Greece at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Greece competed at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea from 12 to 28 July.

Greece at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
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World Aquatics code	GRE
National federation	Hellenic Swimming Federation
Website	koe.org.gr (in Greek)
in Gwangju, South Korea
Competitors	49 in 5 sports
Medals Ranked 18th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 1
World Aquatics Championships appearances
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Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Kristian Golomeev	Swimming	Men's 50 metre freestyle	July 27

Artistic swimming

Main article: Artistic swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Greece's artistic swimming team consisted of 12 athletes (12 female).^[1]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Evangelia Platanioti	Solo technical routine	86.1571	7 Q	86.2921	7
	Solo free routine	88.4333	7 Q	88.6667	7
Evangelia Papazoglou Evangelia Platanioti	Duet technical routine	85.6252	10 Q	86.4975	9
	Duet free routine	87.8667	8 Q	87.3333	9
Eleni Fragaki Krystalenia Gialama Maria Karapanagiotou Anastasia Koutselini Evangelia Papazoglou Evangelia Platanioti Georgia Vasilopoulou Violeta Zouzouni Vasiliki Kofidi (R) Olga Kourgiantaki (R)	Team technical routine	86.0075	8 Q	87.0863	8
Eleni Fragaki Krystalenia Gialama Maria Karapanagiotou Anastasia Koutselini Evangelia Papazoglou Evangelia Platanioti Georgia Vasilopoulou Violeta Zouzouni Vasiliki Kofidi (R) Olga Kourgiantaki (R)	Team free routine	87.8000	8 Q	88.333	8
Eleni Fragaki Krystalenia Gialama Danai Kariori Vasiliki Kofidi Olga Kourgiantaki Anastasia Koutselini Evangelia Papazoglou Evangelia Platanioti Georgia Vasilopoulou Violeta Zouzouni Maria Karapanagiotou (R) Pinelopi Karamesiou (R)	Free routine combination	88.1333	6 Q	87.6000	6

Legend: (R) = Reserve Athlete

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Greek divers qualified for the individual spots at the World Championships.^[2]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Nikolaos Molvalis	10 m platform	346.70	23	did not advance
Athanasios Tsirikos		286.20	43
Nikolaos Molvalis Athanasios Tsirikos	Synchronized 10 m platform	332.64	14	—		did not advance

Open water swimming

Main article: Open water swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Greece qualified one male and one female open water swimmers.^[3][4]

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Athanasios Kynigakis	Men's 10 km	1:48:15.4	13

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kalliopi Araouzou	Women's 5 km	58:17.2	19
	Women's 10 km	2:00:30.3	37

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Greek swimmers have achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Apostolos Christou	50 m backstroke	25.00	9 Q	24.86	8 Q	24.75	8
	100 m backstroke	53.82	12 Q	53.56	10	did not advance
	200 m backstroke	1:59.42	24	did not advance
Ioannis Georgarakis	100 m freestyle	50.48	55	did not advance
Kristian Golomeev	50 m freestyle	21.80	6 Q	21.60	4 Q	21.45
	50 m butterfly	23.51	13 Q	23.29	9	did not advance
Dimitrios Negris	400 m freestyle	3:50.81	16	—		did not advance
	800 m freestyle	7:58.99	22	—		did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	15:25.71	27	—		did not advance
Andreas Vazaios	100 m butterfly	53.41	29	did not advance
	200 m individual medley	1:59.80	17	did not advance
Andreas Vazaios Kristian Golomeev Ioannis Georgarakis Apostolos Christou	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:14.44	10	—		did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Theodora Drakou	50 m freestyle	25.19	21	did not advance
	100 m freestyle	55.50	30	did not advance
	50 m backstroke	28.48	21	did not advance
Anna Ntountounaki	50 m butterfly	26.26	15 Q	26.31	15	did not advance
	100 m butterfly	57.88	9 Q	57.99	15	did not advance
	200 m butterfly	2:13.83	25	did not advance

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Greece qualified both a men's and women's teams.

