm the kind of athlete who if he doesn't get nervous and doesn't think of specific numbers, I perform better if I'm relaxed." (european-athletics.com, 23 Apr 2020)

In 2016 he received the Piotr Nurowski Prize for Best European Young Athlete of the Year from the European Olympic Committees. (eurolympic.org, 28 Oct 2016)