Ekaterini Stefanidi
Stefanidi at the 2016 Olympics
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| Personal information | |
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| Born |
4 February 1990 Cholargos, Greece |
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) |
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Pole vault |
| Coached by | Mitchell Krier |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 4.90 m (i) 4.86 m |
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Medal record
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Katerina Stefanidi (Κατερίνα Στεφανίδη; born 4 February 1990) is a Greek pole vaulter. She competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and won a gold medal in 2016 with a jump of 4.85 meters. She also won the 2005 World Youth Championships and the 2016 European championships.
Stefanidi was born to athletes Georgios Stefanidis and Zoi Vareli, who competed internationally in the triple jump and sprint, respectively. Her younger sister Georgia and husband Mitchell Krier are former pole vaulters.
Stefanidi attended the 1st High School of Pallini and won the National High School Championships. She broke the National High School record and the Championship record winning gold at the 2006 Gymnasiade. Growing up she broke all of the World age-group records for the ages of 11–14 and right after she turned 15, she broke the World Youth (under-18) record with a jump of 4.37 m. Her first international experience came at the age of 15, when she represented Greece at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Marrakesh, placing first with 4.30 m. At the 2007 World Youths, held in Ostrava, she was second with 4.25 m. In 2008 she won the bronze medal with 4.25 m at the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The same year she gained an athletic scholarship at Stanford University and began competing for the Stanford Cardinal. She received her master's degree in cognitive psychology with Dr. Gene A. Brewer at Arizona State University while training under the guidance of 2000 Olympic Champion Nick Hysong.
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