Angeliki Exarchou

Angeliki Exarchou
Personal information
Full name Angeliki Exarchou
National team  Greece
Born (1985-08-19) 19 August 1985
Trikala, Greece
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club Olympiakos Athina[1]

Angeliki Exarchou (Greek: Αγγελική Εξάρχου; born August 19, 1985) is a Greek former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[2][1] She represented her nation Greece at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and had also collected a total of four medals (one silver and three bronze) in an international competition, spanning two editions of the Mediterranean Games (2005 and 2009). Exarchou also dipped under a 1:10 barrier to set a Greek record of 1:08.99 in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy.[3]

Exarchou competed as part of the Greek squad in a breaststroke double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she cleared FINA B-standard entry times of 1:09.35 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:30.05 (200 m breaststroke) at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.[4][5] In the 100 m breaststroke, Exarchou raced her steady stretch to sixth place and thirtieth overall by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind Turkey's Dilara Buse Günaydın in 1:10.47.[6] Three days later, in the 200 m breaststroke, Exarchou closed out the field in heat three to last and thirty-ninth overall by nearly ten seconds behind Belarus' two-time Olympian Inna Kapishina in 2:36.83. failing to advance to the semifinals.[7][8]

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