Katerina 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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 Greece
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Pole vault |
| Coached by | Mitchell Krier |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 4.91m (NR) |
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Medal record
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Katerina Stefanidi (Κατερίνα Στεφανίδη; born 4 February 1990) is a Greek pole vaulter. She won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games with a jump of 4.85 meters. She is the current World Outdoor (2017), European Outdoor (2016) and Indoor (2017) champion and a World Indoor Championships medalist. Stefanidi has won a total of seven medals in all major international athletics championships. She has also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Stefanidi was born to athletes Georgios Stefanidis and Zoi Vareli, who competed internationally in the triple jump and sprints, respectively. Her younger sister, Georgia, is also a pole vaulter. In 2015, she married Mitchell Krier, her future coach and also a pole vaulter. She lives permanently in United States.
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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