09/02/2019   Pireaus (GRE) - Greek Indoor Championships, victories of Panagiota Tsinopoulou and Alexandros Papamichail






Saturday at the  indoor palace  “Peace  & Friendship” in  Pireaus took place the  Greek   Indoor Championship; race walking events were as usual  5000m race walk men and the  3000m race walk women.   

 

The  spectators  had  the  opportunity  to  see  2  excellent  events  with  the  athletes  try to  do  their  best although   they  are  in the  middle   of the  their  preparation  for  the  great  summer competitions. 

 

3.000m indoor walk women

 

The  winner  was  for  the fifth consecutive time,   Panagiota  Tsinopoulou  (GRE) with the mark of 12:51.57.

Second place to Kiriaki Filtitsakou (GRE) in 13:24.28 who broke the very  old  national  record in  30000m. indoor walk U20 obtained on Feb. 12, 1992  by  Christina  Deskou.

Third place to  the  Olympic  youth  bronze medalist  Olga  Fiaska  (GRE) in 13:29.63 although  she  fallen  down during  the  competition. This performance is the new personal best of the young Greek  (previous of 13:54.72 obtained always in Piraeus, GRE on Feb. 10, 2018)

 

 

5.000m indoor walk men

 

The winner was for  the sixth  consecutive  time, Alexandros  Papamichail (GRE) with the mark of 19:31.02.

Second place to Giorgos  Tzatzimakis  (GRE) in 20:00.53 in  his  first race in U20

Third place to Yiannis  Vaitsis (GRE) in 20:36.63.

 

Alexandros  Papamichail  is preparing   for  the 50km  in  Doha and in Alytus he will compete in 20km as a test.

Tsinopoulou, Filtitsakou,  Fiaska,  Papamichail and Tzatzimakis this year they are looking  for  participate  in  Iaaf   Challenges and moreover at the  Balkan  race walk championship which will take place in Alexandroupoli (GRE) on July 27, 2019.

 

 

 

(Cooperation  by Zoe Gkini - GRE)

 

 

Full results in the section Results or directly download from this link: click here