Spyridon "Spyros" Vasdekis ( el, Σπυρίδων "Σπύρος" Βασδέκης, born 23 January 1970) is a retired

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 ...

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...

er. He was born 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 ...

. He won the gold medal at the

1993 Mediterranean Games The XII Mediterranean Games, commonly known as the 1993 Mediterranean Games, were the 12th Mediterranean Games. The Games were held in Languedoc-Roussillon, France, from 16 June to 27 June 1993, where 2,598 athletes (1,994 men and 604 women) fro ...

, finished tenth at the 1993 World Championships, third at the 1996 European Indoor Championships and eighth at the

1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 6th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France from March 7 to March 9, 1997. It was the first athletic championships to introduce women's pole vault. There were a total numb ...

. His personal best jump is 8.19 metres (26 ft 10.4 in), achieved in July 1995 in

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. This ranks him seventh among Greek long jumpers of all time, behind

Louis Tsatoumas Louis Tsatoumas ( el, Λούης Τσάτουμας, born 12 February 1982) is a Greek long jumper. Biography He won his first major senior medal in 2007 at the European Indoor Athletics Championships, where he claimed the silver medal behind ...

, Miltiadis Tentoglou, Konstantinos Koukodimos, Dimitrios Filindras, Georgios Tsakonas & Dimitrios Serelis.Greek all-time list, men
- Athletix.org Spyros Vasdekis is the older brother of Olga Vasdeki.

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1970 births Living people Greek male long jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Greece Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1993 Mediterranean Games Athletes from Volos {{Greece-athletics-bio-stub