Dimitra Dova

Dimitra Dova

Personal information
Nationality	Greece
Born	2 July 1974 Athens, Greece
Height	1.84 m (6 ft ^1⁄2 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Sprint
Club	ASE Douka (GRE)
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	200 m: 24.68 s (2008) 400 m: 51.89 s (2005)
Medal record Women's athletics Competitor for  Greece Mediterranean Games 2005 Almería 400 m

Dimitra Dova (Greek: Δήμητρα Ντόβα; born July 2, 1974 in Athens) is a Greek sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres.^[1] She won the gold medal for her category at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain, with a time of 52.67 seconds, defeating her compatriot Phara Anacharsis by three hundredths of a second (0.03).^[2]

Dova represented the host nation Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics, coincidentally in her home city, where she placed eighth for her national sprint team in the women's 4 × 400 m relay, with a time of 3:45.70.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Dova competed for the women's 400 metres this time, as an individual athlete. She ran in the fifth heat against six other athletes, including American track star Sanya Richards, who eventually won a bronze medal in the final. She finished the race in fifth place by nine hundredths of a second (0.09) behind Japan's Asami Tanno, with a time of 52.69 seconds. Dova, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed twenty-ninth overall and was ranked below three mandatory slots for the next round.^[3]

References

1. "Dimitra Dova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
2. "Greece take three Golds in Almeria". European Athletics. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
3. "Women's 400m Round 1 – Heat 5". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 15 December 2012.

External links

• Dimitra Dova profile at IAAF
• NBC Olympics Profile