Zampia Melachroinou, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Zampia Melachroinou

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1979

Place of Birth: Piraeus, Attica Region, Greece

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Zampia Melachroinou

  • Zampia Melachroinou (Greek: ?aµp?a ?e?a???????; born January 28, 1979) is a Greek former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.
  • She represented Greece at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and later collected a total of three medals (two silvers and one bronze) at the Mediterranean Games (2001 and 2005).
  • During her sporting career, Melachroinou trained for Aris Nikaias Swim Club under head coach Antonis Pitidis. Melachroinou competed for the Greek squad in a butterfly double at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  • She achieved FINA B-standards of 1:01.50 (100 m butterfly) and 2:15.24 (200 m butterfly) from the European Championships in Helsinki, Finland.
  • On the first day of the Games, Melachroinou placed thirty-fourth in the 100 m butterfly.
  • Swimming in heat three, she edged out South Korea's Lee Bo-eun on the final stretch to grab a second seed by 16-hundredths of a second in 1:02.06.
  • Three days later, in the 200 m butterfly, Melachroinou posted a seventh-seeded time of 2:17.60 to hold off a sprint challenge from Singapore's Christel Bouvron by a small fraction of a second in heat two, but finished farther from the semifinal field with a thirty-first-place effort.At the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia, Melachroinou helped the Greeks captured two silver medals each in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (3:48.74) and in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay (8:16.14).
  • On that same year, at the European Short Course Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, Melachroinou, along with Aikaterini Sarakatsani, Nery Mantey Niangkouara, and Zoi Dimoschaki, finished eighth in the 4×50 m freestyle relay with a time of 1:44.88.Four years later, at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain, Melachroinou shared bronze medals with Dimoschaki, Eleni Kosti, and Aikaterini Bliamou in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay with a time of 3:49.70.

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