Effrosyni "Efi" Sfyri ( el, Ευφροσύνη "Έφη" Σφυρή; born January 8, 1971, in
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
) is a Greek beach volleyball player.
Sfyri competed at the
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour between 1997 and 2004 always with the same partner,
Vasso Karantasiou.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Karantasiou and Sfyri have already lost in their debut against
Laura Bruschini and
Annamaria Solazzi, from Italy. In the repechage round they won one match and lost one another ending at 17th place. A year later, they won the
European Championships in
Jesolo
Jesolo or Iesolo (; vec, Gèxoło) is a seaside resort town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy of 26,447 inhabitants.
With around six million visitors per year, Jesolo is one of the largest beach resorts in the country, and ...
, near Venice, Italy.
In 2004 they qualified for another
Olympics, this time in your hometown Athens. They won two matches in the group stage and advanced to the knockout round, but they lost against the Brazilians
Ana Paula Connelly
Ana Paula Rodrigues Connelly Henkel (born 13 February 1972 in Lavras, Minas Gerais) is a retired female volleyball player and journalist from Brazil, who represented her native country at four Summer Olympics: in volleyball in 1992 and 1996, an ...
and
Sandra Pires
Sandra Pires Tavares (born June 16, 1973, in Rio de Janeiro) is a female beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Jackie Silva.
She ...
in front of a sold out crowd.
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Greek beach volleyball players
Living people
Olympic beach volleyball players of Greece
Beach volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Panathinaikos Women's Volleyball players
Sportspeople from Piraeus
1971 births
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