CHRISTOU Apostolos

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Free M	4x100Medley M
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	H (54.12)	H (1:59.78)	H (3:14.62)	H (3:36.75)

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back
2014	Nanjing, CHN	2nd (25.44)	4th (55.06)	H (2:04.45)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Free M	4x100Medley M
2019	Gwangju, KOR	8th (24.75)	SF (53.56)	H (1:59.42)	H (3:14.44)	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	SF (24.88)	SF (54.04)	H (DNS)	H (3:16.92)	H (3:35.93)
2015	Kazan, RUS	H (25.50)	H (55.10)	H (DNS)	-	H (3:37.86)

European Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Free M	4x100Medley M
2020	Budapest, HUN	4th (24.59)	3rd (52.97)	H (1:59.79)	5th (3:13.39)	H (3:37.06)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	7th (25.14)	3rd (53.72)	5th (1:57.09)	5th (3:14.52)	H (3:38.10)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	50Back
2020	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
3	2020	Men's 50m Backstroke	Shenzhen, CHN	25.01
4	2020	Men's 50m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	25.22

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	100Free	50Back	100Back	200Back	100IndMed
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	-	SF (23.64)	SF (50.91)	H (1:53.20)	-
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	H (48.19)	H (24.53)	H (52.07)	H (1:54.15)	H (54.37)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Tolis (Twitter profile, 2020)

Cars, music, watching films, going on road trips. (isl.global, 01 Oct 2020; Instagram profile, 01 Feb 2020)

Athlete

English, Greek

Olympiakos [Piraeus, GRE]

Panagiotis Velentzas [personal], GRE

His brother Yiannis has also competed in swimming at elite level. (Yiannis Christou Facebook profile, 09 Jun 2016)

He began his swimming career in 2003. (Facebook page, 24 May 2016)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (aquafeed24.com, 08 Dec 2019)

Finishing eighth in the 50m backstroke at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. (novasports.gr, 27 Jul 2019; Instagram profile, 29 Jul 2019)

"Never give up because in an athlete's career there are a lot of obstacles. If you are patient and if you believe in yourself, then one day you will reach your potential, and you will become the person that you want to be." (digitaljournal.com, 27 Sep 2020)

In 2015 he received a special award from the Greek Olympic Committee after winning a silver medal at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, People's Republic of China. He received the award again in 2019 for his contribution to the sport. (Facebook page, 24 May 2016; livemedianews.gr, 03 Feb 2020)

The Union of Greek Olympians gave him a special award in 2015 due to his sporting achievements. (Facebook page, 24 May 2016)

He won the 2013 European Olympic Committee Piotr Nurowski Best Young European Athlete award. (Facebook page, 24 May 2016)