the Evangelia Plataniotis After winning the gold medal in the artistic individual, he won another medal in the freestyle individual World Aquatics Championships Doha.
With excellent effort Under the sounds of ZorbaGreek athlete He won the silver medal He wrote the history of Greece in artistic swimming.
the Evangelia Plataniotis collected 253.2833 points She rose to the second step of the podium in the free program, bringing her total to four global medals in her career.
Canadian Jacqueline Simoneaux won the gold medal (264.8207 points), who was crowned world champion. The bronze medal went to Vasilina Kandonska Vasiliki Alexandri Who represented Austria and did not succeed (he had the best performance in qualifying) and finished in sixth place.
Top eight of the final in the women's individual freestyle program:
1. Jacqueline Simoneau (Canada) 264.8207 points
2. Evangelia Plataniotis (Greece) 253.2833
3. Vasilina Hadowska (neutral) 245.1042
4. Huiyan Su (China) 244.2251
5. Clara Plieger (Germany) 230.8894
6. Vasiliki Alexandri (Austria) 222.8938
7. Jasmine Verbena (San Marino) 207.5209
8. Marlos Steinbeek (Netherlands) 207.0979
Its success Evangelias Plataniotis It comes after only a few days Invade to The golden medal In the Technical single.
Where with an excellent program and its choreographic theme titled “black Crow” (ss black raven), for music “dance of death” The difficulty score of 38.9000 (the highest ever) succeeded in beating the qualification score.
It received a score of 101.6500 in the technical impression and 171.3133 in the execution, bringing the total to a total of 101.6500. 272.9633 points, Which exceeded 2,701,901 qualifiers.
the Evangelia Plataniotis Born in 1994 in Athens. He is a graduate of the Department of Business Administration of the University of Piraeus In 2017 he participated in the survival program “Bedouins”.
The Greek athlete started playing sports at an early age, specifically with… Ballet And the rhythmic. Later he turned to Artistic swimming At the request of her parents.
As Platanioti noted in a previous interview, “Our sport really requires a lot of training as well as a lot of skills. Whether in the gym or in the water, we do just about everything. Strength training, fitness, endurance, flexibility, yoga, ballet, acrobatics, running, aerobic and anaerobic swimming. Depending on the preparation period and what we need most at the specified time, the training program comes out».
She even admitted that a training session can last from 6 to 12 hours a day.
Discrimination and Covid
the Evangelia Plataniotis Member of the national team since 2007. In her first participation in Olympic Games, The Londoner competed in the duo with Despina Solomou and finished eighth.
In 2016, at his Olympics rio, He shared tenth place with Evelina Papazoglou. Evangelia Plataniotis has always been consistent in big races with very good positions.
In 2021, he won the silver medal in the individual artistic program European Championship As well as the bronze medal in the freestyle individual for the same event.
A little later that year, she and Despina Papazoglou were ready for another Olympic appearance. but, The multiple cases of infection with the Corona virus did not allow the national artistic swimming team to participate in the matches.
In 2022 Evangelia Plataniotis She achieved the greatest success – up to then – of her career when she won the bronze medal in the Budapest World Championship.
Public discontent
In the same year, he took fourth place in the European Championships in Rome. But she wasn't happy either Through a post on social media, she expressed her grievances about the way she was categorized. “I came to Rome for the gold, because I know what I deserve or because I can fight. Yesterday’s result was embarrassing for the sport… Let’s compare..!”
Here are the third and fourth. Unfortunately, the photographer “accidentally” forgot to show my vertical lines clearly. But even so, you can see something. I'm more than proud of my performance because I already know my worth.
“Fair play is an unknown word for this sport,” said a visibly upset Evagilia Plataniotis.
Greek athlete He left the spikes even after finishing fifth at the World Championships in Fukuoka. “This race was very difficult for me, because I did not have the support I wanted and I had to find sponsors myself,” he told ERT. “The choreography was done, because during the year I tried to be in contact and arrange part of the preparation with the Spanish coaches, last month. All the athletes who come here work for at least a year to provide the choreography, for me, all this work took a month.” .
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