Anna Korakaki
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| Nationality | Greek | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 April 1996 Drama, Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Air pistol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anna Korakaki (Greek: Άννα Κορακάκη; born 8 April 1996) is a Greek Olympic shooter.[1]
Career
She represented Greece at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the 25m pistol shot event and a Bronze medal in the 10m air pistol shooting event. The Gold medal she won for Greece was following a hiatus since the last Gold medal won for Greece, at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her Olympic distinctions include: she was the first Greek woman in her maiden appearance at an Olympics (then aged 20 years) to be a multi-Olympic medalist for Greece at the same Olympiad, a fete last achieved by a Greek Olympic athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics with Konstantinos Tsiklitiras.[2] In the 25m fire pistol event, Korakaki of Greece and Monika Karsch of Germany would vie for Gold medalist, each holding a tie or the lead with each succeeding round, and Korakaki would defeat Karsch after [3] She won three rounds thus getting a lead of 6–0, then the Germany rival won the next three rounds and thus bringing it to a 6–6 tie. In the last round, Germany missed 1st and 3rd shots of the 5 shots, and Korakaki had missed her 4th shot, but she hit her 5th shot and won 8–6, taking the gold and avoiding a tie.[4]
Korakaki has competed since 2009. She is with the Orion Shooting Club of Thessaloniki [5] and she is coached by her father and retired shooter Tassos Korakakis.[6] She is an undergraduate student in Special Education at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki.[7]
On 12 March 2020, she became the first woman to be the originating Olympic athlete torchbearer of an Olympic torch relay.[8]
International results
Korakaki has been a member of the Greece national shooting team since 2010.[6] Distinguished results include:[7]
- Gold and Bronze medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
- Gold medal (10 m air pistol) and 9th place (25 m air pistol) at the 2018 World Championships in Changwon.
- Gold and two times Bronze medalist at the 2018 World Cup in Fort Benning.
- Gold medalist at the 2018 World Cup Final in Guadalajara.
- Gold and Silver medalist at the 2016 World Cup in Bologna. In the 25m pistol, she won a Gold medal with an overall score of 39/50, beating South Korean Jangami Kim and Ukrainian Olena Kostevich who respectively won the Silver and Bronze medals.[9]
- Gold and Silver medalist at the 2019 European Games in Minsk.
- Gold and Bronze medalist at the 2017 World Cup Final in Munich.
- Gold and Silver medalist at the 2016 Junior World Cup in Suhl.
- Gold medalist at the 2023 European Championship in Tallinn.[10]
- Gold medalist at the 2014 European Junior Championship in Moscow.
- Gold medalist at the 2023 World Cup in Baku.[11]
- Two time Silver medalist at the 2016 World Cup in Baku.
- Silver medalist at the 2015 European Games in Baku.
- Silver medalist at the 2015 World Cup Final in Munich.
- Silver medalist at the 2011 European Junior Championship in Belgrade.
- Bronze medalist at the 2015 World Cup in Fort Benning.
- Bronze medalist at the 2014 World Junior Championship in Granada.
Records
| Current world records held in 10 meter air pistol | ||||||||
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| Women | Qualification | 591 |  Jiang Ranxin (CHN)
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Oct 15, 2022 | Cairo (EGY) | edit | ||
Personal life
After the Olympics, Anna Korakaki got a tattoo of the Olympic rings and the year on her right hand to remember her Rio achievements.[12]
References
- ^ "Anna Korakaki". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ "Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες: Άννα Κορακάκη, η πρώτη μετά τον θρυλικό Τσικλιτήρα". www.newsit.gr. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
- ^ "Rio 2016 25m pistol (30+30 shots) women – Olympic Shooting". International Olympic Committee. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ "Korakaki fends off Karsch for 25m pistol gold". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ "Η Αννα Κορακάκη βραβεύεται στη γιορτή του ΠΣΑΤ". www.draminaspor.gr. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Ρίο 2016: Ποια είναι η 20χρονη Ολυμπιονίκης Άννα Κορακάκη". cnn.gr. 7 August 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ a b International Shooting Sport Federation. "Portrait of the Athlete". Archived from the original on 10 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ "Anna Korakaki chosen to be the first torchbearer of the Tokyo 2020 Torch relay - Olympic News". International Olympic Committee. 8 February 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ "Tiro a segno, Finali Coppa del Mondo Bologna 2016: la greca Anna Korakaki regina della pistola 25m". OA (in Italian). Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ de Villiers, Ockert (10 March 2023). "2023 European Championships 10m: Damir Mikec and Anna Korakaki strike air pistol gold". Olympics.com.
- ^ ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol - Baku 2023 - RESULTS, 10m AIR PISTOL WOMEN, FINAL
- ^ "Εκανε τατουάζ για να θυμάται το χρυσό μετάλλιο στους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες η Κορακάκη [εικόνα] | Ελεύθερος Τύπος". Ελεύθερος Τύπος (in Greek). 5 January 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
External links
- Anna Korakaki at the International Shooting Sport Federation
- Anna Korakaki at Olympedia
- Anna Korakaki at Olympics.com
- Anna Korakaki at the Hellenic Olympic Committee
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- 1996 births
- Living people
- Greek female sport shooters
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Greece
- Olympic gold medalists for Greece
- Olympic medalists in shooting
- Olympic shooters for Greece
- Sportspeople from Drama, Greece
- Shooters at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
- Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- ISSF pistol shooters
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece
- Mediterranean Games medalists in shooting
- Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
- Shooters at the 2015 European Games
- Shooters at the 2019 European Games
- European Games medalists in shooting
- European Games gold medalists for Greece
- European Games silver medalists for Greece
- University of Macedonia alumni
- People from Nigrita
- Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Greek women
- Shooters at the 2023 European Games