Eleni Tampasi
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Eleni Tampasi |
| Nationality |  Greece |
| Born | 18 September 1976 Tripoli, Greece |
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Judo |
| Event | 63 kg |
| Club | Ethnikos G.S. Athens |
Eleni Tampasi (
judoka, who competed in the women's half-middleweight category.[1] She picked up two Greek senior titles in her own division, and represented her home nation Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[2] Tampasi is also a full-fledged member of the judo squad for Ethnikos G.S. Athens
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Tampasi qualified for the Greek squad in the women's half-middleweight class (63 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by filling up an entry by the International Judo Federation and the Hellenic Olympic Committee, as Greece received an automatic berth for being the host nation.[2][3] She lost her opening match to Belgium's Gella Vandecaveye, who successfully scored an ippon and gripped her on the tatami with a kuzure kami shiho gatame (broken upper four-quarter hold-down) assault at three minutes and twenty-two seconds.[4][5][6]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Eleni Tampasi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ a b Giagkonis, Giannis (11 August 2014). Επέτειος: Οι Θρακιώτες που συμμετείχαν στους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες 2004 [Anniversary: The Thracians who participated at the Olympic Games in 2004] (in Greek). Thrakisports.gr. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ^ Η νέα γενιά και η επιστροφή του Παπαϊωάννου στα τατάμι [A new generation of judoka and Papaioannou returns to the tatami] (in Greek). To Vima. 14 April 2002. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ "Vandecaveye uitgeschakeld" [Vandecaveye eliminated] (in Dutch). De Standaard. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ^ «Χρυσός» ο Ηλιάδης [Gold for Iliadis] (in Greek). Rizospastis. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
External links
- Eleni Tampasi at JudoInside.com
- Hellenic Judo Federation Bio (in Greek)
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