Anna Stylianou
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
 Cyprus |
| Born |
20 May 1986 Larnaca, Cyprus |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| Club | Olympiacos (GRE)[1] |
Anna Stylianou (Greek: Άννα Στυλιανού; born May 20, 1986 in Larnaca) is a Cypriot swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1][2] Stylianou made her official debut, as a 14-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed forty-fourth overall in the women's 100 m freestyle, with a time of 59.08 seconds.[3]
Eight years after competing in her last Olympics, Stylianou qualified for her second Cypriot team, as a 22-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the 200 m freestyle, Stylianou challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including freestyle relay champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands. She snared the third spot and twenty-seventh overall by three hundredths of a second (0.03) Austria's Jördis Steinegger in 2:00.55.[4] In her second event, 100 m freestyle, Stylianou finished sixth on the same heat and thirty-sixth overall by 0.03 of a second behind Iceland's Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir, lowering her Olympic time to 56.38.[5]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Stylianou qualified only for the 200 m freestyle in a B-standard entry time of 2:00.88.[6] She challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including four-time Olympian Hanna-Maria Seppälä of Finland and former Olympic champion Camelia Potec of Romania. Stylianou raced to fourth place by more than half a second (0.50) behind Mexico's Liliana Ibanez, outside her entry time of 2:01.87. Stylianou failed to advance into the semifinals, as she matched her overall position from Beijing in the preliminary heats.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Anna Stylianou". London 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- ↑ "Anna Stylianou". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 174. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Women's 200 m freestyle" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.