Anna Korakaki

Anna Korakaki
nation	Greece
birthday	April 8, 1996
place of birth	Thessaloniki ,  Greece
Career
discipline	Sport shooting
Classes	Sports (SP), air (LP)
society	Orion Thessaloniki
Trainer	Tassos Korakakis
National squad	since 2010
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × European Games medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
last change: June 23, 2019

Ioanna "Anna" Korakaki ( Greek Ἰωάννα "Άννα" Κορακάκη , born April 8, 1996 in Thessaloniki ) is a Greek sportswoman specializing in the air pistol and sport pistol disciplines .

Career

Born in Thessaloniki and raised in drama , Korakaki, who was initially enthusiastic about the sport of athletics , was introduced to the sport of shooting at the age of 12 by her father, himself a successful sports shooter. At the age of 14 she was appointed to the selection of Greek sport shooters and in the same year took part in the 2010 World Championships in Munich . In her international debut, Korakaki took eighth place with the air pistol in the junior competition. At the European Championships held in Belgrade in the following year , Korakaki was vice European champion with the sport pistol among the juniors. The Greek won the title of junior European champion with the air pistol three years later at the 2014 European championships in Moscow .

Korakaki took part in the Junior World Cup in Suhl in 2016 , where he took first place with the air pistol and second place with the sport pistol. At the following Senior World Cup in Baku she reached second place in both competitions and also took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the same year . There Korakaki secured the bronze medal in the discipline of 10 meters air pistol and gold over 25 meters with the sports pistol in the final against Monika Karsch .

On March 12, 2020, she was the first torchbearer of the Olympic torch relay for the Tokyo Games. She carried the flame for the first few meters in ancient Olympia and presented the flame in front of the monument in honor of Pierre de Coubertin to the first female torchbearer from Japan, the winner of the Olympic marathon of the 2004 Athens Games, Mizuki Noguchi.

Web links

• Anna Korakaki in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korakaki, Hopes for a Second Medal (Greek) ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.