Nikolaos Stamatonikolos
Nikolaos Stamatonikolos is a Greek long jumper.
Career
He won the gold medal in the Balkan Athletics U20 Championships of 2022. Also in the same year, Stamatonikolos won the gold medal in the 2022 Panhellenic U20 Championship. Stamatonikolos finished 9th in the qualification rounds and 12th in the finals for the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships – Men's long jump in August. In 2022, an interview with Petros Harizaklis of Metrosport he said "Talented, kind and confident. The Greek athlete of length, Nikos Stamatonikolos, comes from a full season in 2022".In the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's long jump in the qualification rounds Stamatonikolos was 16th in July. Also in the Panhellenic Men in Close Indoor Championship 2023 and the Panhellenic Athletics Championship 2023 long jumping, Stamatonikolos got a silver medal in both. Also in the Piraeus Street Long Jump of 2023 he was 6th.
In the 2024 Tsatoumas Street Long Jump in Kalakata, Stamatonikolos was 8th. Also in the 2024 Panhellenic Men Athletics Indoor Championships, he got a silver medal. in February 2024, the Balkan Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where he got a 7.70 m. In 2024, Nikolaos and his brother Andreas, competed in the 41st Athens Marathon of 2024.
In the Dromeia 2025, in long jumping, Stamatonikolos got 8.14m, with Miltos Tentoglou surpassed him with 8.19m in the last attempt. In an interview with Maria Kaouki of Sport24 in 2025, she said "The best Greek of all time. It's a title of honor and let alone in the season of a great athlete".