In the same year, he won the silver medal at the 2005 Summer Universiade with a personal best jump of 5.75 metres.

The sample was delivered on 16 June 2007 in an in-competition test at the national athletics championships.

He then successfully applied for a reduction in his ineligibility period and subsequently he was eligible to resume competition from the 16th of February 2009.

[2] In the 2012 indoor season, Filippidis again broke the Greek national record with a vault of 5.75 m, while in the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul he once again reached the final, taking 7th place.

Konstantinos Filippídis took the first place in the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot.