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Nationality | Greek | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Athens, Greece | 7 September 1986||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paralympic swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Tyrtaios | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Michalis Nikopoulos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexandra Stamatopoulou (born 7 September 1986) is a Greek Paralympic swimmer. She represented Greece at the Paralympic Games. [1]
Stamatopoulou represented Greece at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. In Tokyo she won the bronze medal in the 50 metre backstroke S4 event. [2]
Adamantia Stamatopoulou, known as Mando, is a Greek singer. She was born and raised in Athens by her jazz pianist father, Nikos Stamatopoulos and a classic soprano opera mother, Mary Apergi.
The Greece women's national water polo team represents Greece in international women's water polo competitions. Since the mid-1990s, Greece have emerged as one of the leading powers in the world, becoming World Champions after their gold medal win at the 2011 World Championship. They have also won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the gold medal at the 2005 World League, 3 silver medals at the 2010, 2012 and 2018 European Championships and the gold medal at the 2018 Europa Cup.
Greece, the birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games that hosted the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, did not compete in the Summer Paralympics until 1976 and in the Winter Paralympics until 2002, but since then the Greeks have taken part in every edition of both events. Although the Greek delegation traditionally enters first during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, this tradition does not apply to the Paralympics, where Greece enters within alphabetical order. The National Paralympic Committee for Greece is the Hellenic Paralympic Committee.
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Stamatopoulos is a Greek surname with the feminine form being Stamatopoulou (Σταματοπούλου). It is the surname of:
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Cyprus sent a delegation to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. This was the island country's eighth consecutive appearance in a Summer Paralympiad having made its debut at the 1988 Summer Paralympics. The Cypriot delegation to Rio de Janeiro consisted of two athletes: sprinter Antonis Aresti and short-distance swimmer Karolina Pelendritou. Aresti placed sixth overall in the men's 400 metres T47 event and Pelendritou came fourth in the 100 metres breaststroke SB13 competition after losing the bronze medal by 20 cm (7.9 in) in the final.
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