Mirela manjani biography for kids

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  Albania at the Olympics facts for kids

  Quick facts for kids Albania at the Olympics
  IOC code	ALB
  NOC	Albanian National Olympic Committee
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  Medals	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 0 2 2
  Summer appearances
  1972 1976–1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
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  Albania first participated at the Summer Olympic Games in 1972. After that, Albania missed the next four games, three of them for political reasons due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, 1984 Summer Olympics boycott and 1988 boycotts, but returned for the Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics. They have appeared in all games since then. They made their Winter Olympic Games debut in 2006. Albania normally competes in events that include swimming, friidrott, weightlifting, shooting, and wrestling. They have been represented by the Albanian National Olympic Committee since 1972.

  Albania won two bronze medals in wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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Manjani – dancing and sprinting to gold

Greece's Mirela Manjani added the World title to the European crown she won in Munich last summer, recapturing the World title which she won in Seville in 1999, and is fast developing an impeccable championships record, having also taken the silver in Sydney and in Edmonton.

Her winning throw of 66.52m tonight came in the fourth round and was a world season’s lead but in reality the competition was hers from her very first release of 64.55m, which was greater than anything her competitors could manage the whole evening.

Throwing the sixth of the twelve competitors in the final, Manjani who is 26 years old, recaptured the World title with a superbly consistent series of 64.55, 64.46, 64.09, 66.52, foul, 56.84.

To gauge the level of the Manjani’s brilliance, no one else managed to throw beyond 63.28 metres, which was the distance at which Tatyana Shikolenko of Russia with a third round throw ultimately snatched silver. Bronze went