Athletes who will shine in Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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Also in general I think our women’s rowing team can shine in Paris. We only had three girls in Tokyo.

 

Christina Bourmpou and Maria Kyridou, both 20 years old (18 when they secured qualification for Tokyo) finished 5th in the women’s pair. Maria’s sister, Anneta Kyridou, finished 10th in the women’s single sculls as a 22 year old despite only competing in the event for one year. All three of these girls have won so many medals at the U23 and junior levels, and also European Championships, Youth Olympics, etc. Apparently the Kyridou sisters are training together to compete in the pair in Paris so I’m not sure what Bourmpou will do, but we have some other options that she can make a strong crew with.

 

Evangelia Fragkou this year won four medals in four events. Bronze at the World U23s (double sculls w/Arabatzi), bronze at the World Juniors (single sculls), gold at the European U23s (double sculls w/Anastasiadou), and gold at the European Juniors (double sculls w/Natsioula).

 

Evangelia Anastasiadou was originally going to try to qualify in the women’s lightweight double sculls with Anneta Kyridou, but things changed when Anneta switched to single sculls. Anyways she won gold in the lightweight single sculls at the European U23 Championships in 2020 as an 18 year old, and silver in 2021 at the World U23 Championships in the same event, and also as I said won gold at the European U23s in the double sculls with Fragkou even though Anastasiadou is a lightweight rower at just 165cm.

 

Styliani Natsioula who won gold with Fragkou in the double sculls at the European Juniors this year is another good option. They won bronze together in 2020 when Natsioula was just 15. Natsioula will still only be 19 in Paris so maybe Los Angeles is where she will shine.

 

Lastly, our other good young lightweight rower besides Anastasiadou is Eleni Leventelli. She won bronze this year in the lightweight single sculls at the European U23 Championships as a 17 year old. When Anastasiadou was that age she came in 6th place at the European U23s, so technically her progress is better than Anastasiadou’s at the moment.