Greece at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships

Greece at the
2017 World Aquatics Championships
Greece at the; 2017 World Aquatics Championships
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FINA code	GRE
National federation	Hellenic Swimming Federation
Website	www.koe.org.gr
in Budapest, Hungary
Competitors	54 in 4 sports
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
World Aquatics Championships appearances
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Greece competed at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from 14 July to 30 July.

Open water swimming

Greece has entered three open water swimmers^[1]^[2]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Georgios Arniakos	Men's 5 km	55:15.0	29
Georgios Arniakos	Men's 10 km	1:54:52.30	39
Asterios Daldogiannis	Men's 5 km	55:40.7	37
Asterios Daldogiannis	Men's 10 km	1:54:39.10	38
Kalliopi Araouzou	Women's 5 km	59:28.00	9
Kalliopi Araouzou	Women's 10 km	2:04:25.7	26

Swimming

Greek swimmers have achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):^[3]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Apostolos Christou	50 m backstroke	24.91	11 Q	24.88	=9	did not advance
	100 m backstroke	53.55	6 Q	54.04	13	did not advance
	200 m backstroke	DNS		did not advance
Stefanos Dimitriadis	200 m butterfly	1:59.07	24	did not advance
Dimitrios Dimitriou	200 m freestyle	1:50.40	47	did not advance
Dimitrios Dimitriou	400 m freestyle	3:56.58	38	—		did not advance
Kristian Golomeev	50 m freestyle	21.69 NR	3 Q	21.71	=5 Q	21.73	7
	100 m freestyle	48.88	20	did not advance
	50 m butterfly	23.85	20	did not advance
Ioannis Karpouzlis	50 m breaststroke	28.07	=33	did not advance
Ioannis Karpouzlis	100 m breaststroke	1:01.95	38	did not advance
Odysseus Meladinis	50 m freestyle	22.50	28	did not advance
Dimitrios Negris	800 m freestyle	8:05.88	24	—		did not advance
Dimitrios Negris	1500 m freestyle	15:35.55	33	—		did not advance
Andreas Vazaios	100 m butterfly	52.88	30	did not advance
Andreas Vazaios	200 m individual medley	1:59.29	9 Q	1:57.98 NR	9	did not advance
Apostolos Christou Kristian Golomeev Christos Katranzis Odysseus Meladinis	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:16.92	11	—		did not advance
Dimitrios Dimitriou Christos Katranzis Dimitrios Negris Andreas Vazaios	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:20.55	17	—		did not advance
Apostolos Christou Kristian Golomeev Ioannis Karpouzlis Andreas Vazaios	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:35.93	14	—		did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Theodora Drakou	50 m freestyle	25.22	19	did not advance
	50 m backstroke	28.22	16 Q	28.13	=15	did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:00.88 NR	18	did not advance
Ilektra Lebl	200 m individual medley	2:19.05	30	did not advance
Ilektra Lebl	400 m individual medley	4:56.95	25	—		did not advance
Anna Ntountounaki	50 m butterfly	26.94	29	did not advance
	100 m butterfly	59.01	22	did not advance
	200 m butterfly	2:12.90	25	did not advance

Synchronized swimming

Greece's synchronized swimming team consisted of 13 athletes (1 male and 12 female).^[4]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Evangelia Platanioti	Solo technical routine	86.9661	7 Q	86.5328	7
Evangelia Platanioti	Solo free routine	87.8000	7 Q	88.0000	7
Evangelia Papazoglou Evangelia Platanioti	Duet technical routine	85.8407	8 Q	85.7439	9
Evangelia Papazoglou Evangelia Platanioti	Duet free routine	87.3000	8 Q	87.6333	8
Maria Armaou (R) Ifigeneia Dipla Valentina Farantouri Giana Gkeorgkieva Vasiliki Kofidi (R) Sofia Malkogeorgou Evangelia Papazoglou Sofia Sarantidi Anna Maria Taxopoulou Athanasia Tsola	Team technical routine	83.8569	9 Q	83.9112	9
	Team free routine	85.3667	9 Q	86.4333	9
Maria Armaou Ifigeneia Dipla Valentina Farantouri Giana Gkeorgkieva Vasiliki Kofidi (R) Olga Kourgiantaki (R) Sofia Malkogeorgou Evangelia Papazoglou Evangelia Platanioti Sofia Sarantidi Anna Maria Taxopoulou Athanasia Tsola	Free routine combination	86.0000	7 Q	87.0000	7

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Olga Kourgiantaki Vasileios Gkortsilas	Duet technical routine	68.1346	9 Q	69.8654	9
Vasiliki Kofidi Vasileios Gkortsilas	Duet free routine	69.7333	10 Q	69.8333	10

Legend: (R) = Reserve Athlete

Water polo

Greece qualified both a men's and women's teams.^[5]^[6]

Men's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Serbia	3	3	0	43	16	+27	6	Quarterfinals
2	Greece	3	2	1	32	20	+12	4	Playoffs
3	Spain	3	1	2	28	23	+5	2	Playoffs
4	South Africa	3	0	3	11	55	−44	0

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) better result against higher placed team.

