Emmanuel Karalis wrote history: The achievements of the Greek champion who entered his elite in short distance

He is one of the world’s best pollinators and since Sunday afternoon August 25 he entered with the… dot in the elite of the race with the historic six-foot jump he made in the Diamond League of Horzov. Emmanuel Karalis is in unimaginable condition, sweeping the medals in any event he has been competing in recent months. The Greek champion managed to overshadow even the historic bronze medal he won at the Paris Olympics, as after a few days he spent the 6 metres and entered his elite in short. On the occasion of Emmanuel Karali’s historic 6.00 in the Diamond League of Horzov, the official website of SEGAS recorded 15 small stories that link the Greek champion to the event, on the other hand they constitute a flashback in this year’s super year, which put him for good in the elite of the race. This was Karali’s third nationwide record after 5.92 in Bidgoz on June 20 and 5.93 in Volos on June 29 at the Panhellenic Championships. He also holds the nationwide K18 records (5.55), K20 (5.80) and K23 (5.80). This year he jumped four times over 5.90 (add to the above and 5.90 to the Paris Olympics). Only Kostas Filipidis had previously jumped over 5.90 (5.91). Horzoff’s Diamond League was the fifth match Manolo attempted to pass by 6.00. Rome, Volos, Paris and Bidgoz had preceded them. In the last match, as in the Rome European Championship, he had tried to exceed 6.02. Ironically, only in the Volos Panhellenic Championships won having jumped 5.90 or more. 29 athletes from 14 countries have at least once exceeded 6.00. Nine are active. Of these, 7 are Americans, 5 Russians, 3 Australians, 3 Germans, 2 French, and one from Sweden, Ukraine, South Africa, Brazil, Poland, Canada, Norway, Philippines and Greece. These 29 have recorded 118 jumps over 6:00. 42 have been noted by Monto Duplantis and 28 by Sergei Bubka. Another 76 performances have been recorded on a closed track. The 22 from Duplantis, 16 from Bubbca and 15 from Reno Lavieni, counting four jumps into an open track. These three are the only ones who have jumped over 6.08. Karalis became the 15th European to break the historic dam. One of the Europeans who have spent the past 6.00s is Polish Piotr Lisek, who belongs to the group with which Karalis trains when he is in Poland under the direction of Marchin Stsepanski. He’s specifically jumped 6.02. Is Manolo’s new target the group record? To feed Manolo’s “contra” with Milto Tentoglou, we say that according to World Athletics tables, 6,00 correspond to 1,267 points versus 8,65 of Miltos. However, both of these performances give 1,231 points to the decathlon. Manolo in a comment said that he proved that black athletes can jump over the 6.00 meters, a statement that responds to reality. For the record, before him closer had American Lawrence Johnson who had jumped 5.98 in 1996. Over 5.90 have yet to pass: German Rafael Holzdepe (5.94 in 2015), Cuban Lazarus Borges in 2011 and also German Bo Canda Lita Bere in 2022 (both 5,90). For the first time an athlete passed 6.00 and took third place. In 8 games two pollinators passed 6.00 in the same match. The highest jump that did not win was Sam Kendricks’ 6.02 in 2020 in Lausanne (6.07 Duplatis). The 6.00 dam was broken internationally on July 13, 1985 in Paris by Sergei Bubka. Within a two-year period, Emmanuel won a medal in Olympics (copper), European championship ( silver), World closed (copper) and European closed (second). Only the World Open is left, an event that in his first two attempts failed to enter the final. In 2025 comes Tokyo World to complete the collection. In an interview on the SEGAS website, Emmanuel Karalis had answered the question “Olympic medal or 6,00 meters?”: “The 6,00 m barrier is a burning desire of all the leading econtists, but the Olympic medal is something incomparable and is the ultimate goal of all. The way I think about it, I want first the six meters before the two big games and then the medals. If I had to pick an Olympic medal or six meters, I would definitely choose the medal. In any case, I want first of all to make Costas Filipidis’s national record and continue for the next”.