Biurakn Hakhverdian is a Dutch water polo player who represents the Dutch national team in international competitions. She is of Iranian Armenian descent.
Ethnikos Piraeus is a Greek multisport club based in Piraeus. It was founded in 1923. The full name of the club is Ethnikos Omilos Filathlon Pireos/Phalirou or Ethnikos OFPF, which means National Club of Fans of Piraeus and Phalerum. Ethnikos has sections in football, basketball, volleyball, waterpolo, swimming. In most of these sports, Ethnikos has won titles and honours. The most successful department is by far the water polo, which has won many domestic and European titles. Nevertheless, the most popular is the football team, which had a remarkable tradition in the first division in the past.
Greece has risen to prominence in a number of sporting areas in recent decades. Football in particular has seen a rapid transformation, with the Greece national football team winning the UEFA Euro 2004. Many Greek athletes have also achieved significant success and have won world and olympic titles in numerous sports during the years, such as basketball, wrestling, water polo, athletics, weightlifting, with many of them becoming international stars inside their sports. The successful organisation of the Athens 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games led also to the further development of many sports and has led to the creation of many world class sport venues all over Greece and especially in Athens. Greek athletes have won a total 169 medals for Greece in 17 different Olympic sports at the Summer Olympic Games, including the Intercalated Games, an achievement which makes Greece one of the top nations globally, in the world's rankings of medals per capital
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.
Antigoni Roumpesi or Antigoni Roumbesi is a Greek water polo player, World Aquatics gold champion and Olympic silver medalist with the Greece women's national water polo team.
The Greece men's national water polo team represents Greece in international men's water polo competitions and it is organized and run by the Hellenic Swimming Federation.
Iefke van Belkum is a water polo player of the Netherlands who represents the Dutch national team in international competitions.
Alexandra Asimaki is a Greek water polo player considered one of the best female water polo players in the world in the 21st century.
Eleftheria Plevritou is a Greek water polo player for Olympiacos Water Polo Club and the Greece women's national team. She was part of the Greece women's national water polo team that won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championship in Barcelona. She is considered as one of the best female players in water polo.
Ashleigh Elizabeth Johnson is an American water polo player of Ethnikos Piraeus team, who is considered by many to be the best goalkeeper in the world. She was part of the American national team that won the gold medal at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships. In 2016, she became the first African-American woman to make the US Olympic team in water polo. She was part of the gold-medal winning 2016 and 2020 U.S. women's water polo Olympic teams, and earned a spot on the 2024 U.S. women's water polo Olympic team. She is a 2017 graduate of Princeton University. She is 6'1" tall and her team nickname is "Ayay."
Roberta Bianconi is an Italian water polo player. She was part of the Italian team that won the silver medal at the 2016 Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships.
Alkistis Christina Benekou is a water polo player from Greece.
Maria Olegovna Borisova is a Russian female water polo player. She was part of the Russia women's national water polo team.
Stavroula Antonakou is a retired Greek water polo player, playing as a driver, World Champion with the Greek women's national water polo team. She was a part of the team at the European Championships, including at the 2008, 2010 and 2012 Women's European Water Polo Championship.
Maria Tsouri is a Greek water polo player, part of Greece women's national water polo team that won the Silver Medal at the 2010 European Championship in Zagreb, the Gold Medal at the 2005 FINA Women's Water Polo World League in Kirishi and the Bronze Medal at the 2010 World League in San Diego. She also competed with the Greece women's national water polo team in the 2006 European Water Polo Championship, the 2007 World Championship, the 2008 European Championship and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Ioanna Stamatopoulou is a Greek water polo player, playing as a goalkeeper for Olympiacos and the Greece women's national team. As a player of Olympiacos, she won the 2014–15 LEN Euro League Women, the 2015 Women's LEN Super Cup and the 2014 Women's LEN Trophy. She was part of the Greece women's national water polo team that won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championship in Barcelona and the bronze medal at the 2015 European Games in Baku. She started competing water polo in 2009 with the team of Ethnikos Piraeus before moving to Olympiacos in 2012.
Kyriakos "Koulis" Iosifidis is a retired Greek water polo player and water polo coach. As a player, he was part of the Greece men's national water polo team at the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games. and at club level member of Greek powerhouse Ethnikos Piraeus with whom he won 19 Greek Championships between 1964 and 1983.
Stephania Haralabidis was born in Athens, Greece. Haralabidis is a Greek American water polo player who played at USC and currently playing for Ethnikos and the U.S. national team. Haralabidis also has two sisters, her twin Ioanna and older sister Anastaia. Ioanna was also on the USC women's water polo team.
Greece competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with a team of 101 athletes in 17 sports. Greek athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Great Britain, and Switzerland. As the progenitor nation of the Olympic Games and in keeping with the tradition, Greece entered first at Place du Trocadéro during the parade of nations segment of the opening ceremony.
Verica Bakoc is a Canadian water polo player who plays for Mediterrani and for the Canada women's national team.
