Eirini Karastergiou

Eirini Karastergiou
Personal information
Full name Eirini Karastergiou
National team  Greece
Born (1982-11-20) 20 November 1982
Lamia, Sterea Ellada, Greece
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
Club ANC Glyfada

Eirini Karastergiou (Greek: Ειρήνη Καραστεργίου; born November 20, 1982) is a Greek former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] She previously held two Greek records in both 100 and 200 m backstroke, until they were all broken each by Aspasia Petradaki and Stella Boumi in 2009.[2]

Karastergiou qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, representing the host nation Greece. She cleared FINA B-standard entry times of 1:03.26 (100 m backstroke) and 2:14.82 (200 m backstroke) from the Greek Open in Piraeus.[3][4] In the 100 m backstroke, Karastergiou challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including top medal favorite Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe. She edged out Finland's Hanna-Maria Seppälä to take a seventh spot and thirty-third overall by a quarter of a second (0.25) in 1:05.30.[5][6] In the 200 m backstroke, Karastergiou placed thirtieth in the morning prelims. Swimming in heat two, she rounded out a field of eight swimmers to last place by less than 0.18 of a second behind Thailand's Chonlathorn Vorathamrong in 2:21.93.[7][8]

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