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team roster^[5]

• Emmanouil Zerdevas
• Konstantinos Galanidis
• Dimitrios Skoumpakis
• Konstantinos Genidounias
• Marios Kapotsis
• Ioannis Fountoulis (C)
• Georgios Dervisis
• Alexandros Papanastasiou
• Stylianos Argyropoulos
• Konstantinos Mourikis
• Christodoulos Kolomvos
• Alexandros Gounas
• Angelos Vlachopoulos
• Coach: Theodoros Vlachos

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Serbia	3	2	1	0	41	15	+26	5	Quarterfinals
2	Montenegro	3	1	2	0	44	26	+18	4	Playoffs
3	Greece	3	1	1	1	39	22	+17	3
4	South Korea (H)	3	0	0	3	11	72	−61	0

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
(H) Hosts

15 July 2019 09:50	Report	South Korea	3–26	Greece	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Jeremy Cheng (SGP), Gabriella Várkonyi (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 0–7, 0–7, 1–3, 2–9
		Dong-hyeok 2	Goals	three players 4

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17 July 2019 19:10	Report	Greece	10–10	Montenegro	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Alessandro Severo (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 1–2, 4–4, 2–1
		three players 2	Goals	Janović 3

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19 July 2019 16:30	Report	Serbia	9–3	Greece	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Germán Moller (ARG)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–2, 0–0, 3–0
		Mandić 4	Goals	three players 1

Playoffs

21 July 2019 15:30	Report	Greece	11–9	United States	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Germán Moller (ARG), Sebastien Dervieux (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 3–2, 2–2, 3–1
		Genidounias 4	Goals	three players 2

Quarterfinals

23 July 2019 18:30	Report	Italy	7–6	Greece	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 2-2, 2–1, 2–3, 1–0
		Di Fulvio, Luongo 2	Goals	Genidounias, Gounas 2

5th–8th place semifinals

25 July 2019 15:30	Report	Australia	9–8	Greece	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Michael Goldenberg (USA), Nenad Peris (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 2–3, 3–3, 1–0
		Kayes 3	Goals	Kapotsis, Kolomvos 2

Seventh place game

27 July 2019 14:00	Report	Germany	6–11	Greece	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Stanko Ivanovski (MNE), Nenad Peris (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–3, 0–2, 2–5
		Stamm 2	Goals	Dervisis 3

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team roster^[6]

• Ioanna Stamatopoulou
• Marina Kotsioni
• Christina Tsoukala
• Ioanna Chydirioti
• Nikoleta Eleftheriadou
• Christina Kotsia
• Alkisti Avramidou
• Alexandra Asimaki (C)
• Maria Patra
• Alkistis Benekou
• Eirini Ninou
• Eleftheria Plevritou
• Eleni Xenaki
• Coach: Georgios Morfesis

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	3	0	0	51	16	+35	6	Quarterfinals
2	Greece	3	2	0	1	37	25	+12	4	Playoffs
3	Kazakhstan	3	1	0	2	22	37	−15	2
4	Cuba	3	0	0	3	16	48	−32	0

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

14 July 2019 17:50	Report	Greece	4–14	Spain	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Michiel Zwart (NED)
		Score by quarters: 1–6, 2–2, 0–3, 1–3
		four players 1	Goals	Tarragó 6

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16 July 2019 12:30	Report	Cuba	4–20	Greece	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Ni Shi Wei (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 0-5, 3-6, 0-5, 1-4
		Carrasco 2	Goals	Avramidou 6

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18 July 2019 09:50	Report	Greece	13–7	Kazakhstan	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Sebastien Dervieux (FRA), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 4–1, 1–3, 4–2
		Xenaki 3	Goals	Zakirova 3

Playoffs

20 July 2019 17:00	Report	Greece	12–8	China	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Nenad Periš (CRO), Dion Willis (RSA)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 2–2, 4–4, 2–1
		Plevritou 3	Goals	Zhao 4

Quarterfinals

22 July 2019 14:00	Report	United States	15–5	Greece	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Gabriella Várkonyi (HUN), Jaume Teixidó (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 4–0, 4–2, 2–2, 5–1
		Musselman 4	Goals	Eleftheriadou, Xenaki 2

5th–8th place semifinals

24 July 2019 14:00	Report	Greece	4–13	Russia	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Stanko Ivanovski (MNE), Jaume Teixidó (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 0–2, 1–2, 2–4, 1–5
		Plevritou 2	Goals	Bersneva, Karimova 3

Seventh place game

26 July 2019 14:00	Report	Greece	9–11	Netherlands	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Germán Moller (ARG), Alessandro Severo (ITA)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 1–5, 6–4, 0–1
		Kotsia 3	Goals	Megens, Keuning 3