Diamanto Evripidou

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Diamanto Evripidou
Full nameDiamanto Evripidou
Born (2000-03-30) 30 March 2000 (age 25)
Strovolos, Cyprus [1]
Height162 cm (5 ft 4 in) [2]
Gymnastics career
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Country
represented		Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus
ClubDiagoras Rhythmic Gymnastics Club
Head coach(es) Chrystalleni Trikomiti
Medal record
Women's rhythmic gymnastics
Representing Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast All-Around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Hoop
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Ball
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Ribbon
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Clubs

Diamanto Evripidou (born 30 March 2000) is a Cypriot former individual rhythmic gymnast. She was the 2016 Cyprus national championship and competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, where she medaled in every event, including winning the all-around.

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Early life

Evripidou's mother was also a rhythmic gymnast, and she took Evripidou to the gym where she worked as a coach when she was a baby. She began training at four years old with her mother, who remained one of her coaches throughout her career. [3]

Career

Evripidou was the national senior champion of Cyprus in 2016. [4]

She broke her right leg in May 2016, which took her five months to recover from, and then broke the left in December 2016 or January 2017. [3] [5] Her left leg was very weak after her cast was removed, and she found the experience mentally difficult. [3] She attributed her frequent injuries to training in a gym with poor temperatures and without a sprung floor as well as overtraining. [3] [6]

Evripidou recovered in time to compete at the 2017 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, where her best result was place 24th in the ribbon qualifications. Later that year, she competed at the 2017 World Championships in Pesaro, Italy and placed 42nd in the all-around qualification. [1]

She took a year off from secondary school to increase her training time and lived for six weeks in Larnaca at the house of Chrystalleni Trikomiti, her other coach, to prepare for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. The gym there had sprung floors. [6]

At the Games, she won six medals, one in every event: four golds in the team, all-around, hoop and ball events, silver in ribbon and bronze in the clubs event. [2] Evripidou expressed shock at her results, saying, "I came here to win one medal and now I have six." This was the first time Cyprus had won a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games team event. [7] Her success meant that Cyprus won more medals at a Commonwealth Games (eight) than it ever had before. [8]

Although she had said her dream was to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics, [7] she announced her retirement from competitive sport in June 2019 via her Instagram profile. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 "EVRIPIDOU Diamanto(CYP)". International Gymnastics Federation . Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Diamanto EVRIPIDOU". Gold Coast 2018. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Psyllou, Despina (22 April 2018). "Διαμάντω Ευρυπίδου: Το χρυσό κορίτσι της ρυθμικής αποκαλύπτει το δράμα που βίωσε!" [Diamanto Evripidou: The golden girl of rhythmic reveals the drama she experienced!]. philenews (in Greek). Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  4. ↑ Andreou, Paris J. (19 April 2016). "Η Διαμάντω Ευριπίδου στις γυναίκες και η Ελένη Έληνα στις νεάνιδες" [Diamanto Evripidou in the women's category and Eleni Elina in the junior category]. Action In Sports Cyprus (in Greek). Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  5. ↑ Andreou, Paris J. (22 May 2017). "Πολύ καλή παρουσία η Διαμάντω Ευριπίδους στο 33rd European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships 2017" [Very good performance by Diamanto Evripidou at the 33rd European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships 2017]. Action In Sports Cyprus (in Greek). Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  6. 1 2 Odysseos, Andreas (17 April 2018). "Η άγνωστη Διαμάντω και η δύσκολη πορεία προς την κορυφή" [The unknown Diamanto and the difficult course to the top]. AlphaNews (in Greek). Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  7. 1 2 Bacic, Angela (14 April 2018). "One of every kind for Cyprus gymnast". The Women's Game. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  8. ↑ "Cypriot falls short eclipsing Mitch's haul". Nine. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  9. ↑ Evripidou, Diamanto [@diamandoevripidou]; (26 July 2019). "I'm leaving with my head held high knowing that I always did my best all these years" – via Instagram.
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