Lidia Stoupel

Reporter Intern

The swimming champion Aris Grigoriadis (on the photo) won the 200m free style International Swimming Championship. During 2005 the swimmer became a world champion in Montreal with 24.51 time for 50m, which is also a Greek international record. During 2006 he was third on the European Championship in Budapest for 100m and this way he achieved a new Greek international record with time 54.34, and on 50m he took a silver medal with time 25.14.

The same year Grigoriadis made a new Greek international record with time 24.94 on the 50m in the Olympic Stadium on the Greek winter championship. Again in the same year on the European Championship in Einthoven he won two medals – one silver on the 100m strip and one gold on the 50m strip with time 25.13. This year on the International Swimming Championship, which took place in Volos, the swimmer had a time of 25.26 for the 50m, which insures him the participation on the World Championship.

In the same championship, the Olympiakos swimmer Dimitris Hasiotis and an Egio swimmer registered international records. The first one is for 200m for men with time 1.59.90 and the second one is 100m for juniors with time 1.03.09. Together with them, few other swimmers succeeded in getting to the European. They are:

-      100m butterfly: 54.80, Fotis Koliopoulds (Panelinios)

-      100m free style: 57.92, Temida Yakovidou (Panathinaikos)

-      100m … : 1.03.09, Giannis Karpouzlis (AO Egeo)

-      100m … : 1.04.75, Maria Tzang Aris (Thessaloniki)