FILITISAKOU Kiriaki

Greece
Athletics
14 Aug 2000
20
Female

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ATH Athletics Women's 20km Race Walk 29

Schedule

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Start Time Location Event Status
Sapporo Odori Park
Women's 20km Race Walk Final
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Athlete
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Economics - Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
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AGS Anatoli Nea Ionia [Athens, GRE]
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Napoleon Kefalopoulos
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She first tried athletics at age seven and took up race walking at age 13. (irunmag.gr, 02 Mar 2021; xtypos.gr, 04 Jul 2021)
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She did not enjoy race walking when she first tried it. "Little by little I started to stand out and, fortunately, I stuck with it. In my early years I tried a lot of sports and slowly endurance seemed my strongest suit." (irunmag.gr, 02 Mar 2021; xtypos.gr, 04 Jul 2021)
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To compete at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games, and at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, OR, United States of America. (irunmag.gr, 02 Mar 2021)
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Greek race walker Antigoni Drisbioti. (irunmag.gr, 02 Mar 2021)
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"Race walking is a sport that combines both endurance and technique, which is very difficult to achieve. No matter how good your physical condition is, if you are not technically good, unfortunately you will be disqualified." (irunmag.gr, 02 Mar 2021)

General Interest

General
NEW COACH AND DISTANCE
She began working with coach Napoleon Kefalopoulos less than a year before the postponed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She also started competing in the 20km race walk in 2021, having previously raced in the 10km walk. "The journey was quite difficult. I have been working with my coach, Napoleon Kefalopoulos, for less than a year [speaking in July 2021] and we had little time to reach the 2020 Games in Tokyo. 2021 was the first year that I participated in the 20km walk, as until last year I was in the 10km category and this was another great challenge that we had to face. The pleasant thing was that on this journey I had so many people next to me to support me." (xtypos.gr, 04 Jul 2021)

FURTHER STUDIES
She has also studied at the Department of Tourism Management at the university of West Attica in Athens, Greece. "The combination of sport and studying is quite difficult but this year [2021], due to the pandemic and online courses, it was a little easier." (xtypos.gr, 04 Jul 2021)

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