Spyridon "Spyros" Vasdekis (, born 23 January 1970) is a retired

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er. He was born in

Volos Volos (; ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the capital of the Magnesia (regional unit), Magnesia regional unit of the Thessaly Region. Volos ...

. He won the gold medal at the

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, 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 nu ...

. 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 (, 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 ending in second place after the Italian ...

Miltiadis Tentoglou Miltiadis "Miltos" Tentoglou ( ; born 18 March 1998) is a Greek long jump athlete, who is 14th in the all time lists, but one of the best in terms of achievements, as he is a double Olympic Champion with multiple World and European titles also t ...

Konstantinos Koukodimos Konstandinos "Kostas" Koukodimos (, born 14 September 1969 in Melbourne) is a retired Greek long jumper and New Democracy politician, who served as the mayor of Katerini, Macedonia from 2019 to 2023. He was named the 1991 Greek Mal ...

Dimitrios Filindras Dimitrios Filindras (; born 9 February 1973 in Larissa) is a retired Greek long jumper. He was selected to compete for the host nation Greece's largest Olympic team in the men's long jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also trained throughout ...

, Georgios Tsakonas & Dimitrios Serelis. - Athletix.org Spyros Vasdekis is the older brother of

Olga Vasdeki Olga Vasdeki (, , born 26 September 1973 in Volos) is a Greek triple jumper. 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 ...

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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 for Greece Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1993 Mediterranean Games Athletes from Volos Greek Athletics Championships winners {{Greece-athletics-bio-stub