Alexandros Evgenios Gounas (born 3 October 1989) is a Greek

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

player. He is member of the

Greece men's national water polo team The Greece men's national water polo team represents Greece in international men's water polo competitions and it is organized and run by the Hellenic Swimming Federation. Greece has a long tradition of strong presence at international level, wit ...

since 2008 and won a bronze medal at the 16th

FINA World Championships The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events ar ...

and competed at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

. He plays for Greek powerhouse

Olympiacos Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number ...

, with whom he won the

2017–18 LEN Champions League The 2017–18 LEN Champions League was the 55th edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs. Overview Team allocation 12 teams are directly qualified for the Preliminary round (TH: Champions League title holders). Phases and ...

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...

.Alexandres Gounas
. nbcolympics.com Moreover in his collection are 6 Greek Championships and 6 Greek Cups in which four times voted Most Valuable Player. (2011-2012

NC Vouliagmeni NO Vouliagmeni or "NOV" (Greek: Ναυτικός Όμιλος Βουλιαγμένης, "NOB" = Nautical Club of Vouliagmeni) is a major aquatic sports club, founded by local sportsmen in 1937 in the seaside resort of Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece. ...

),(2013-2014

),(2017-2018

),(2018-2019

Honours

Club

;Vouliagmeni *

Greek Championship The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ...

: 2011–12 *

Greek Cup The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second most im ...

: 2011–12 ;Olympiacos *

LEN Champions League The LEN Champions League is the top-tier European professional water polo club competition with teams from up to 18 countries. It is organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation. The competition started in 1963 as European Cup. A change of nam ...

: 2017–18 ; ''runners-up'': 2015–16, 2018–19 *

: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 *

: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 *

Greek Super Cup The Greek Super Cup ( el, Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity ( el, Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek Football (soccer), association football one-match ...

: 2018, 2019

National team

* Silver Medal in 2018 Mediterranean Games Tarragona * Bronze Medal in 2013 Mediterranean Games, Mersin * Bronze Medal in 2015 World Championship Kazan * Bronze Medal in 2016 World League Huizhou * 4th place in 2016 European Championship Belgrade * 4th place in 2017 World Championship Budapest * 6th place in 2016 Olympic Games, Rio

Awards

* Greek Championship MVP: 2011–12 with

Vouliagmeni Vouliagmeni ( el, Βουλιαγμένη, meaning "sunken") is a seaside suburb and former municipality 20 km south of Athens city centre. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni, of which ...

, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 with

*Greek Championship Top Scorer: 2020–21, 2021–22 with

Apollon Smyrnis Apollon Smyrnis Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Απόλλων Σμύρνης), or in its full name Gymnasticos Syllogos Apollon Smyrnis ( el, links=no, Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Απόλλων Σμύρνης, ''Gymnastics Club Apollon o ...

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