Virginia Kravarioti

Virginia Kravarioti (Greek Βιργινία Κραβαριώτη, * April 27, 1984 in Athens, Greece ) is a Greek Regattaseglerin. Your greatest achievements came at the Olympic Games: 2004 in Greece it reached number 9 in the Laser Radial and 2008 in China during the Yngling keelboat ( with Sofia and Sofia Papadopoulou Bekatorou ) the bronze medal.

Life

Virginia Kravarioti began with ten years in the Optimist with sailing and took fourteen years old the first time participated in a regatta. She won the 1998 Greek Cup in the Laser Radial dinghy, a slightly smaller version of the single-handed dinghy laser. The next year, she participated in her first international regatta, the junior regatta Youth Worlds in Finland.

In the next few years Kravarioti sailed continue, especially in the Laser Radial. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where there were no contests in the Laser Radial and no pure Women's competitions in the laser, she went to the boat class Europe and reached the 9th place. The following year, she succeeded again in the Laser Radial at the international regatta in Holland Netherlands Medemblik a fourth place. At the World Cup in Brazil Fortaleza she started, however, only in the less powerful class of the Silver Fleet, in which they, however, came in seventh place. The Laser Radial World Championships in 2006 in Los Angeles, 2007 in Cascais, Portugal and 2008 in Auckland, she finished in positions 18, 43 and 40 At the European Championships in 2005 Kravarioti reached in Split, Croatia 25 (according to another document 29. ), 2006 Italian Riccione 31, 2007 in the Hague, the 11th Place.

Kravarioti also began to train with the 470 world champion and Olympic gold medalist Sofia and Sofia Papadopoulou Bekatorou ( Σοφία Παπαδοπούλου ) on the Keelboat Yngling. The three Greek women in 2008 in the Spanish Blanes in the Yngling Championship, which is also open to non-European sailors, tenth (ninth in the purely European rating ). Bekatorou and Papdopoulou was already with their previous sailing partner Christina Charamountani ( Χριστίνα Χαραμουντάνη ) the qualification for the Olympic Games in 2008 succeeded in China. Although a Laser Radial competition in these games was held for the first time for women, Kravarioti then took part in the Yngling in the Games. When held in Qingdao Olympic Yngling competition, Bekatorou, Papadopoulou and Kravarioti (5th race) were in the race after an initial 10th and 12th place up to a second place to improve and eventually won the bronze medal.