Marios Evangelou, a retired Greek pole vaulter born on May 8, 1981 in Thessaloniki (the second-largest city in Greece), was selected to compete for the host nation Greece's largest Olympic team in the men's pole vault at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
He was selected to compete for the host nation Greece's largest Olympic team in the men's pole vault at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also trained as a member of the athletics squad for the sport club Panathinaikos. Marios Evangelou (Greek:  ; born May 8, 1981 in Thessaloniki) is a retired Greek pole vaulter. Thessaloniki (/slniki/; Greek: , [esalonici (listen)), also known as Thessalonica (English: /slnak, slnk/), Saloniki or Salonica (/slnk, slnik/), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. 
