| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 14 May 1974 (age 50) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Areti Abatzi (born 14 May 1974) is a Greek discus thrower.
She finished sixth at the 2002 European Championships and ninth at the 2006 World Cup. She also competed at the 1997 World Championships without reaching the finals.
Her personal best throw is 62.95 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Patras. This places her fourth on the Greek all-time performers list, behind Ekaterini Voggoli, Anastasia Kelesidou and Styliani Tsikouna. [1]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | 24th (q) | |
| 2001 | Mediterranean Games | Rades, Tunisia | 1st | 61.42 m |
| 2002 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 6th | 61.49 m |
| 2005 | Mediterranean Games | Almeria, Spain | 5th | 53.39 |
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα and ἄθλος. Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not by the position achieved. The decathlon is contested mainly by male athletes, while female athletes typically compete in the heptathlon.
Dame Valerie Kasanita Adams is a retired New Zealand shot putter. She is a four-time World champion, four-time World Indoor champion, two-time Olympic, three-time Commonwealth Games champion and twice IAAF Continental Cup winner. She has a personal best throw of 21.24 metres (69.7 ft) outdoors and 20.98 metres (68.8 ft) indoors. These marks are Oceanian, Commonwealth and New Zealand national records. She also holds the Oceanian junior record (18.93 m) and the Oceanian youth record (17.54 m), as well as the World Championships record, World Indoor Championships record and Commonwealth Games record.
Mirela Maniani is a Greek retired track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw.
Ilse Kristiina ('Tiina') Lillak is a Finnish former javelin thrower. She is the 1983 world champion and 1984 Olympic silver medalist. She also twice broke the world record, with throws of 72.40 metres in 1982 and 74.76 metres in 1983. The latter distance ranks third on the all-time list with the old javelin model.
Maria Geertruida "Ria" Stalman is a Dutch retired discus thrower and shot putter.
Venissa Anne Head is a former international track and field athlete from Wales.
Stiliani ("Stella") Papadopoulou is a hammer thrower from Greece. She was born in Thessaloniki. Her personal best throw is 72.10 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Nikiti. This is the Greek record.
Kalliopi Ouzouni is a retired female shot putter from Greece. Her personal best throw is 18.90 metres, achieved in May 2004 in Kalamata. This places her second on the Greek all-time list, behind Irini Terzoglou. She holds the indoor national record with 19.03 m, achieved in January 2000 in Piraeus.
Abatzi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Anita Włodarczyk is a Polish hammer thrower. She is the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Olympic champion, and the first woman in history to throw the hammer over 80 m; she currently holds the women's world record of 82.98 m. She is considered the greatest hammer thrower of all time.
Sandra Elkasević is a Croatian discus thrower. She is a two-time Olympic and world champion and a record seven-time European champion which makes her the most decorated female discus thrower in history. She is also a seven-time Diamond League winner, prevailing in 46 circuit's meetings.
Kara Estelle Winger is an American track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She is the American record holder in the javelin throw with a distance of 68.11 m.
Hania Aidi is a Paralympian athlete from Tunisia competing mainly in category F54 javelin throw events. Aidi has competed at four consecutive Summer Paralympics, winning silver medals at three of the Games. She is also a three time World Championships winner medalist and has held the F54 javelin world record on numerous occasions throughout her career.
Areti Athanasopoulou is a Greek taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's featherweight category. She claimed a gold medal in the 59-kg class at the 2003 World Taekwondo Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and represented her nation Greece in two editions of the Olympic Games. Throughout her sporting career, Athanasopoulou trained as a member of taekwondo squad for AS Vyronas Athinaikos in her native Athens, under head coach and master Apostolos Iakovakis.
Christin Hussong is a German track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She has won gold at the 2011 World Youth Championships, 2015 European U23 Championships and at the 2018 European Championships. Hussong holds the European Championships record with her personal best throw of 69.19 m.
Andriana Asprogeraka is a Greek taekwondo practitioner.
Stamatia Scarvelis is an American-born Greek athlete. She competed in the semi-final of the hammer throw event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, taking the 17th place.
Androniki Lada is a Cypriot discus thrower who has won seven consecutive national championships. Lada finished second in the discus event at the 2017 Games of the Small States of Europe, first in the discus event at the 2022 Balkan Athletics Championships and third at the 2022 Championships of the Small States of Europe. She came eighth at the discus event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Adriana Vilagoš is a Serbian athlete who specializes in the javelin throw. At the age of 18, she won silver medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, becoming the youngest ever European medallist in a throwing event. One year prior, Vilagoš was for the first time the World Under-20 Champion and earned silver medal at the European U20 Championships successfully defending her World U20 title in 2022 and breaking championship and European U20 records in the process.
Emma Sralla is a Swedish-American track and field athlete who won the discus at the 2022 World Athletics Junior Championships.
 | This biographical article relating to Greek athletics is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
