The events are:
High Jump
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Pole Vault
100m Dash
100m Hurdles
Why only Women! After Greek Track & Field evolution with the conquest of gold metal by Patoulidou in the Olympic Games of Barcelona in 1992, a big generation of athletes, and particularly women athletes, popped up in Greece. The Greek women athletes gave a lot of discriminations, metals, fantastic results and succ
esses in our country in Olympic Games, World and European Championships, in Mediterranean and Balkan Games but also in International Meetings. We easily mention Niki Bakogianni, Katerina Thanou, Fani Chalki, Pigi Devetzi, Mirella Manjani, Anastasia Kelesidou, Athanasia Tzoumeleka, Niki Xanthou, Voula Tsiamita, Georgia Kokloni, Maria Karastamati etc'. Having the need to honour the Greek Woman – Athlete, we organise Filothei Women Gala since 2000, giving the opportunity in the sports fans to admire closely the Protagonists of World Track & Field. In the Filothei Women Gala have participated most of mentioned before Greek champions and a lot of foreigner Champions, as well-known and popular in the Greek public:
Tatyana Lebedeva (Russia) - Olympic champion, World Champion and holder of World record of closed track in the Triple Jump. Tereza Marinova (Bulgaria) - Olympic champion, World Champion in the Triple Jump. Inga Babakova (Ukraine) - Olympic champion, World Champion in the High Jump. Venelina Veneva (Bulgaria) - Olympic champion, World Champion in the High Jump.
