Konstadinos Filippidis

Konstantinos Filippidis (born 26 November 1986) is a Greek pole vaulter.

He was successful at junior level, finishing fourth at both the 2003 World Youth Championships and the 2004 World Junior Championships and winning a silver medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships. The same year he won the silver medal at the 2005 Summer Universiade in a personal best jump of 5.75 metres. He also competed at the 2005 World Championships and the 2006 European Athletics Championships without qualifying for the final.

In 2007 Filippidis was found guilty of etilephrine doping. The sample was delivered on 16 June 2007 in an in-competition test at the national athletics championships. He received an IAAF suspension from July 2007 to July 2009. [cite news |author= |title=Doping Rule Violation |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=1073741824/newsId=41644.html |work=IAAF.org |date=14 September 2007 |accessdate=2007-10-26 ]

His personal best of 5.75 metres is also the Greek record. [ [http://www.athletix.org/Statistics/greece.htm Greek athletics records] - The Athletics Site]

ee also

*List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

References

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