KYRIDOU Maria

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	2-
2018	Buenos Aires, ARG	1

World Championships

Year	Location	2-
2019	Linz, AUT	11

European Championships

Year	Location	2-
2021	Varese, ITA	4
2020	Poznan, POL	3
2019	Lucerne, SUI	5

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
10	Single Sculls	2021	Lucerne, SUI	8:01.13

World Championships Under 23

Year	Location	2-
2019	Sarasota, FL, USA	1
2018	Poznan, POL	4

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	2-	2x
2018	Racice, CZE	1	-
2017	Trakai, LTU	-	12

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, EXC - Excluded

Reading, learning languages, playing board games. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Athlete, Student

English, Greek

Nautical Club of Thessaloniki [Greece]

Ioannis Chrisopoulos [club], GRE; Giorgos Fotou [national], GRE; Giovanni Postiglione [national], ITA

Her older sister Anneta has competed for Greece in rowing and won gold in double sculls at the 2019 U23 World Championships in Sarasota, FL, United States of America. (agonasport.com, 22 Oct 2019; worldrowing.com, 01 Sep 2019; amna.gr, 08 Feb 2019; Athlete, 23 Jul 2021; SportsDeskOnline, 24 Jul 2021)

She took up the sport at age nine at the Nautical Club of Thessaloniki in Greece. (ethnos.gr, 28 Jul 2019; Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

"I started rowing with my sister Anneta. I was the little sister and I always copied what she did. After she started rowing, I followed in her footsteps." (amna.gr, 08 Feb 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram team profile, 08 Aug 2020)

Winning gold in the women's pair at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and securing an Olympic quota spot for Greece in the women's pair at the 2019 World Championships in Linz-Ottensheim, Austria. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Greek rower [and her sister] Anneta Kyridou. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Coach Ioannis Chrisopoulos, and her family. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

"You can do it and you can always break your limits." (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

In December 2018 she and her crewmate Christina Bourmpou were named Rising Rowing Talents by the Panhellenic Athletes Association. (navysports.gr, 20 May 2019)