Maria Lambrou

Maria Lambrou (also known as Maroula Lambrou-Teloni or Greek: Μαρούλα Λάμπρου-Τελώνη,) born 23 February 1953 in Limassol, Cyprus, is a Cypriot athlete, best known as a long jumper. Her personal best of 6.80 m in the long jump, achieved in Cyprus on 24 May 1985, is a national record.^[1]

Lambrou participated three times in the Olympic games: the 1976 Summer Olympics, the 1980 Summer Olympics, and the 1988 Summer Olympics. At that time she held six national records in Cyprus (100 m, 200 m, 100 m hurdles, long jump, heptathlon, and high jump) and three national records in Greece (long jump, 100 m, and 100 m hurdles). Lambrou also holds the national record for indoor long jump (6.42 m), achieved on 7 February 1976 in Piraeus, Greece.

In 1985, at the Games of the Small States of Europe in San Marino, Lambrou broke five Cypriot records and won several international medals. She jumped 6.80 m in the long jump, ran the 100 m in a time of 11.73 seconds, scored 5,062 in the heptathlon, finished the 200 m with a time of 24.39 seconds, and ran on the 4 x 100 metres relay team, which finished in 46.53 seconds, a Cypriot record. At those same games, she won the gold in the 100 m event with a time of 12.04 seconds and in the long jump with a leap of 6.30 m. At the Bruno Zauli Cup in Austria, Lambrou won the 100 m event.^[2]

As a representative of Cyprus, Lambrou has won several gold medals at the Games of the Small States of Europe, the Mediterranean Games, and the national games held in Cyprus and Greece.

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