The Greek mixed 4x100m medley relay team delivered an outstanding performance at the European Junior Swimming Championships in Samorin, Slovakia, securing 5th place while breaking their own national record for the second time in a day.
The quartet of Nikolaos Papatheodorou (backstroke, 55.40), Vangelis Doumas (breaststroke, 59.40), Nefeli Bilana (butterfly, 1:01.25), and Despina Pyrili (freestyle, 55.98) clocked 3:52.03, shaving off two seconds from their previous national record (3:54.13) set in the morning preliminaries.
Key Highlights:
- Doumas stunned with a 59.40 breaststroke split, nearing a sub-minute individual performance.
- Papatheodorou (16) and Bilana (15) showed strong potential for faster times.
- Pyrili (17) anchored with a solid freestyle leg despite it not being her primary stroke.
Medal Standings
- Gold: Great Britain (3:47.07, European Junior Record)
- Silver: Italy (3:50.30)
- Bronze: Poland (3:50.32)
- Sweden (3:51.86) finished just ahead of Greece.
The swimmers now shift focus to individual events:
- Doumas defends his 100m breaststroke title (enters as 3rd fastest).
- Papatheodorou eyes the 100m backstroke final (6th seed).
- Bilana competes in 50m butterfly, alongside teammate Ilektra Magotsiou.
- Pyrili races in 100m backstroke with Garyfallia Charokopou.
- Other Greeks in action: Nikolas Spatharakis (100m freestyle), Konstantina-Andrianna Govari & Alexandra Doxiadi (100m breaststroke), and Christos Dimanopoulos, Georgios Kalandros & Dimitris Papadopoulos (50m butterfly).
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