PESIRIDOU Elisavet

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100m Hurdles
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Round 1 (13.10)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	100m Hurdles
2017	London, GBR	Heats (13.14)

European Championships

Year	Location	100m Hurdles	4 x 100m
2018	Berlin, GER	SF (13.00)	Heats (44.48)

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
4	2017	100m Hurdles	World Challenge	Ostrava, CZE	13.08
8	2017	100m Hurdles	World Challenge	Hengelo, NED	13.40

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	60m Hurdles
2018	Birmingham, GBR	Heats (DNF)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Athlete

English, Greek

Ioanna Siomou [national], GRE

In 2019 she missed four months due to a leg injury. She was recommended to undergo surgery but decided not to. "I insisted in not having surgery because I knew my leg would not be the same afterwards." (sport24.gr, 31 Mar 2020; katerinisport.gr, 03 Oct 2019)

Prior to the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England, she contracted a virus and was hospitalised after developing a fever. She immediately went to compete in Birmingham after leaving the hospital and ended up falling during the 60m hurdles. "After I was released from the hospital, I went home weak and exhausted. But then I packed my bags and flew to Birmingham. I flew on Thursday, and raced the next day. I had not trained for eight days. I felt good in the warm-up, but I lost my strength during the race." (katerinisport.gr, 03 Oct 2019)

She took up athletics at age 11. (katerinisport.gr, 03 Oct 2019)

Her parents sent her to a track. "What I remember for sure is that I did not begin by choice. I wanted to do ballet. My parents wanted me to do athletics, but I did not want to. But my first coach Nikos Mantzolis got me to try the hurdles, and as soon as I did I got excited. That was it. I stuck with it ever since." (sport24.gr, 31 Mar 2020; katerinisport.gr, 03 Oct 2019)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sport24.gr, 31 Mar 2020)

Competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (newn.gr, 25 Jan 2021; katerinisport.gr, 03 Oct 2019)

Greek athlete Voula Patoulidou. (katerinisport.gr, 03 Oct 2019)

Coach Nikos Mantzolis. (katerinisport.gr, 03 Oct 2019)