Sofia Papadopoulou
Bronze medal, August 17, 2008, Sofia Bekatorou – Sofia Papadopoulou – Virginia Kravarioti, Cat. Yngling. Beijing 2008
After the departure of Aimilia Tsoulfa, Sofia Bekatorou decided to start in Yngling with Sofia Papadopoulou and Virginia Kravarioti. Very quickly the Greek champions found the chemistry of their collaboration and despite predictions to the contrary, they won the bronze medal with absolute fairness. A distinction that could be claimed by other teams until the last race, the 7th race. The girls kept the third place and the bronze medal with great tenacity and will.
Final Ranking: Great Britain (Ayton, Webb, Wilson) 24 points Netherlands (Mulder, Bess, Witteveen) 31 Greece (Bekatorou, Papadopoulou, Kravarioti) 48 Germany (Schuemann, Hoepfner, Bleck) 56 France (Le Heley, Lepesant, Gerecht) 56 Russia (Skudina, Krutskikh, Ivanova) 56 USA (Barkow, Howie, Capozzi) 61 China (Song, Yu, Li) 63
They said..
“The results speak for themselves. We were the best in these games. The gold medal is not just the result of four years of hard work. Until Sydney it was four more years, but there we did not manage to achieve the award. After Sofia’s injury, we worked hard for three months, gained more technical knowledge, and all that made us even more united”
August 21 2004
