Despina Zapounidou ( el, Δέσποινα Ζαπουνίδου; born 5 October 1985 in
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...
) is a
Greek
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race walker. She competed in the
20 kilometres event at the
2008 Summer Olympics and the
2012 Summer Olympics.
She holds two
Greek records
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
: 1:37:40.59 hours for the 20,000 m track walk and
12:35.16 minutes for the 3000 m indoor walk.
As a junior athlete, she was 12th in the 10,000 m track walk at the
2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics and fifth in the 10 km road walk at the
2004 IAAF World Race Walking Cup. She entered the senior 20 km event at the
2006 and
2008 Race Walking Cup but failed to finish on both occasions. She also failed to finish at the
2005 Universiade and the
2013 European Race Walking Cup
The 2013 European Race Walking Cup was held in Dudince, Slovakia, on 19 May 2013.
Complete results were published.
Detailed report were given. Medal winners were published on the Athletics Weekly website,
Medallists
Results
Men's 20 km
...
.
Competition record
References
External links
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1985 births
Living people
Athletes from Thessaloniki
Greek female racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Greece
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics