Greek
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: Βαρβάρα Φίλιου; born December 29, 1994, in
Attiki
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Greece
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Greek
Greek may refer to:
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individual
rhythmic gymnast
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and coach. She is an eight-time (2008-2016) Greek National All-around Champion. She is one of Greece's most successful rhythmic gymnasts.
Personal life
Filiou's mother Eleonora Marinova is a former Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast and also competed at national level in Greece gymnastics. Filiou took up rhythmic gymnastics at age seven.
Career
Filiou has been a member of the Greek National gymnastics team since 2008 and made her senior debut in 2010.
She spends part-time of her training season in Novogorsk in
Moscow
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Moscow
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Montpellier
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France
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where she qualified for the All-around finals and finished 23rd. She won the silver in all-around at the 2012 Kalamata Cup ahead of
Ganna Rizatdinova
Hanna Serhiivna RizatdinovaAlternatively spelled as ''Ganna Rizatdinova'' or ''Anna Rizatdinova''. ( ua, Ганна Сергіївна Різатдінова; born 16 July 1993) is a Ukrainian individual rhythmic gymnast. In the all-around event ...
2012 Olympics
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Vienna
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Austria
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, Filiou qualified to her first event final in ribbon where she finished 8th. She finished 10th in all-around at the
2013 Summer Universiade
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in
Kazan
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, Russia. She won the silver medal in all-around at the
2013 Mediterranean Games
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. She then competed at the 2013 World Championships where she qualified to her first event final in ribbon finishing 4th behind Belarusian
Melitina Staniouta
Melitina Dmitryevna Staniouta ( be, Меліціна Дзмітрыеўна Станюта, russian: Мелитина Дмитриевна Станюта; born 15 November 1993) is a Belarusian retired individual rhythmic gymnast.Worlds behind of Ukrainian
Alina Maksymenko
Alina Oleksandrivna Maksymenko ( ua, Аліна Олександрівна Максименко, born 10 July 1991) is a retired individual rhythmic gymnast.
Career
In 2008, Maksymenko participated as a member of the Ukrainian Group at the ...
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In 2014, Filiou started her season competing at the 2014 Holon Grand Prix where she finished 13th in the all-around. On May 3–5, Filiou then competed at the 2014 Kalamata Cup and won the all-around silver behind
Melitina Staniouta
Melitina Dmitryevna Staniouta ( be, Меліціна Дзмітрыеўна Станюта, russian: Мелитина Дмитриевна Станюта; born 15 November 1993) is a Belarusian retired individual rhythmic gymnast.2014 Corbeil-Essonnes World Cup and finished 6th in all-around behind
Katsiaryna Halkina
Katsiaryna Aliaksandraŭna Halkina ( be, Кацярына Аляксандраўна Галкіна; russian: Екатерина Александровна Галкина; born 25 February 1997) is a retired Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnas ...
and qualified to 3 event finals. On June 10–15, Filiou competed at the 2014 European Championships and finished 16th in all-around. On August 8–10, Filiou finished 6th in all-around at the 2014 Sofia World Cup and qualified to all 4 event finals for the first time in her World Cup series competition. On September 5–7, at the 2014 World Cup Final in
Kazan
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, Russia, after a series of errors in all 4 apparatus left Filiou finishing 32nd in all-around finals. On September 22–28, Filiou competed at the 2014 World Championships where she finished 20th in the all-around finals.
In 2015, Filiou began the season competing at the 2015 Moscow Grand Prix finishing 22nd in the all-around. On March 21–22, Filiou competed at the 2015 Thiais Grand Prix finishing 11th in the all-around behind Canada's Patricia Bezzoubenko. On April 10–12, Filiou finished 15th in the all-around at the 2015 Pesaro World Cup. Filiou competed at the 2015 Holon Grand Prix finishing 17th in all-around. On June 15–21, Filiou competed at the inaugural 2015 European Games where she finished 14th in the all-around. In August, Filiou finished 17th in the all-around at the 2015 Sofia World Cup. At the 2015 World Cup Final in
Kazan
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, Filiou finished 13th in the all-around and qualified to ribbon finals finishing in 6th place. On September 9–13, Filiou competed at the 2015 World Championships in
Stuttgart
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where she qualified to 1 apparatus final finishing 8th in ribbon (17.633). In the All-around finals, Filiou finished in 14th place with a total of 69.449 points.
In 2016 Season, Filiou competed at the 30th Thiais Grand Prix event in
Paris
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, where she finished 17th in the all-around. On April 1–3, Filiou competed at the 2016 Pesaro World Cup where she finished a disappointing 37th in the all-around. On May 27–29, Filiou finished 8th in the all-around at the 2016 Sofia World Cup with a total of 70.350 points, she qualified to 3 apparatus finals. On June 17–19, Filiou competed at the 2016 European Championships where she finished in 14th place. On July 8–10, Filiou then finished 10th in the all-around at the 2016 Kazan World Cup with a total of 70.950 points - a personal best score for Filiou, she also qualified in the hoop finals finishing in 7th place. On August 19–20, Filiou competed at the
2016 Summer Olympics
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held in
Rio de Janeiro
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International Federation of Gymnastics
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