Ioannis Drymonakos
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| Full name | Ioannis Drymonakos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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18 January 1984 Athens, Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kilograms (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | G.S. Peristeri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ioannis Drymonakos (born 18 January 1984) is a Greek swimmer from Athens.[1] He became the first ever Greek swimmer to hold a European swimming record by clocking a time of 1:54.16 seconds in 200 m butterfly event of the 2008 European Aquatics Championships final on 21 March 2008.[2]
In 2008, a few days before the Beijing Olympic Games he tested positive for banned drugs during a doping-control test.[3]
He came back in 2010 winning the bronze medal at the European Championship in Budapest in the event of 200 m butterfly.
In 2012 he won two more bronze medals at the European Championship in Debrecen. The last race of his career was the semifinal of 200 m butterfly at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, in which he took the 15th place overall.
References
- ↑ "200-Fly-M". LEN. 31 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
- ↑ "The ’Day of the Greeks’". LEN. 31 March 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
- ↑ "Internet trade catches Greeks". The Australian. 18 August 2008.
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