Vasileios Polymeros

Vasileios Polymeros (* 20th February 1976 in Volos ) is a retired Greek lightweight - rowers , who won two medals in four Olympic appearances.

Athletic career

Polymeros always took part in the Olympic Games in lightweight double sculls. In 1996 in Atlanta he finished tenth together with Ioannis Kourkourikis . After he had finished sixth in the U23 World Championships in 1997 in the lightweight single , he started at the world championships without age limit in the lightweight quadruple sculls and finished fifth in this boat class. In 1998 Polymeros was U23 world champion in the lightweight singles, at the world championships without age restriction he finished ninth in the singles. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , Polymeros and Panagiotis Miliotis took eighth place in the lightweight double sculls.

Polymeros won his first international medal in the adult class along with Nikolaos Skiathitis , Ioannis Kourkourikis and Panagiotis Miliotis at the 2001 World Championships when the Greek lightweight quadruple finished second behind the Italians. In 2002, Skiathitis and Polymeros competed in lightweight double sculls and finished fifth at the World Championships . In 2003 in Milan , the two Greeks finished eleventh. After Skiathitis and Polymeros had twice reached the A final in the 2004 Rowing World Cup , they won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens behind the boats from Poland and France, but just ahead of the Danes Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist .

In 2005, Polymeros switched from double sculls to lightweight singles, and at the World Championships in Gifu , he won the title five seconds ahead of Briton Zac Purchase . In 2006 Polymeros won the single at the beginning of the World Cup, but then switched to the double scull with Dimitrios Mougios . After finishing third at the World Cup in Lucerne, the two rowed to ninth place at the World Championships in Eton . A year later at the 2007 World Championships in Munich, the Danes Rasmussen and Quist won, followed by Mougios and Polymeros who received the silver medal. In September 2007 the Hungarians Zsolt Hirling and Tamás Varga won the European Championships , Polymeros and Mougios also won the silver medal here. The two Greeks received another silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Here the British Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter won ahead of the Greeks and the Danish world champions from 2007. Neither the British two nor the Danes competed at the 2008 European Championships , here the two Greeks won the title at the end of the season. At his last World Cup participation in Poznan in 2009 , Polymeros won the silver medal in the one behind New Zealander Duncan Grant . At the European Championships in 2009 , Polymeros competed with Mougios in the lightweight double scull and defended his title from the previous year.

The 1.78 m tall Vasileios Polymeros had the typical weight of 72 kg for a lightweight rower.

Web links

• Vasileios Polymeros in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Vasileios Polymeros at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )