Nikoleta 'Nikol' Kyriakopoulou ( el, Νικολέτα "Νικολ" Κυριακοπούλου, born 21 March 1986) is a Greek

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

er. Nikoleta was 8th at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021. She also won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Beijing in 2015 jumping 4.80m. During the 2015 season, she set five Greek records (indoor and outdoor) raising the bar to 4,83 meters. The same year, she became the first Greek athlete to win the

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. Her first success in a major event was in 2012 when she won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Helsinki. One year earlier, in 2011, she finished 8th at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu. She also won the 2009 Mediterranean Games with a Games record of 4.50 meters, while as a junior athlete she was 6th at the World Championships in Grosseto in 2004. Nikoleta did not compete in 2016 Rio Olympics due to injury. In 2017 she became a mother of a baby girl and announced her return to competition for 2018. She won the silver medal at the

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and bronze medal at the European Championships in Glasgow in 2019.

International competitions

Personal bests

Personal life

Nikoleta is married and has a daughter. She partially hailed from

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* * 1986 births Living people Athletes from Athens Greek female pole vaulters Olympic athletes for Greece Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Greece World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Greece Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Diamond League winners Competitors at the 2007 Summer Universiade Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics 20th-century Greek women 21st-century Greek women {{Greece-athletics-bio-stub