Evangelia Platanioti ( gr, Ευαγγελία Πλατανιώτη; born 9 August 1994) is a Greek artistic swimmer. She competed in the women's duet at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's duet where her partner was Evangelia Papazoglou. They finished in 10th place.

Career

In 2018, Platanioti and Papazoglou finished in 6th place in the duet technical routine at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships. In the duet free routine they finished in 5th place. Between 2017 and 2022, she has won 9 medals (1 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze) in FINA Artistic Swimming World Series. In May 2021, she won two medals (1 silver and 1 bronze) at the 2020 European Championships in both Solo technical and Solo free held in Budapest, Hungary. She is the first-ever Greek artistic swimmer to claim 2 medals in the same European Championships. Shortly before the

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, she was tested positive for

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but after few days, she tested negative and she made it through Tokyo to compete in the Games. However, few hours after her Duet Technical performance, more cases were announced within the Greek artistic swimming team which resulted in the withdrawal of the entire team from the Games. In June 2022, she won two bronze medals in both Solo technical and Solo free at the 2022 World Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. She is the first-ever Greek artistic swimmer to win a medal in the

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and to claim 2 medals in the same World Championships.

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