Theodora Gkountoura
Greek fencer (born 1997)
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Theodora Gkountoura (Greek: Θεοδώρα Γκουντούρα; born 14 March 1997) is a Greek sabre fencer.
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| Born | 14 March 1997 Athens, Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fencing career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon | Sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | A.O. Ariston Paianias | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 3rd (sabre, 2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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She participated at the 2019 World Fencing Championships, winning a bronze medal.[2][3] She won again the bronze medal at the 2023 World Fencing Championships, defeated in the semi-final by the world champion Misaki Emura by 15–14.[4]
She has won the silver medal in the Orléans Grand Prix 2021 and the gold medal in the Grand Prix of Seoul in 2023.[3]
As for the World Cup, she has won the bronze medal in Athens in 2020, the silver medal in Tbilisi in 2022, the bronze medal in Algiers in 2022, the silver medal in Tashkent in 2023, the bronze medal in Athens in 2023, the bronze medal in Sint-Niklaas in 2023, the bronze medal in Algiers in 2023 and the bronze medal in Sint-Niklaas in 2024.[3]
She has also won the bronze medal at the individual women's sabre event of the 2023 European Games[5]
So far, she has reached a career highest ranking of 3rd place in the 2021–2022 season.[3]
She has been a fencing athlete of AEK multi-sport club,[3][6] but she's currently an athlete of A.O. Ariston Paianias.[7][8] She has been 4 times champion in sabre in Greece.[9]
Medal record
World Championship
Grand Prix
| Year | Location | Event | Position |
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| 2021 | Orléans, France | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd |
| 2023 | Seoul, South Korea | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st |
World Cup
| Year | Location | Event | Position |
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| 2020 | Athens, Greece | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
| 2022 | Tbilisi, Georgia | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd |
| 2022 | Algiers, Algeria | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
| 2023 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd |
| 2023 | Athens, Greece | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
| 2023 | Sint-Niklaas, Belgium | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
| 2023 | Algiers, Algeria | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
| 2024 | Sint-Niklaas, Belgium | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd |
European Games
European Championship
National Championship
| Year | Location | Event | Position |
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| 2016 | OAKA, Athens | Individual Women's Sabre | 2nd [9] |
| 2017 | OAKA, Athens | Individual Women's Sabre | 3rd [9] |
| 2018 | OAKA, Athens | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st [9] |
| 2019 | OAKA, Athens | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st [9] |
| 2020 | OAKA, Athens | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st [9] |
| 2021 | OAKA, Athens | Individual Women's Sabre | 1st [9] |
Personal
Her paternal origin is from Krania, Elassona and her maternal hails from Garazo, Rethymno[12]
