Greek rowing athletes and recently crowned European champions, Yiannis Kalandaridis and Ninos Nikolaidis have broken a ten year old world record and won gold in the Rowing Junior Championship in Rotterdam.
Their achievement didn’t go unnoticed in Greece with the pair receiving a congratulatory letter from the Greek President, Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
Kalandris and Nikolaidis clocked 6 minutes and 32.51 seconds to finish two and a half seconds ahead of their closest rival and break the world junior record that Romania had held since 2006.
Greece claimed a total of four medals, one gold, two silvers and a bronze, confirming the country as a major international force in rowing.
