Anna Korakaki
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Greek |
| Born | 8 April 1996 Drama, Greece |
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Greece |
| Sport | Shooting |
| Event | Air pistol |
Medal record | |
Anna Korakaki (Greek: Άννα Κορακάκη, born 8 April 1996) is a Greek shooter.[1] She represented Greece at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the 25m pistol and a bronze medal in the 10m air pistol. She won the first Gold medal for Greece, since Greece hosted the Olympics back in 2004. At the age of 20 and in just her maiden Olympic campaign, she became the first Greek woman to win two Olympic medals in the same competition and the first Greek athlete in general since 1912.[2] In the 25m fire pistol competition, she beat Monika Karsch of Germany.[3] In this race, she won three rounds thus getting a lead of 6–0, then the German rival won the next three rounds and thus bringing it to a 6–6 tie. In the last round, the German 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 March 12, 2020, she became the first woman to be the first Olympic torchbearer of an Olympic torch relay.[8]
International results
Korakaki has been a member of the Greek national team since 2010.[6] Distinguished results include:[7]
- Gold and bronze medal 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 Bronze medal at the 2018 World Cup in Fort Benning.
- Gold medal at the 2018 World Cup Final in Guadalajara.
- Gold and silver medal at the 2016 World Cup in Bologna. In the 25m pistol, she won gold with overall score of 39/50, beating South Korean Jangami Kim and Ukrainian Olena Kostevich who won silver and bronze, respectively.[9]
- Gold and silver medal at the 2019 European Games in Minsk.
- Gold and Bronze medal at the 2017 World Cup Final in Munich.
- Gold and silver medal at the 2016 Junior World Cup in Suhl.
- Gold medal at the 2014 European Junior Championship in Moscow.
- Two silver medals at the 2016 World Cup in Baku.
- Silver medal at the 2015 European Games in Baku.
- Silver medal at the 2015 World Cup Final in Munich.
- Silver medal at the 2011 European Junior Championship in Belgrade.
- Bronze medal at the 2015 World Cup in Fort Benning.
- Bronze medal at the 2014 World Junior Championship in Granada.
Records
| Current world records held in 10 meter air pistol | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.[10]
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. 2020-02-08. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ^ "Tiro a segno, Finali Coppa del Mondo Bologna 2016: la greca Anna Korakaki regina della pistola 25m". OA (in Italian). Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ "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
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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 of Greece
- People 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
- European Games competitors for Greece
- 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