Eleni Kosti
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Full name | Eleni Kosti | ||||||||||||||
National team | Greece | ||||||||||||||
Born | Lamia, Greece | 6 November 1985||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
Club | Olympiakos Athina[1] | ||||||||||||||
Coach | Markos Mantaloufas[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Eleni Kosti (Greek: Ελένη Κωστή; born November 6, 1985) is a Greek former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1][2] She represented her nation Greece in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008), and also won a bronze medal as part of the freestyle relay team at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain.[3] Kosti trained throughout her swimming career for Olympiakos sports league in Athens under the tutelage of her coach Markos Mantaloufas.
Kosti made her Olympic debut as part of the relay team in the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle with Zoi Dimoschaki, Martha Matsa and favorite Nery Mantey Niangkouara, when Greece hosted the historic modern Games for the second time in Athens. She swam the anchor leg on the outside lane in heat two, but her team was disqualified due to an early relay takeoff by Matsa.[4][5]
In 2005, Kosti helped her Greek teammates Dimoschaki and 2000 Olympians Aikaterini Bliamou and Zampia Melachroinou atone from their Olympic disqualification in Athens to relish for a bronze-medal victory with a 400-metre freestyle relay final time of 3:49.70 at the Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain.[3]
On her second Olympics in
References
- ^ Beijing 2008. Archived from the originalon 17 September 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Eleni Kosti". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
- ^ a b Πρεμιέρα της κολύμβησης στους Μεσογειακούς [Swimming has officially started at the Mediterranean Games] (in Greek). Kathimerini. 24 June 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the originalon 28 December 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- Swimming World Magazine. p. 48. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- Swimming World Magazine. p. 52. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ Κωστή και Γιαννούλης σφράγισαν τα διαβατήριά τους για Πεκίνο [Kosti and Giannotis had finally booked their passports to Beijing] (in Greek). In.gr. 17 May 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- NBC Olympics. Archived from the originalon 21 August 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
- ^ Κολύμβηση: Παγκόσμιο ρεκόρ η Πελεγκρίνι στα προκριματικά των 200μ. ελεύθερο [Swimming: Federica Pellegrini breaks the world record in the 200m freestyle heats] (in Greek). Naftemporiki.gr. 17 May 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- NBC Olympics. Archived from the originalon 21 August 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
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