Theodora Gkountoura

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Theodora Gkountoura
Theodora Gkountoura - 2023 European Games.jpg
Theodora Gkountoura at the 2023 European Games.
Personal information
Born (1997-03-14) 14 March 1997 (age 27)
Athens, Greece
Height184 cm (6 ft 0 in) [1]
Sport
CountryGreece
Sport Fencing
Weapon Sabre
Handright-handed
ClubA.O. Ariston Paianias
Highest ranking3rd (sabre, 2023)
Current ranking current ranking
Medal record
Women's sabre
Representing Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Budapest Individual
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Milan Individual
European Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Kraków Individual
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Plovdiv Individual

Theodora Gkountoura (born 14 March 1997) is a Greek sabre fencer.

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She participated at the 2019 World Fencing Championships, winning a bronze medal. [2] [3] She won again the bronze medal at the 2023 World Fencing Championships, defeated in the semi-final by the world champion Misaki Emura by 15-14. [4]

She has won the silver medal in the Orléans Grand Prix 2021 and the gold medal in the Grand Prix of Seoul in 2023. [3]

As for the World Cup, she has won the bronze medal in Athens in 2020, the silver medal in Tbilisi in 2022, the bronze medal in Algiers in 2022, the silver medal in Tashkent in 2023, the bronze medal in Athens in 2023, the bronze medal in Sint-Niklaas in 2023, the bronze medal in Algiers in 2023 and the bronze medal in Sint-Niklaas in 2024. [3]

She has also won the bronze medal at the individual women's sabre event of the 2023 European Games [5]

So far, she has reached a career highest ranking of 3rd place in the 2021–2022 season. [3]

She has been a fencing athlete of AEK multi-sport club, [3] [6] but she's currently an athlete of A.O. Ariston Paianias. [7] [8] She has been 4 times champion in sabre in Greece. [9]

Medal record

World Championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2019 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Women's Sabre3rd
2023 Milan, ItalyIndividual Women's Sabre3rd

Grand Prix

YearLocationEventPosition
2021Orléans, FranceIndividual Women's Sabre2nd
2023Seoul, South KoreaIndividual Women's Sabre1st

World Cup

YearLocationEventPosition
2020Athens, GreeceIndividual Women's Sabre3rd
2022Tbilisi, GeorgiaIndividual Women's Sabre2nd
2022Algiers, AlgeriaIndividual Women's Sabre3rd
2023Tashkent, UzbekistanIndividual Women's Sabre2nd
2023Athens, GreeceIndividual Women's Sabre3rd
2023Sint-Niklaas, BelgiumIndividual Women's Sabre3rd
2023Algiers, AlgeriaIndividual Women's Sabre3rd
2024Sint-Niklaas, BelgiumIndividual Women's Sabre3rd

European Games

YearLocationEventPosition
2023 Kraków, PolandIndividual Women's Sabre3rd

European Championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2023 Plovdiv, BulgariaIndividual Women's Sabre3rd [10] [11]

National Championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2016 OAKA, AthensIndividual Women's Sabre2nd [9]
2017 OAKA, AthensIndividual Women's Sabre3rd [9]
2018 OAKA, AthensIndividual Women's Sabre1st [9]
2019 OAKA, AthensIndividual Women's Sabre1st [9]
2020 OAKA, AthensIndividual Women's Sabre1st [9]
2021 OAKA, AthensIndividual Women's Sabre1st [9]

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