Kostas Filippidis

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. That same year, he won a gold medal in the Mediterranean Games and a silver in the European under-21 competition.

On November 27, 2005, Filippidis became the first athlete to carry the Olympic torch for its journey from ancient Olympia to Turin for the 2006 Winter Olympics.