Anna Korakaki
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| Nationality | Greek | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 April 1996 Drama, Greece |
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| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Air pistol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anna Korakaki (Greek: Άννα Κορακάκη; born 8 April 1996) is a Greek Olympic shooter.[1]
Career
She represented Greece at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the 25m pistol shot event and a Bronze medal in the 10m air pistol shooting event. The Gold medal she won for Greece was following a hiatus since the last Gold medal won for Greece, at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her Olympic distinctions include: she was the first Greek woman in her maiden appearance at an Olympics (then aged 20 years) to be a multi-Olympic medalist for Greece at the same Olympiad, a fete last achieved by a Greek Olympic athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics with Konstantinos Tsiklitiras.[2] In the 25m fire pistol event, Korakaki of Greece and Monika Karsch of Germany would vie for Gold medalist, each holding a tie or the lead with each succeeding round, and Korakaki would defeat Karsch after [3] She won three rounds thus getting a lead of 6–0, then the Germany rival won the next three rounds and thus bringing it to a 6–6 tie. In the last round, Germany missed 1st and 3rd shots of the 5 shots, and Korakaki had missed her 4th shot, but she hit her 5th shot and won 8–6, taking the gold and avoiding a tie.[4]
Korakaki has competed since 2009. She is with the Orion Shooting Club of Thessaloniki [5] and she is coached by her father and retired shooter Tassos Korakakis.[6] She is an undergraduate student in Special Education at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki.[7]
On 12 March 2020, she became the first woman to be the originating Olympic athlete torchbearer of an Olympic torch relay.[8]
International results
Korakaki has been a member of the Greece national shooting team since 2010.[6] Distinguished results include:[7]
- Gold and Bronze medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
- Gold medal (10 m air pistol) and 9th place (25 m air pistol) at the 2018 World Championships in Changwon.
- Gold and two times Bronze medalist at the 2018 World Cup in Fort Benning.
- Gold medalist at the 2018 World Cup Final in Guadalajara.
- Gold and Silver medalist at the 2016 World Cup in Bologna. In the 25m pistol, she won a Gold medal with an overall score of 39/50, beating South Korean Jangami Kim and Ukrainian Olena Kostevich who respectively won the Silver and Bronze medals.[9]
- Gold and Silver medalist at the 2019 European Games in Minsk.
- Gold and Bronze medalist at the 2017 World Cup Final in Munich.
- Gold and Silver medalist at the 2016 Junior World Cup in Suhl.
- Gold medalist at the 2023 European Championship in Tallinn.[10]
- Gold medalist at the 2014 European Junior Championship in Moscow.
- Gold medalist at the 2023 World Cup in Baku.[11]
- Two time Silver medalist at the 2016 World Cup in Baku.
- Silver medalist at the 2015 European Games in Baku.
- Silver medalist at the 2015 World Cup Final in Munich.
- Silver medalist at the 2011 European Junior Championship in Belgrade.
- Bronze medalist at the 2015 World Cup in Fort Benning.
- Bronze medalist at the 2014 World Junior Championship in Granada.
Records
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Personal life
After the Olympics, Anna Korakaki got a tattoo of the Olympic rings and the year on her right hand to remember her Rio achievements.[12]
References
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External links
- Anna Korakaki at the International Shooting Sport FederationLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Anna Korakaki at OlympediaLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Anna Korakaki at Olympics.comLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Anna Korakaki at the Hellenic Olympic Committee
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