Eftychia Papavasilopoulou | |
Fullname: | Eftychia Pappa-Papavasilopoulou |
Nationality: | Greek |
Residence: | Athens, Greece |
Birth Date: | 3 October 1981 |
Birth Place: | New York, New York, United States |
Weight: | 510NaN0 |
Sport: | Diving |
Event: | Platform |
Club: | DAS Drapetsounas (GRE) |
Coach: | Youri Artamonov (GRE) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Eftychia Pappa-Papavasilopoulou (Ευτυχία Παππά-Παπαβασιλόπουλου; born October 3, 1981, in New York, New York, United States) is a female Greek-American diver, who specialized in individual and synchronized platform events.[1] At age nineteen, Papavasilopoulou made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed twenty-seventh in the women's platform event, with a score of 236.79.
Papavasilopoulou represented her host nation Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed for individual and synchronized platform events. She reached into the semi-finals of the women's platform event, where she was able to perform an astonishing dive with a total score of 463.89, finishing only in seventeenth place. She also teamed up with her partner Florentia Sfakianou, and cheered by the home crowd for an eighth-place finish in the women's synchronized platform, with an impressive score of 272.40 points.[2]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Papavasilopoulou competed for the third time in the women's platform, where she scored 252.00 points in the preliminary competition, finishing only in twenty-ninth place.[3]
Papavasilopoulou is a member of DAS Drapetsounas in Piraeus, Greece, being coached and trained by Russian-born Youri Artamonov.