Apostolos Parellis
Cypriot discus thrower
Apostolos Parellis (Greek: Απόστολος Παρέλλης, born 24 July 1985) is a Cypriot track and field athlete specializing in discus throw. He is the current Cypriot national record holder with 66.32 m (217 ft 7 in) since October 2019.
Parellis competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London narrowly missing a spot in the final after finishing 13th overall with an attempt of 63.48m., just seven centimetres shy of the 12th position that gave the ticket to the final. In the 2015 Athletics World Championships in Beijing, Apostolos clinched 6th spot in the world with a 64.55m. throw.
Since breaking the National Record in 2007 for the first time (57.81m.) at the age of 22, Parellis has been the islands top discus thrower, improving his personal best another eleven times. The 66.32m. mark was set in October 2019 at world championships Doha, Qatar.
Early life
Apostolos Parellis grew up at the village of Paliometocho at the west of the capital Nicosia. He attended the Anthoupoli Junior High and then the Technical School from which he graduated with a mark of 17,6/20.
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