10 Questions: Greece’s Evangelia Platanioti on her world gold pride, her hopes of evolving the sport – and what she said to IOC President Thomas Bach
As Greece prepares to host the European Aquatics Junior Artistic Swimming Championships in Athens this week, its current world gold and silver medallist in solo events, Evangelia Platanioti, is taking stock of her hugely successful career, Platanioti, 30, won world bronze in the technical and free events at the 2022 World Championships in Budapest. Two […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2024: Vasiliki Alexandri voted best female artistic swimmer
Austria’s 27-year-old Vasiliki Alexandri has been named best female artistic swimmer in the 2024 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards – a year after her triplet sisters Anna-Maria and Eirini-Marina won the same honour. In a season when her sisters combined to finish one place off the Olympic podium in the duet event, Alexandri […]
2024 in review: Britain, The Netherlands and Spain earn historic Olympic honours in women’s artistic swimming
Britain and The Netherlands did Europe proud at the Paris 2024 Games as they secured silver and bronze respectively in the women’s duet event, thus claiming their nation’s first Olympic medals in artistic swimming. British pairing Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe totalled 558.5367 points behind China’s world champions Wang Qianyi and Wang Liuyi, who scored […]
