Papaflessia

Papaflessia (Greek: Παπαφλέσσεια) is an annual international athletics meeting that is held in Kalamata, Greece. The meeting falls within the European Athletic Association's calendar of meeting.^[1] The event caters to both men and women and athletic events held at the meeting include sprints, high jump, long jump, triple jump and javelin.^[2]

Papaflessia was named in honour of Papaflessas, a Greek priest and celebrated military leader who died at the Battle of Maniaki during the Greek Revolution. The meeting was inaugurated in 1954 and was held at the stadium of Messiniakos until 1968, when a military coup d'état ceased festivities. The athletics meeting was revived in 1984 and events held in the Kalamata Metropolitan Stadium were mainly contested between local athletes. In 1994 the meeting expanded to include international athletes. Past participants include Olympic gold medallists Stefka Kostadinova and Yelena Yelesina and English sprinters Dwain Chambers and John Regis.^[1]

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European Athletics Classic Meetings

European Athletics Festival Bydgoszcz Internationales Leichtathletik Meeting Dessau Meeting Iberoamericano de Atletismo Meeting international de Montreuil Cezmi Or Memorial International Athletic Meeting in Honor of Miner's Day Brothers Znamensky Memorial Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern Gugl Games Gyulai Istvàn Memorial Janusz Kusociński Memorial KBC Night of Athletics Athletics Bridge Meeting Stanislas Meeting international Sotteville-lès-Rouen Terra Sarda Meeting Città di Padova Notturna di Milano

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