Olga Vasdeki ( el, Όλγα Βασδέκη, , born 26 September 1973 in

Volos Volos ( el, Βόλος ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the sixth most populous city of Greece, and the capital of the Magnesia regional unit ...

) is a

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

er. She was the most successful Greek triple jumper and Greek record holder until 1998, when she won the gold medal at the European Championships in Budapest, being at the time just the second female Greek athlete to be crowned European Champion after Anna Verouli in 1982. The following year she won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Seville behind

Paraskevi Tsiamita Paraskevi Tsiamita ( el, Παρασκευή Τσιαμίτα, , born March 10, 1972) is a former track and field athlete from Greece who competed in long jump and triple jump. In 1998 she improved her personal best in triple jump by approximately ...

and Yamile Aldama. She is the younger sister of long jumper

Spyridon Vasdekis Spyridon "Spyros" Vasdekis ( el, Σπυρίδων "Σπύρος" Βασδέκης, born 23 January 1970) is a retired Greek long jumper. He was born in Volos. He won the gold medal at the 1993 Mediterranean Games, finished tenth at the 1993 W ...

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* 1973 births Living people Athletes from Volos Greek female triple jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Greece World Athletics Championships medalists Greek European Athletics champions (track and field) Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games {{Greece-athletics-bio-stub