Ioannis Drymonakos

Ioannis Drymonakos
Personal information
Full name Ioannis Drymonakos
Nationality  Greece
Born 18 January 1984
Athens, Greece
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly
Club G.S. Peristeri

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

  1. ↑ "200-Fly-M" (PDF). LEN. 31 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
  2. ↑ "The ’Day of the Greeks’". LEN. 31 March 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
  3. ↑ "Internet trade catches Greeks". The Australian. 18 August 2008.