World Championships Medal Counts in the Road to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

Sindo · July 27, 2022

Updated as of July 27th, 2022

Makedonas · July 27, 2022

We are finally making progress here, with men's water polo, Tentoglou and Despina Georgiadou being added. Still no golds though.

Of our Olympic medalists from Tokyo, we still have Ntouskos and Petrounias that didn't have World Championships yet in their sports. As well as others like Anna Korakaki who won two medals in Rio and is ranked number 1 in one event and number 4 in her other event. And in sailing for example, Vasileia Karachaliou is ranked 4th in the Laser Radial (but she probably won't be representing Greece in 2024).

Ted · July 28, 2022

15 hours ago, Makedonas said:

We are finally making progress here, with men's water polo, Tentoglou and Despina Georgiadou being added. Still no golds though.

Of our Olympic medalists from Tokyo, we still have Ntouskos and Petrounias that didn't have World Championships yet in their sports. As well as others like Anna Korakaki who won two medals in Rio and is ranked number 1 in one event and number 4 in her other event. And in sailing for example, Vasileia Karachaliou is ranked 4th in the Laser Radial (but she probably won't be representing Greece in 2024).

Aren't there any other Greek rowers capable of winning medals in Paris?

Makedonas · July 29, 2022

13 hours ago, Ted said:

Aren't there any other Greek rowers capable of winning medals in Paris?

Probably yes, but I am not sure if they can win medals at this year’s World Championships. A lot of them are very young and we will have a better idea over the next two years as they develop.

The Kyridou sisters were also banned from the national team, so they’re out until next year (the reasons are totally ridiculous, only in Elladistan do these things happen…). Bourmpou/Kyridou dominated juniors and U23s together and finished 5th last year in Tokyo as 20 year olds, but it seems like they had a falling out as they no longer follow each other on Instagram (they used to say even when they were winning everything together that they did not get along with each other). There is major drama within the federation and it includes the athletes feuding with each other. It’s too much to explain and I’m sure I only know 5% of it as an outsider.

The Kyridou sisters are training hard in the pair for Paris, and Bourmpou showed up at the World U23s this week with Fragkou, also in the pair. So I have no idea who will be our women’s pair in Paris, and if the others will go to the sculling events or the four. Right now Kyridou/Kyridou and Bourmpou/Fragkou would both be great crews, but obviously we can only send one team per boat class.

Honestly we could have Anastasiadou/Kontou in LW2X, Kyridou/Kyridou in W2-, Bourmpou/Christodoulidis/Dalidou/Tsamopoulou (or maybe Argyraki? Asvesta? Pergouli?) in W4-, and Fragkou/Natsioula in W2X, all possibly contend for medals in Paris. There are others like Gkogkou and Arabatzi that may be capable as well. A lot will change in the next couple years and I’m sure some will probably quit the sport (look at Asoumanaki for example, who was 4th in Rio as a 19 year old in W2X and quit rowing). Nikolaidou hasn’t competed internationally or nationally since 2019, and she said after Tokyo that she wanted to come back for Paris and was waiting for her injuries to finally heal. However it seems that she is working at a hotel on Santorini nowadays…

There might also be some new names emerging. Kontou was barely a thought last year, now suddenly she is our big teen prodigy and we’re talking about her maybe winning a medal in Paris when she’ll be just 18.

On the men’s side, it’s not so good after Ntouskos. Hopefully between Papakonstantinou, Stergiakas, Papachristos, Kalandaridis, Palaiopanos we can make some type of competitive crew that can contend for a medal.