Épiphanie Nyirabaramé is a Rwandan athlete who specialized in marathon and long-distance running. She represented Rwanda at two Olympic games.
Zemzem Ahmed Deko is an Ethiopian steeplechase runner and road runner. She emerged as one of Ethiopia's top steeplechasers, and had broken her own personal records three times in 2007.
Nina Kathy Rillstone is a New Zealand long-distance and marathon runner. She is a national champion in both middle and long-distance running, and a national record holder for the half-marathon.
Eleni Kosti is a Greek former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. She represented her nation Greece in two editions of the Olympic Games, and also won a bronze medal as part of the freestyle relay team at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain. Kosti trained throughout her swimming career for Olympiakos sports league in Athens under the tutelage of her coach Markos Mantaloufas.
Martha Matsa is a Greek swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a two-time Olympian, and a member of the swimming team for HAN Thessaloniki.
Nataliya Anatoliïvna Samorodina is a Ukrainian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events and open water marathon. She represented Ukraine in two editions of the Olympic Games and also swam for Ukraïna Zaporizhzhia.
María José Pueyo Bergua is a Spanish marathon runner. At age thirty-eight, Pueyo made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's marathon, along with her compatriots Alessandra Aguilar and Cuban-born Yesenia Centeno. She finished the race in sixty-fourth place by thirty-one seconds ahead of Hungary's Petra Teveli, with a time of 2:48:01.
Yesenia Centeno Sousa is a Spanish marathon runner. In 2003, she adopted Spanish nationality in order to compete internationally for the marathon. Five years later, she achieved a top-ten finish at the Fortis Rotterdam Marathon, and also, set her personal best time of 2:31:16 by finishing fourth at the Hamburg Marathon.
Petra Prokoppne Teveli is a Hungarian marathon runner. In 2008, she set her personal best time of 2:35:21 by finishing fifth in the Turin Marathon.
Afroditi Skafida is a female Greek pole vaulter. She is a four-time outdoor and a three-time indoor champion for Greece.
Evangelia Xinou is a female Greek race walker. She is a four-time national champion (2005–2008) for the 20 km race walk .
Dimitra Dova is a Greek sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres. She won the gold medal for her category at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain, with a time of 52.67 seconds, defeating her compatriot Phara Anacharsis by three hundredths of a second (0.03).
Oksana Serhiïvna Sklyarenko is a Ukrainian marathon runner. In 2008, she set a personal best time of 2:36:14, by winning the bronze medal in the Turin Marathon.
Marily dos Santos is a Brazilian marathon runner. Aged 30 she made her Olympic debut, placing 51st in the 2008 Olympic marathon in a time of 2:38:10. She finished fifth at the 2015 Pan American Games and 78th at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Antonella Bogarín is an Argentine swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon events. She represented her nation Argentina at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing twenty-fourth in the inaugural open water marathon.
Monika Mariola Drybulska-Stefanowicz is a Polish marathon runner. She set her personal best time of 2:29:57 at the 2003 Berlin Marathon. Drybulska also competed in the women's marathon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but did not finish the race.
Sonia Calizaya Huanca is a Bolivian marathon runner. She set both a national record and a personal best time of 2:45:05 at the 2007 Buenos Aires Marathon.
Aurélie Muller is a French swimmer, who specializes in long-distance freestyle events and open water marathon. She won the 10-kilometer competition at the 2015 world championship in Kazan, Russia and at the 2017 world championship in Budapest, Hungary.
Sabina Veit is a Slovenian sprinter. She set a personal best and an Olympic A-standard time of 22.74 seconds, by winning the 200 metres at the Slovenian Open Athletics Championships, coincidentally in her home city. She also won a bronze medal in the same distance at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, finishing her time at 23.34 seconds.
Eftychia "Efi" Mantzaraki is a Greek former sailor, who specialized in the Yngling and Laser Radial classes. She represented the host nation Greece in the three-woman keelboat at the 2004 Summer Olympics, before switching to a single-handed boat on her second trip to Beijing 2008. Mantzaraki trained full-time under her personal coach Christos Chionas, while sailing competitively for Katoikon Vouliagmeni.
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