{"id":2829,"date":"2025-12-20T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iroes.test\/athletes\/katerina-stefanidi\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:12:52","slug":"katerina-stefanidi","status":"publish","type":"athlete","link":"https:\/\/www.iroes.gr\/en\/athletes\/katerina-stefanidi\/","title":{"rendered":"Katerina Stefanidi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was born in Athens on February 4, 1990 and grew up in Pallini.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is the most important athlete in the history of Greek athletics, having won a total of 12 medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Indoor and Outdoor Championships, mainly in athletics.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He lived and studied in the USA (at Stanford)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has broken all age-group World records, especially the u18 category record with 4.37m.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her most important successes:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2024<\/strong> \u2013Silver medal at the European Championships in Rome<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022<\/strong> &#8211; Silver medal at the European Championships in Munich<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> &#8211; 4th place at the Olympic Games in Tokyo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong> &#8211; Bronze medal at the Doha World Championships<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018<\/strong> &#8211; Gold medal at the European Championships in Berlin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018<\/strong> &#8211; Bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Birmingham<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017<\/strong> &#8211; Gold medal at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Belgrade<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017<\/strong> &#8211; Gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in London<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016<\/strong> &#8211; Gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016<\/strong> &#8211; Bronze medal at the World Athletics Championships in Portland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016<\/strong> -Gold medal at the European Athletics Championships in<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amsterdam<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015<\/strong> &#8211; Silver medal at the European Indoor Championships<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>in Prague<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong> -Silver medal at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2847,"template":"","sport":[394,385],"class_list":["post-2829","athlete","type-athlete","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sport-hammer-throw","sport-pole-vault"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Katerina Stefanidi &#8226; Iroes.gr<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iroes.gr\/en\/athletes\/katerina-stefanidi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Katerina Stefanidi &#8226; Iroes.gr\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"He was born in Athens on February 4, 1990 and grew up in Pallini. 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