Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou

Nikoleta 'Nikol' Kyriakopoulou (Greek: Νικολέτα "Νικολ" Κυριακοπούλου, born 21 March 1986) is a Greek pole vaulter. 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.[1] The same year, she became the first Greek athlete to win the IAAF Diamond League.[2]

Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou

Personal information
Born	(1986-03-21) 21 March 1986 Athens, Greece
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Country	Greece
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Pole vault
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	4.81 m (i) 4.83 m
Medal record World Championships 2015 Beijing Pole vault European Championships 2018 Berlin Pole vault 2012 Helsinki Pole vault European Indoor Championships 2019 Glasgow Pole vault European Team Championships 2015 Heraklion Pole Vault Mediterranean Games Pescara 2009 Pole Vault Tarragona 2018 Pole Vault

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 2018 European Championships and bronze medal at the European Championships in Glasgow in 2019.