Virginia Kravarioti

In a Yngling , Kravarioti was Olympic third in 2008 ...

... and in a Laser Radial 2004 Olympic champion

Virginia Kravarioti ( Greek Βιργινία Κραβαριώτη , born April 27, 1984 in Athens , Greece) is a Greek regatta sailor. Her achievements celebrated at the Olympic Games: 2004 in Greece reached in the Laser Radial 9th place and in China in 2008 in the Yngling - Keelboat (with Sofia Bekatorou and Sofia Papadopoulou) the bronze medal.

Life

Virginia Kravarioti began sailing at the age of ten on an optimist and took part in a regatta for the first time when she was fourteen. In 1998 she won the Greek Championship in the Dinghy Laser Radial , a slightly smaller version of the single-handed dinghy Laser. The next year she took part in her first international regatta, the Youth Worlds regatta in Finland.

For the next few years, Kravarioti continued to sail mainly in the Laser Radial. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where there were no competitions in the Laser Radial and no women-only competitions in the laser, she competed in the boat class Europe and reached 9th place. The following year, again in the Laser Radial, she achieved fourth place at the international Holland Regatta in Medemblik, the Netherlands . At the World Championships in Fortaleza , Brazil , however, she only started in the less powerful class of the Silver Fleet , in which she finished seventh. She finished the Laser Radial World Championships in 2006 in Los Angeles , 2007 in Cascais, Portugal, and 2008 in Auckland, respectively, in 18th, 43rd and 40th places. At the European Championships in 2005 in Split, Croatia, Kravarioti finished 25th (29 .), 2006 in Riccione, Italy, 31st, 2007 in The Hague, Netherlands, 11th place.

Kravarioti also began to train with 470 World Champion and Olympic Champion Sofia Bekatorou and Sofia Papadopoulou (Σοφία Παπαδοπούλου) on the keelboat Yngling . The three Greek women finished tenth at the 2008 Yngling European Championship in Blanes, Spain , which is also open to non-European sailors (ninth in the purely European ranking). Bekatorou and Papdopoulou had already qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in China with their previous sailing partner Christina Charamountani (Χριστίνα Χαραμουντάνη) . Although a laser radial competition was held for women for the first time at these games, Kravarioti then took part in the games in Yngling. At the Olympic Yngling competition held in Qingdao , Bekatorou, Papadopoulou and Kravarioti were able to improve in the individual races after an initial 10th and 12th place up to a second place (5th race) and finally won the bronze medal.

Web links

• Kravarioti on the pages of the 2008 Olympic Games ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (with photo)
• Kravarioti on sailing.org (not up to date)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Virginia Kravarioti on sailing.org (accessed August 13, 2008)
2. ^ Laser Radial Open & Womens Worlds 2-9 December 2005. FINAL. Results Radial_women - Silver on www.laserinternational.org ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2008 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. (accessed August 13, 2008) 
3. ↑ all EM and World Cup information, but possibly incorrect information for EM 2005 (29th place):

   Βιργινία Κραβαριώτη on sport.gr ( Memento of the original on 19 June 2008 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Greek) 

   parallel information for the World Championships:

   Results Women - gold on www.laserinternational.org ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

   Athlete Biography. KRAVARIOTI Virginia on the pages of the 2008 Olympic Games ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

   parallel information for EM 2005 (here: 25th place) and 2007:

   Results female / European Championship on www.laserinternational.org ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2007 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. 

   Laser Radial European / World Championship 2007. Results Female - Gold. on www.laserklasse.nl  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (all accessed August 13, 2008)  

4. ↑ Clasificación general on the pages of cvblanes.esportcatala.com ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2008 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. (accessed August 13, 2008) 
5. ↑ Yngling - Women - Overall Results at www.sailing.org (accessed August 17, 2008)