Maria Chatzimihailidou

Happy birthday to Greek hurdler Maria Chatzimihailidou, one of our favorite athletes to follow (we know, we’re not supposed to have favorites, but we do). In addition to achieving high-level track and field accomplishments while managing type 1 diabetes, she’s also a physiotherapist, an amazing artist, and probably lots of other cool things we don’t know about. This year, after a lot of practice, we learned to effortlessly pronounce her name, and for that we give ourselves a gold medal, just because we can. Χρόνια πολλά, Μαρία! Να τα εκατοστήσεις, με υγεία, χαρά και πολλές όμορφες στιγμές στον στίβο. 🎂🎁🎉🫶🇬🇷