Gavriella Chatzidamianou or Gabriella Hadjidamianou (also Giavrella Khatzidamianou, Greek: Γιαβριέλλα Χατζηδαμιανού; born June 30, 1986) is a Cypriot windsurfer, who specialized in the Mistral and RS:X classes.[1] As of March 2008, she is ranked no. 57 in the world for her associated class by the International Sailing Federation.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Cyprus |
| Born | 30 June 1986 |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
| Sailing career | |
| Class | Sailboard |
| Club | Kerynia Nautica Club |
At age eighteen, Chatzidamianou made her official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she placed twenty-first in the women's Mistral sailboard class by two points larger of her record from Latvia's Vita Matise, attaining a net score of 195.
Four years after competing in her last Olympics, Chatzidamianou qualified for her second Cypriot team, as a 22-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by finishing sixty-first from the RS:X World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand. She finished again in twenty-first place in the preliminary races of the women's RS:X class by three points ahead of Hungary's Diana Detre, lowering her net score to 182.[2]
References edit
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Giavriella Khatzidamianou". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
- ^ "Women's RS:X". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
External links edit
- Gabriella Hadjidamianou official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 June 2013)
- Gabriella Hadjidamianou at World Sailing
- Gavriella Chatzidamianou at Olympics.com
- Gavriella Chatzidamianou at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Gavriella Chatzidamianou at Olympic.org (archived)
- Gavriella Chatzidamianou at the NBC 2008 Olympics website at archive.today (archived 16 February 2013)
- Gabriela Khatzidamianou at Olympedia
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