17 July 2017 13:30	Report	Spain	7–8	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Radoslaw Koryzna (POL), Péter Molnár (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–2, 1–1, 3–2
		Mallarach 2	Goals	Fountoulis, Vlachopoulos 2

19 July 2017 10:50	Report	South Africa	2–18	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Péter Molnár (HUN), Maged El Shamy (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 0–5, 2–3, 0–5, 0–5
		Le Roux, Molyneux 1	Goals	Fountoulis 6

21 July 2017 10:50	Report	Serbia	11–6	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Péter Molnár (HUN), Frank Ohme (GER)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 3–3, 3–0, 3–2
		Filipović 3	Goals	Delakas, Fountoulis 2

Playoffs

23 July 2017 20:30	Report	Greece	14–4	Japan	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), Steven Rotsart (USA)
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 5–0, 2–2, 2–0
		Fountoulis 4	Goals	Adachi 2

Quarterfinals

25 July 2017 14:50	Report	Montenegro	7–12	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 0–1, 2–5, 1–4, 4–2
		A. Radović 2	Goals	Fountoulis 4

Semifinals

27 July 2017 20:30	Report	Greece	5–7	Hungary	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Sergey Naumov (RUS), Francesc Buch (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 3–3, 0–1, 1–1
		Genidounias 3	Goals	Hosnyánszky, Vámos 2

Third place game

29 July 2017 15:00	Report	Greece	8–11	Serbia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Sergey Naumov (RUS), Benjamin Mercier (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 3–5, 1–2, 3–3, 1–1
		Fountoulis 3	Goals	D. Pijetlović, Ranđelović 2

Women's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	3	2	1	37	22	+15	4^[a]	Quarterfinals
2	Australia	3	2	1	32	20	+12	4^[a]	Playoffs
3	Russia	3	2	1	29	21	+8	4^[a]	Playoffs
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	3	15	50	−35	0

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c Greece 2 Pts, +1 GD; Australia 2 Pts, 0 GD; Russia 2 Pts, −1 GD

16 July 2017 21:30	Report	Russia	9–7	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Francesc Buch (ESP), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–3, 2–3, 1–0
		Karimova, Simanovich 3	Goals	three players 2

18 July 2017 13:30	Report	Greece	19–5	Kazakhstan	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Daniel Daners (URU), Stanko Ivanovski (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 5–0, 4–2, 4–1, 6–2
		Asimaki 4	Goals	Akilbayeva 3

20 July 2017 10:50	Report	Australia	8–11	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 3–3, 2–3, 1–3
		Gofers 3	Goals	Asimaki, El. Plevritou 3

Quarterfinals

24 July 2017 22:00	Report	Greece	10–10 ^{(2–4 PSO)}	Spain	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Sergey Naumov (RUS), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 2–2, 2–2, 3–4 PSO: 2–4
		Kotsia 3	Goals	B. Ortiz 4

5th–8th place semifinals

26 July 2017 15:00	Report	Hungary	10–9	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Andrej Franulović (CRO), Benjamin Mercier (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 2–4, 1–2, 5–0, 2–3
		Keszthelyi 3	Goals	Tsoukala 3

Seventh place game

28 July 2017 12:00	Report	Australia	6–8	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Natacha Florestano (BRA), Andrej Franulović (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 0–1, 1–4, 3–3, 2–0
		six players 1	Goals	Tsoukala 3

References

^ "Open Water Entry List by NAT - Men". www.omegatiming.com/. 11 July 2017. Archived from the original on 18 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
^ "Open Water Entry List by NAT - Women". www.omegatiming.com/. 11 July 2017. Archived from the original on 18 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
^ "Entry List by Nation (Swimming)". www.omegatiming.com. Omega Timing. 19 July 2017. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
^ "Entry List by Nation (Synchronized swimming)". www.omegatiming.com. Omega Timing. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
^ "Entry List by Nation (Water Polo Men)" (PDF). www.omegatiming.com. Omega Timing. 15 July 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
^ "Entry List by Nation (Water Polo Women)" (PDF). www.omegatiming.com. Omega Timing. 15 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.

[table_hth_GRE0.3122054400445-7] Greece 2 Pts, +1 GD; Australia 2 Pts, 0 GD; Russia 2 Pts, −1 GD

[1] "Open Water Entry List by NAT - Men". www.omegatiming.com/. 11 July 2017. Archived from the original on 18 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.

[2] "Open Water Entry List by NAT - Women". www.omegatiming.com/. 11 July 2017. Archived from the original on 18 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.

[3] "Entry List by Nation (Swimming)". www.omegatiming.com. Omega Timing. 19 July 2017. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

[4] "Entry List by Nation (Synchronized swimming)". www.omegatiming.com. Omega Timing. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

[5] "Entry List by Nation (Water Polo Men)" (PDF). www.omegatiming.com. Omega Timing. 15 July 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2017.

[6] "Entry List by Nation (Water Polo Women)" (PDF). www.omegatiming.com. Omega Timing. 15 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.

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