Konstantinou, Tsirounis & Feleki Endurance Championship 

Markopoulo, May 2, 2023

Press release

With great success and record participation, the Championship and the CEI were held the ast two days, April 29 & 30, in the Equestrian Club of Kilkis and the wider area. In the Seniors Category, Christos Constantinou from Lamia and AIOLJC with Soraya, who completed the 100 km route, was the Champion. with total time 07:30:24. Second was Manolis Mahramas from Rhodes and KEIR with LLG Nadide with a time of 07:43:20 and third was Stella Papanikolaou also from KEIR with GA Evinia with a time of 07:43:21.

In Juniors Category, the only athlete who finished the 80 km. in a time of 05:17:13 was Andreas Tsirounis with Akira from Lamia and AIOLJC and he was named Champion. In the Children's Category, Sofia Feleki of IPOA was crowned Champion with Nihal who completed the 60km course in time 04:08:26. In 2nd place was Kyriaki Kalpaxidou with Amira of AIK with a time of 04:08:27 and in 3rd place Areti Patsioura with Salamon Ektoras R of IOKIL with a time of 04:49:57.

In the remaining categories of the competition, the winners were in Category B Polychronis Papadopoulos of IOKIL with Atac, in Category C Vasiliki Galigalidou with Izarma of IOPI, in Category D Georgia Mamai of IPOA with Morgan and in Category D for Children Vasiliki Katsaros with Faidra of IOPI.

In the CEI2* the only athlete who finished the 120 km. in a time of 08:10:06 was Bulgarian Martin Kolev with Mafia who won 1st place. In the CEI1* the winner was the Romanian Claudiu Mihail Mircea with Zizitop who completed the 100km. in 06:39:07, while for Greece in 4th place was Manolis Mahramas with LLG Nadide with a time of 07:43:20 and in 5th place Giannoula Mitona with Aphroditi with a time of 08:01:10. Athletes from Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania participated in the international competitions.

The Championship was dedicated to the memory of George Papadopoulos, one of the pioneers of Endurance in Greece, international judge, international steward and the only Greek international Technical Delegate, who recently passed away.