Kostas Filippidis
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Kostas Filippidis is a Greek pole vault athlete.
Filippidis was born on November 26, 1986. He is an athlete of Panellinios Gymnastic Club and, as of August 18, 2005, the Greek record-holder in the pole vault. On that day, he jumped 5.75m in the University Games of Izmir, breaking his own Greek record and winning a silver medal. It marked the fifth time - within two and a half months - that young Filippidis had broken the Greek record.
On November 27, 2005, Filippidis became the first athlete to carry the Olympic torch from ancient Olympia to Turin for the 2006 Winter Olympics.