Mirela Maniani

Mirela Manjani (Greek Μιρέλα Μανιάνι, even Mirela Tzelili; born December 21, 1976 in Durres ) is a Greek javelin thrower Albanian origin who was twice World Champion and won the 2000 and 2004 Olympic medals.

Manjani began in 1996 in Atlanta for the first time in the Olympic Games in part, at that time for her native Albania. At the opening ceremony it was flag bearer. In 1997 she came to Greece, took the wedding with the weightlifter Giorgios Tzelili Greek citizenship and competed at the 1997 World Championships in Athens for the first time in Greece. As in the previous year in Atlanta but Manjani failed in the preliminaries.

Since she won at the 1999 World Championships in Seville to the world record of 67.09 meters, it is one of the stars of athletics in Greece. Silver medals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, as well as the re- title win at the World Championships in Paris in 2003 made ​​it the major gold hope the Greeks at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, but she won only the bronze medal.

Mirela Manjani had a competition weight of 64 kg at a height of 1.65 m.